Bósum
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - bósum
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- bósum
- Add: I. bosom ; sinus, gremium. (1) of persons :-- Hé bær on his bósme (sinu) Honorates scóh, Gr. D. 17, 9. Hí wurdon gegripene fram móderlicum breóstum, ac hí wurdon betǽhte engellicum bósmum. Hml. Th. i. 84, 9. (1a) personification :-- [Tó móder]licum bósme ad maternum (sanctae ecclesiae) gremium. An. Ox. 4162. (2) of things :-- Seó sǽ wunað on ðǽre eorðan bósme, Hex. 10, 31. Tunnena bósmum cuparum gremiis, An. Ox. 3513. II. womb; uter :-- Þý syxtan mónþe þæs þe Sct. Ióhannes on his módor bósm onfangen wæs . . . ꝥ cild his Hláford of his módor bósme on þǽre fǽmnan bósm hálette, Bl. H. 165, 24-30. Se Hálga Gást wunode on þám æþelan innoþe and on þám betstan bósme, 105, 15. þǽre méder wæs on slǽpe ætýwed, þá heó myd þám bearne wæs, ꝥ hyre man stunge áne sýle on þone bósum, Shrn. 149, 2.