Word Meanings - GREMIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BOSOM
  1. The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak. 2. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of
• BOSOMY
  Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
• BOSOMED
  Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.
• EMBOSOM
  1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser. 2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower
• IMBOSOM
  1. To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom. 2. To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom
• UNBOSOM
  To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.
• UNBOSOMER
  One who unbosoms, or discloses. "An unbosomer of secrets." Thackeray.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach