Boswell–james
boswell, james
Note: Boswell has become a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann.”
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to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell. to write in the detailed manner of Boswell. Historical Examples Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) Elbert Hubbard
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a battlefield in central England, near Leicester, where Richard III was defeated and slain by the future Henry VII in 1485. noun (English history) the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned […]
- Bot
the larva of a botfly. a person who cadges; scrounger. a device or piece of software that can execute commands, reply to messages, or perform routine tasks, as online searches, either automatically or with minimal human intervention (often used in combination): intelligent infobots; shopping bots that help consumers find the best prices. botanical. botanist. botany. […]
- Botfly
any of several flies of the families Oestridae, Gasterophilidae, and Cuterebridae, the larvae of which are parasitic in the skin or other parts of various mammals. Historical Examples Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various noun (pl) -flies any of various stout-bodied hairy dipterous flies of the families Oestridae and Gasterophilidae, the […]
- Bota
Also called bota bag. a wine bag of Spain made of untanned goatskin and usually holding 1–2 liters (1.1–2.2 quarts). a wine barrel of Spain holding 500 liters (132 U.S. gallons). Historical Examples The Story of Don Quixote Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Gatherings From Spain Richard Ford The Smuggler Chief […]