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PREP.
among
noun
Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper.
Need you any inke and bombase?
For all of them vſe but one and the ſame forme of habite, euen the ſlender doublet made cloſe to the body, without much quilting or bombaſe, and long hoſe plaine, without thoſe new fangled curioſities, and ridiculous ſuperfluities of panes, plaites, and other light toyes vſed with vs Engliſh men.
verb
To pad with, or as with, bombase.
and though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr bodyes, though they be bombased with feathers.
the doublettes were so hard quilted, stuffed, bombased, and sewed, as they could neither worke, nor yet well play in them.”
To astonish.
For Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians all the way, so amazed us; that wee thought, never any civill strangers were bombased with such a Triumph; the noyse that Vulcan and all his Cyclops make, were not comparable to these Mymallonians.
Then oft, by night, bombase hare-hearted fools, By tumbling down their cupboards, chairs, and stools. Whate'er's in spells, or if there witches be, Such whimsies seem the most absurd to me.
Need you any inke and bombase?
WiktionaryFor all of them vſe but one and the ſame forme of habite, euen the ſlender doublet made cloſe to the body, without much quilting or bombaſe, and long hoſe plaine, without thoſe new fangled curioſities
WiktionaryThere drops not, infamous Kenell, quote Don-Quixote, all inflamed with choler; there drops not, I say, from her that which thou sayest, but Amber and Civet, among bombase ; and she is not blinde of an
Wiktionaryand though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr body
Wiktionarythe doublettes were so hard quilted, stuffed, bombased, and sewed, as they could neither worke, nor yet well play in them.”
WiktionaryFor Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians
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In some senses, bombase is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.