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Webster 1913 Edition
Bosporus
Bos′po-rus
(bŏs′pō̍-rŭs)
, Noun.
[L.]
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas;
as, the
. Bosporus
(formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus
, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof[Written also
Bosphorus
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Bosporus
BOS'PORUS
,Noun.
A narrow sea or a strait, between two seas or between a sea and a lake, so called, it is supposed, as being an ox-passage, a strait over which an ox may swim. So our northern ancestors called a strait, a sound, that is, a swim. The term Bosporus has been particularly applied to the strait between the Propontis and the Euxine, called the Thracian Bosporus; and to the strait of Caffa, called the Cimmerian Bosporus, which connects the Palus Maeotis or sea of Azof, with the Euxine.