Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOSC'AGE, n. [Fr. boscage, now bocage, a grove; It. bosco; Dan. busk; Ger. busch, a wood, or properly a thicket or underwood; Eng. bush.]

1. Wood; understood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also a thicket.
2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees. – Cowel.
3. With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood. – Encyc.