Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BOS-PO'RI-AN
BOS-PO'RI-AN, a. [From Bosporus.]
Pertaining to a bosporus, a strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a sea and a lake. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute, and exterminated the Taurians. – Tooke.
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