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FOSS

Volume 9 · 55 words · 1860 Edition

or Foss (from fossus, part. of fodio to dig), in Fortification, a ditch or moat; in Anatomy, a peculiar cavity in a bone, with a large aperture.

**FOSS-WAY**, a Roman military road in England, leading from Tonness through Exeter to Barton on the Hamble, and so called, says Camden, from the ditch on both sides.