To kiss. (Welsh, bus, the human lip; Gaelic, bus, the mouth; French, baiser, a kiss.)
“Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Must kiss their own feet.”
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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