/keuh bosht"/ , adj. Heraldry.
(of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
Also, cabossed /keuh bost"/ , caboched, caboché .
[ 1565-75; var. of caboched, ptp. of ME caboche to behead (a deer) cabocher, deriv. of caboche head; see CABBAGE 1 ]