Obs. Also 4 bosyne, 5 buys(s)yne, 5–6 bussyne, 6 bussynne, busyn. [a. OF. bosine, buisine trumpet, clarion, ad. L. buccina.] A trumpet.
1340. Ayenb., 137. Þe ilke orible bosyne him went to þe yeare: ‘com to þine dome.’
1475. Caxton, Jason, 29. Jason did do sowne … cornes sarasins, buysines and other instruments. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos, xlviii. 141. Thenne beganne the bussynes and the trompettes for to blowe.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 232. Than began hornes and bussynnes to blowe. Ibid. (c. 1532), Huon, 472. The noyse of hornes and busyns.
