Definition of "buss"

Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book VII

I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]

'I take the privilege, Mistress Ruth, of saluting you.' ...And therewith I bussed her well.

1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1

As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 189

Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

2007, Winter 61, Fiddlehead

In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60

the Dutch whalers and herring busses

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 19, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz