(5) v. (A.-S.) To save; to guard. Bos,s. A game, mentioned in Moor's Suffolk Words.

BOSARDE, 8. (1) A buzzard; a worthless hawk.

(2) A worthless or useless fellow. Bosc, 8. (A.-N.) A bush. BOSCAGE, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A wood. (2) The food which wood and trees vield to cattle.

(3) Boscage, or leaf-work, in carving.

BOSCHAILE, 8. (4.-N.) A thicket;

a wood.

BOSCHES, 8. Bushes.

Bose, (1) pres. t. It behoves. (2) s. A hollow. BOSEN, 8. badger. North. Bosн, (1) s. A dash, or show. East. (2) 8. Nonsense. A word derived from the Turkish.

BOSHES, S. "The bottom of the furnace in which they melt their iron ore, the sides of which furnace descend obliquely like the hopper of a mill." Kennett. BOSHOLDER, 8. The chief person in an ancient tithing of ten families. Lambarde. BOSKE, 8. A bush. BOSKED. See Buske.

BOSKY, adj. (1) Drunken. From Boose.

R

BOST, (1) 8. Boast; pride. (2) pret. t. Burst. West. (3) adj. Embossed. BOSTAL. See Borstal. BOSTANCE, 8. Boasting; bragging. BOSTE, v. To menace.

And that he was threatened and bosted with proud words given by the Colvills. Bowes Correspondence, 1584.

BOSTEN, v. (A.-S.) To boast.
BOSTLYE, adv. Boasting. Gaw.
BOSTUS, adj. Boastful; arrogant.
BOSVEL, 8. A species of crow foot.
BOSWELL, 8. Some part of a fire-
grate. Suffolk.
Bor, (1) s. A boat.
(2) s. A but.
(3) pret. t. Bit.

(4) pret. t. Bought. Devon.
(5) conj. Unless.
(6) adj. Both.

(7) s. A botcher. Yorksh.

(8) s. A sword; a knife. BOTANO, 8. A kind of blue linen. BOTARGE, 8. A kind of salt cake, BOTARGO, or rather sausage,made of the hard roe of the sea mullet, eaten with oil and vinegar, but chiefly used to promote drinking. Because he was naturally flegmatic, he began his meal with some dozens of gammous, dried neats' tongues, botargos, sausages, and such other forerunners of Rabelais, B. i, ch. 21. BOTCH, S. (1) A thump. Sussex. (2) An inflamed tumour. North..

wine.

Ther was venisoun of hert and bors,
Swannes, pecokes, and botors.

Arthour and Merlin, p. 116.

He brozt a heron with a poplere,
Curlews, boturs, bothe in fere.

MS. Cantab., Ff. v, 48, f. 49.

BOTRACES, 8. A sort of frogs, said to be venomous.

BOTRASEN, v. To make buttresses. BOTRE, s. A buttery.

BOTS, S. Small worms which breed in the entrails of horses; a term applied by gardeners in some parts to all underground worms. BOTTA, adj. Proud, pert; assuming consequential airs. Norf. BOTTE, (1) pret. t. of bite, Bit. (2) s. A bat; a club.

BOTTLE, 8. (1) A small cask, used for carrying liquor to the fields. (2) (Fr. botel, boteau.) A bundle, more especially of hay or straw. Bottles, little bundles. Leic. (3) A bubble. Somerset. (4) A round moulding.

(5) (A.-S. botl.) A seat, or chief mansion house.

(6) A pumpion. Devon.

(7) The dug of a cow. East. BOTTLE-BIRD, 8. An apple rolled up and baked in paste. East. BOTTLE-BUMP, s. The bittern. East. BOTTLE-FLOWER, 8. The blue-bottle, a flower growing among wheat. BOTTLE-HEAD, 8. A fool. BOTTLE-JUG, 8.

titmouse. Leic.

The long-tailed

BOTTLE-NOSE, 8. A porpoise. East. BOTTLE-NOSED, S. Having a large

nose.

BOTTLE-TIT, S. The long-tailed titmouse. Northamp.

BOTTLE-UP, V. To preserve in one's memory; to keep secret. BOTTOM, (1) 8. A ball of thread. (2) s. A vessel of burden. (3) s. The posteriors.

BOTTOMER, S. The man who conveys the produce of a mine from the first deposit to the shaft.

BOTTOMING-TOOL, 8. A narrow, concave shovel used by drainers. Shropsh.

BOTTOM-WIND, 8. A particular motion of the water observed in

Derwentwater.

BOTTRY, adj. Short, stunty, applied

to trees. Northamp. BOTTRY-TREE, 8. An elder tree. North.

BOTTY, adj. Proud. Suffolk. BOTY, 8. A butty; a partner. Palsgrave.

BOUCE-JANE, S. (A.-N.) An ancient dish in cookery.

Bonce Jane. Take gode cowe mylk, and put hit in a pot, and sethe hit, and take sage, parsel, ysope, and savory, and other gode herbes, and sethe hom and Lew hom smalle, and do hom in the pot; then take hennes, or capons, or chickyns; when thai byn half rosted, take hom of the spit, and smyte hom on peces, and do therto, and put therto pynes and raysynges of corance, and let hat boyle,

and serve hit forthe.

Warner, Antiq. Culin., p. 56. BOUCHART, s. A name for a hare. BOUCHET, 8. (Fr.) A kind of pear. BOUDE, v. (Fr.) To pout. BOUDGE, v. To budge; to move. Bouds, 8. Weevils.

BOWDS,

BOUEY, 8. A louse. Worc. BOUFFE, 8. Belching. Skinner. BOUGE, 8. (1) A cask. The term is applied to the round swelling part of a cask, in Sussex.

(2) (Fr.) An allowance of meat or drink to an attendant in the court, termed indiscriminately bouch, bouge, or bouge, of court. "Bowge of courte, whyche was a liverye of meate and dryncke, Sortella." Huloet. In the ordinances made at Eltham, in the 17th of Henry VIII, under the title bouche of court, the queen's maids of honour were to have, "for theire bouch in the morning, one chet lofe, one manchet, two gallons of ale, dim' pitcher of

wine." "Avoir bouche à court, to eat and drink scot-free, to have budge-a-court, to be in ordinary at court." Cotgrave, v. bouche.

What is your business?-N. To fetch boudge of court, a parcel of invisible bread, &c. B. Jon, Masq. of Augurs.

They had bouch of court (to wit, meat and drink) and great wages of sixpence by the day.

Stowe's Survey of London.

(3) v. To project. Leic.
(4) "To make a bouge," to com-
mit a gross blunder, to get a
heavy fall.

(5) v. To bulge, to swell out.
East.

(6) v. To prepare a ship for the purpose of sinking it.

(7) s. A small beetle. Leic. BOUGERON, 8. (Fr.) A bardash. BOUGET, 8. A budget. BOUGH-HOUSES, 8. Private houses allowed to be open during fairs for the sale of liquor. BOUGHRELL, 8. A kind of hawk. BOUGHT, 8. (A.-S.) A bend;

joint; applied particularly to the curve of a sling where the missile was placed.

BOUGHT-BREAD, 8. Bakers' bread. North.

BOUGILL, 8. A bugle-horn. BOUGOUR, 8. (Fr.) A bardash. BOUGY, 8. (Fr.) A small candle. BOUKE, (1) 8. (A.-S.) The bulk; the body; the interior of a building.

(2) v. (A.-S.) To buck or wash

BOULTE, v. (4.-S.) To sift. BOULTED-BREAD, 8. Bread made of wheat and rye. BOULTER, S. (1) A person who sifts. (2) A sieve for meal. "A meale sive: a boulter: a serse." Nomenclator. BOULTING-CLOTH, 8. A cloth for straining. "Estamine. A strainer of hairy cloth: a boulting cloth." Nomenclator. BOULTING-HUTCH, S. The wooden receptacle into which the meal was sifted.

BOUMET, adj. Embalmed. BOUN, (1) adj. (4.-S.) Ready; going.

(2) v. To dress; to make ready; to prepare.

(3) s.

A woman's garment. BOUNCE, S. The larger dogfish.

BOUNCHING, adj.

swelling.

Bending or

BOUNCING, adj. Large.

BOUND, (1) adj. Sure; confident. (2) adj. Apprenticed. (3) s. A boundary mark. BOUNDE, 8. (4.-S.) A husband. BOUNDER, 8. A boundary; a limit. BOUNDING, S. Perambulating the bounds of the parish.

BOUND-STONE, 8. A boundary stone. The term occurs in a charter relating to Poole, co. Dorset, temp. Hen. VIII.

BOUNG, 8. A purse. An old slang word.

BOUNTÉ, 8. (A.-N.) Goodness.
BOUNTEVOUS, adj. Bountiful.

BOUNTIOUS,

Mine, quoth the one, is of a bountious
sprite,
And in the taverne will be drunke all night,
Spending most lavishly he knowes not what.
Rowlands, Knave of Spades, 1613.

BOUNTY-DAYS, 8. Holidays on which provision was given to the poor. North.

BOUR, 8. (4.-S.) A bower; a chamber.

BOURAM, S. A sink. Yorksh. BOURDE, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A game; a joke.

(2) v. To jest; to jape; to deceive.

Where words may win good wil,

And boldnesse beare no blame, Why should there want a face of brasse To bourd the bravest dame? Turberville, Epig. and Sonnettes, 1569. BOURDER, S. A jester. BOURDINGLY, adv. In sport. BOURDON, 8. (A.-N.) A staff. BOURDONASSE, 8. (Fr.) A sort of ornamented staff.

Their men of armes were all barded and furnished with brave plumes, and goodly bourdonasses.

Danet's Transl. of Ph. de Comines. BOURDOUR, 8. (1) A pensioner. (2) A circlet round a helmet. BOURGEON, v. (4.-N.) To bud; to sprout.

BOURHOLM, S. The burdock. BOURMAIDNE, 8. (A.-S.) A chambermaid.

Hail be ze, nonnes of seint Mari house, Goddes bourmaidnes and his owen spouse. Reliq. Antiq, ii, 175.

BOURN, 8. (1) (A.-S.) A brook; a

rivulet.

(4) 8.

(5) 8.

A boy.

A small arched bridge. Somerset.

(6) s. An arch or gateway. Bow-BELL, 8. One born within the sound of Bow bells.

Bow-BOY, 8. A scarecrow. Kent. BOWCER, 8. The bursar. BOWDIKITE, 8. A contemptuous name for a mischievous child; an insignificant or corpulent person. North.

BOWDLED, adj. Swelled out; ruffled with rage.

Bowe, (1) v. To bend; to bow.

(2) 8. A bough; a branch. BOWELL-HOLE, 8. A small aper

ture in the wall of a barn for giving light and air. North. BOWEN, 8. (1) A narrative.

(2) Early or half-cured sprats are called bowen sprats. BOWER, 8. (4.-S.) A chamber.

BOWETY, 8. Linsey-wolsey. North. BOW-HAND, 8. The left hand. To be too much of the bow-hand, to fail in a design. BOWHAWLER, 8. A man who draws barges along the Severn. BOWIE-FRAME, 8. A phrase applied to toads when together. Fairfax, Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 1674, p. 130. BOWIT, 8. A lanthorn. North. Bowk, (1) adj. Crooked. North.

(2) 8. An article used in the shaft of a coalpit.

BOWK IRON, 8. The circular piece of iron lining the interior of a wheel. West.

BOW-KITT, 8. A sort of large can

with a cover. Yorksh.

BOW-KNOT, 8. A large, loose knot. BOWL-ALLEY, 8. A covered space for the game of bowls, instead of a bowling green. BOWLING-MATCH, 8. A game with stone bowls, played on the highway from village to village. North. BOWLTELL, 8. A kind of cloth. Bown, adj. Swelled. Norf. BoWNDYN, adj. Ready; prepared. BOWNE, 8.

Bone, buttell, or merestafe, or stone, Amiliarius. Huloet. Bow-NET, 8. A sort of net for

catching fish, made of twigs bowed together. Bow-POT,

BOUGH-POT,

8. A flower-pot for

} a window. West.

BOWRE, v. To lodge. Spens. BOWRES, 8. A dish in old cookery. BOWSING, 8. A term in hawking, an insatiable desire for drink. Bowsoм, adj. Buxom; obedient. Bowsomnes, obedience.