BOB, To balk, to disappoint, to bob a hare. 2. To fish with a short line in shady pools in hot weather. BOBBLE, To bubble. BOBBEROUS, BOBBERSOME, Elated, in high spirits. BODDILY, Entirely, wholly. "I seem like a water-logged ship going down boddily." Dr. E. D. Clarke's Life. BODDUM, Principle, "naabody hes a better boddum." "Some pynis furth ane pan boddum to prent fals plackkis." "Had chosen so ententifely The bothum more unto my pay." Rom. of the Rose. "The boddome of ane awld herp." D. Virg. Laying of a Gaist. Minst. S. B. "Furth of the boddum of his breist full law." D. Virg. 48 p. BODDUM-CLEAN, Thoroughly neat and clean. BODDUM, To bottom. "To boddum things boddumly," i. e. thoroughly to investigate. BODDUMMOST, Lowest. BODDUMS, Dregs. BOG-BEAN, Marsh trefoil. Linn. Menyanthes trifoliatum. BOGGARD, A gobblin. WELSH, bwg. "Thou shalt not nede to be afraied for any bugs by night." Ps. xci. 5. Matthew's Bible. BOGGARDLY. Liable to take fright or take boggle, or boggart. BOGGLE, To take fright. WELSH, bwg. "Nor wyth na bogill nor browny to debate." Douglas' Pref. BOIL, The state of boiling. "Put it ith pan and gee it a boil." BOILING, "The haal boiling" signifies the whole party. BONE, "What's bred ith bone's nee'r out ot' flesh." This proverb shews the great difficulty, if not impossibility, of totally effacing innate or early impressions. "He values me at a crackt three farthings, for ought I see; it will never out o'th flesh that's bred ith bone." Ben Jonson. "Vara BONNILY, Pretty well. bonnily, 'blig'd to the." BONNY, Pretty. "How'st wife?" Frequently used ironically, as "Thou's a bonny fellow." BONNY-DEAL, A great deal. Synonymous with sum as 66 Smyling sum deal.” D. Virg. 20 p. BOOK. Bulk, bigness. S. G. bolk. "Said the Chevin to the Trout 66 'My head's worth all thy bouk." Ray. "Twenty fed Oxin, large, grete and fine, And ane hundrith bustuous boukes of swyne." BOOK, To say off book, to repeat. D. Virg. 33 p. BOON, Service done to the landlord by his tenant, or a compensation made in lieu of that service. LAT. bonus. BOORDE, Board. "It to iii. gromes for a weke boorde iiis.” H. Lord Clifford's Hous. B. 1510. BOORLY, Rough. TEUT. boer, a boor: in Chaucer, BURLY, S borel, coarse cloth. "With bran as bair and briest burly and braid." D. Virg. 99 Chaucer. F. Prol. "But, Sires, because I am a borel man.' BOOS, Boughs. BOOSES, Stalls. LAT. bos. A. S. boseg. ISL. bas. The Scotch word bowis has a more extensive signification. "Five bowis of ky unto his hame repairit." D. V. p. 226. BOOT, Something given to effect an exchange. BOOTED-BREAD, Flour mixed with bran. Qu. Bolted or sifted. BELG. buydelen, cribro cernere. Skinner. BOOTLESS-BENE, This was the question proposed by the Forester to Lady Rumelli on the death of her son. See Dr. Whitaker's History of Craven. The Doctor interprets it "unavailing prayer." May it not be derived from bootless bale, irremediable sorrow, from bale, dolor, and boot auxilium, A. S. from bote. If taken in a literal sense, as bootless bean, it will be, what is good for a bean deprived of its boot or pod? or what happiness remained to a mother deprived of her son, her only comfort and protection? IsL. bæn and boon preces. Ion: ẞwotiv. Junius. "Bootless-prayers." Mer. of Ven. iii. 3. "And bad God on her vew, And with the death so do bote on her bale." "God send every good man bote of his bale." Chau. Tro. and Cr. B. A. Chau. C. Yem Tales. P. Plou. "For hit is a botless bale." BORN-DAYS, Life. "I' au my born days, I nivver sa' sike a rascad." An expression nearly similar is used by Froysart, "I knowe not in all my lyfe-days how to deserve it." BOSKY, Woody. LAT. boscus. "My bosky acres." Shak. Temp. iv. 1. Bolt. Comp. MCCXCVIII. "Pro bosc. prostrat. per ventum." See Busky. BOSOM, To eddy. A. S. bosm, sinus. ""T' wind bosoms." "It is generally in these sinus' that bosoming winds are felt." Bacon. BOUD, Bold. BELG. boude. BOUGHT, Joint of the knee or elbow. BELG. bout, "And bouketh them at his brest." BOULDER, I BOOTHER, } A hard flinty stone. BOUN, Going, alias bound. P. Plou. In Bishop Douglas the participle is used as derived from an active verb; in Craven it is used in a neuter sense only. “Bowning me furth, quhen lo! about my fete." D. Virg. p. 61. "And yet againward shriked every nonne Chaucer Ct. of Love and in Fran. Tale. "And boldely brent Northumberlande Then dyd our Ynglish men grete wrange Percy Reliq. "And whan our parish-masse was done, Our kynge was bowne to dine." Idem. Sir Cauline. "This steid also leve we, and to sail made boun." "And serve God there this present day, The knight then made him bown; And by the miln-house lay the way That leadeth to the town." D. V. 73. Hist. of Sir John Elland. Dr. Whit. Yorkshire. Boun, to make ready, is not often used here. BOUNDER, A boundary or limit. "For thee, O Saviour, the gravestone, the earth, the coffin, are no bounders of thy deare respects." Bishop Hall. BOUSE, Ore, as it is drawn from the mines. BOUSE-SMITHEM, Small ore as it is washed by the sieve. In Cornwall it is called hutch-work. BOUT, Without. A. S. butan. This word explains the difficult passage in Shakspeare, mentioned by Mr. Archdeacon Nares, in his Glossary, "But being charged, we will still by land, Which, as I take it, we shall." Anth. and Cleop. iv. 10. It is evident that the but here is the Craven bout, without. "Touch not a cat bout gloves." Dr. Jameison remarks that the A. S. butan is the same as the Sc. but. "They that had eaten were about five thousand,” butan, wifum, and cildum, "besides women and children." Matt. xiv. 21. Wiclif. "For but I be deceived." Shak. Tam. of a S. iii. 1. Chaucer's Dream. "For but she come all woll be wast." "For but (bout) thou change thy mynde, I do foretell the end." Romeus and Jul. "So vair heritage, as ich habbe, it were me grete shame "I say treuthe to you, but ye be turned and maad as litill "all but BOUT, except. But, in the sense of privation, answering to except, occurs in our common expression one;" i. e. all, be out one; all, if one be out, "What is there in paradis, BOUT, BOGHT, Bot grasse and flure, and greneris." Purchased. Disc. of Cockayne, Vid Ency. Metrop. "Paid for harness boght beyond the see, that ys to say vi. corsetts with sallets and gawntellets and all for our man of armes bot the leg harness xlviii. mks. It a crosse 5s. lxxii. gorgetts of mayll iiiili iv. mks; vii pare of brygandorres Ls. viiid. It. a furr of foynes for my Lord's black velvet gowne and the laying on of the same vili. xvis. It. 10 doz. of lyvereyes xiiili. xiiis. iiid. |