BUBBLY-NOSE, The bubbling of an impure fountain.

BUCK,
BOWK,

} To wash. BELG. buyken.

"She washes bucks here at home."

Sh. H. VI. iv. 2.

Bowk is more in common use. The substantive I have not heard, as used by Shakspeare. BUCKET, To kick the bucket, an unfeeling phrase for to die.

BUCKETS, Square pieces of moorish earth, below the flah or surface.

BUD, But.

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This adverb frequently concludes the sentence, as an he will do it bud," instead of " I will bud do it."

an he

BUDDLE, To cleanse ore.

BELG. buydelen.

BUDGE, To bulge.

BUFF, The skin. "They stripped into buff and began

a worslin."

BUFF, To bark gently.

"God have merey upon his soul; and now when he should have comforted Christ, he was asleep, not once buff nor baff to him ga.”

BUFFET, A stool.

Latimer.

BUFT, Elbow, or bending of the arm, from BELG. boge, a bow.

2.

The twisting of a snake. I never heard it used in this sense in Craven.

"And wrapt his scaly boughts with fell despight." Spencer. Virg. Gnat. BULL, When cattle throw up the fences, they are said

to bull them up.

BULL, s. An instrument used for beating clay into wet

2.

holes, before powder is introduced, in order to make the holes water-tight.

A sandstone to sharpen scythes.

BULLACE, A common plum; prunus insititia.

Skinner derives it from its resemblance to bulls' eyes. LAT. bulla, to which it bears a more striking resemblance than to bulls' eyes.

BULLISH, Partaking of the appearance of a bull, frequently applied to a coarse heifer.

BULL-FRONTS, Tufts of coarse grass; aira cœspitosa. BULL-HEAD, A small fish, a miller's thumb.

BULL-BEEF, A ludicrous expression applied to one who has a proud haughty look. "He looks as big as bull-beef."

BULLING, A term used by mowers, when the scythe is blunted.

BULL-NECK, "To tumble a bull-neck," is by placing the

hands under the thighs, and the head on the ground between the feet, and tumbling over.

BULLOCK, To hector, to bully.

BULLOCK, An ox, not a bull, according to Dr.
Johnson. Is it not so called from testiculis,
abscissis, rel abstractis? from A. S. beallucas, testiculi.
BULLOKIN, Imperious; corruption of a bully.
BULL-STONE, A rough sand stone for whetting scythes.
BULLS AND COWS, The flower of the arum
LORDS AND LADIES, J maculatum.

BULLY-RAG, To rally in a contemptuous way. Qu.

from bully and rage. Dr. Jamieson says that the Scotch word rag signifies reproach.

BULT, To sift. Ray uses boulted in his proverbs, which is also more generally used here: sometimes booted. 66 Fancy may boult bran and think it flour."

Ray.

BUMBLE-BEE, Humble bee. Dr. Johnson improperly derives this insect from humble, supposing, though incorrectly, that this bee has no sting. This appella

tion, in like manner, is here given to a cow without horns. Mr. Todd thinks it comes from the LAT. bombus, on account of the deepness of its note.

"And as a bitore bumbleth in the mere."

See Nares and Moor.

Chaucer W. of Bath.

BUMMELKITES, Bramble-berries. Qu. from bramble, and BELG. krieken, black cherries; these are often called black spice.

BUMP, A stroke. IsL. bomps.

BUMP, A punishment well-known by school boys.
2. To run bump, or full-bump against a person.
BUN, Bound, a bun-hedge. A. S. bunden, ligatus.
BUN, A common name for a rabbit. The word is
BUNNY, used for calling them to their food.

BUNCH, To kick, or strike with the feet. SWED. PUNCH, bunka, cum sonitu ferire. Dr. Jamieson. BUNCH-BERRIES, The fruit of the rubus saxatilis, of which poor people often make tarts.

BUR, The sweetbread of a calf.

BUR, Wood or stone, put under a wheel to stop its progress.

BUR-WALL, A wall battered or inclined against a bank,

from wall and SAX. beorg, mountain. WELSH, brig. BUR-TREE, Elder; bore-tree, as hollow as it had been bored. Sambucus nigra.

"This Lord Dacres, as the report goeth, was slayne by a boy, at Towton Field, which boy shot him out of a bur-tree, when he had unclasped his helmet to drink a glass of wine."

Dr. Whitaker, the learned historian of Leeds, who quotes this passage from Glover's Visitation, candidly declares that "he does not know what is meant by a bur-tree." This is another instance, amongst many, of the advantage of local glossaries.

BURL, To pour out ale to labourers.

who pours out the drink?

"Whaa burls;"

SAX. byrele, pincerna.

BURLEY, Rough. See Boorly.

BURN-CANLES, "To burn canles at baith ends" is to spend profusely. WELSH, canwyll. BURN-DAY-LIGHT, To light candles before dark. "Come, we burn day-light."

Sh. Rom. and Jul. i. 4.

BURN-HIS-FINGERS, Is when a person has failed or been over-reached in any attempt.

BURTHENSOME, Productive. "T'land's feaful burthensome."

BUSH, An iron hoop.

BUSH, To inclose iron in the nave of a carriage, to prevent its wearing by constant friction.

BUSHEL, "You measure me a peck out of your own bushel;" you judge of my disposition by your own. BUSK, A bush. IsL. buske. BELG. bosch.

"In tyl hys hand a busk take than."

Ir. bosco.

BUTCH, To do the office of a butcher.

BUTT, To border upon, from abut.

BUTTER-CAKE, Bread covered with butter. BUTTER-CUPS, The flowers of the common pile-wort; ranunculus ficaria. Lin. They seem to have obtained their name from a vulgar error, that butter is improved in colour and in flavour, though it is well known, that most kinds of cattle avoid this plant, it is so extremely acrid. Withering observes that beggars are said to

use the ranunculus sceleratus, to ulcerate their feet in order to excite compassion.

BUTT, Strong leather, next to bend, made of the best

cow or ox hides, the neck and rump, the inferior part, being cut off square or butt-ended; hence the name. BUTTER-FINGERED, He who is afraid of touching any heated vessel or instrument. It is not used in

this sense by Mr. Brockett.

BUTTER-BOAT, A small vessel for holding meltedbutter.

BUTTER, "He looks as if butter wadn't melt i' his mouth;" spoken of a dissembling villain, who, while he speaks plausibly, is plotting your destruction.

"Ovem in fronte, lupum in corde gerit."

"These fellows which use such deceitfulness and guile, can speak so finely that a man would think butter should scarce melt in their mouths."

Latimer's Sermons, p. 411. "Ye look as if butter wad na' melt in your mouth, but I shall warrant cheese no choak ye."

St. Ronan's Well.

BUTTS, Short lands in a ploughed field.

BUTTY, "To play butty," is to play unfairly, by purposely losing at first, in order to draw on the unsuspicious competitor to his own ruin.

BUZ,

BUSS,

A kiss. WELSH, bus, the lip.

BUZZARD, A coward.

2. A general name for moths which fly by night. BY, The point or mark from which boys emit the marbles

or taws.

St.

BY, Of. To know nothing by a person, means to know no ill of him, nothing injurious to his character. Paul uses the word in this sense in reference to himself.