Chapter C: B. bugul, fear, bwgwly, to frighten

BOGILL _about the stacks_, or simply, _Bogle_, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S.

_Ritson._

It seems the same game with that called _Barley-bracks_, q. v. The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.

BOGILL-BO, _s._

1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.

_Ramsay._

2. A pettish humour.

_Philotus._

In Lincolnsh. this word is used for a scarecrow, from _bogill_, or C. B. _bogel-u_, to affright, and _bo_, a hobgoblin, q. "the affrighting goblin."

_To_ BOGG-SCLENT, _v. n._ Apparently, to avoid action, to abscond in the day of battle.

_Colvil._

Perhaps in allusion to him who _sklents_ or strikes off obliquely
from the highway, into a _bog_, to avoid being taken prisoner.

BOGSTALKER, _s._ An idle, wandering, and stupid fellow; one who seems to have little to do, and no understanding, S.

V. ~Stalker~.

_Ramsay._

Borrowed perhaps from outlaws, who were seen at a distance hunting
in marshy places, where pursuit was more difficult.

BOID, _s._

_Maitland Poems._

Isl. _bode_, a term used to denote a wave agitated by the wind;
unda maris cum vadosis scopulis luctans.

BOIN, BOYN, BOYEN, BOWYNE, _s._

1. A washing-tub, S. B.

2. A flat broad-bottomed vessel, into which milk is emptied from the pail, a _bowyne_, Loth.

Unless from Isl. _boginn_, curvus, or Dan. _bugn-e_, to bend, as
respecting its form; I can offer no conjecture as to the origin.

BOYIS, _s._ _In boyis_, in fetters.

_Barbour._

Teut. _boeye_, compes, pedica, vinculum; _boey-en_ compedire.

BOIS, _adj._ Hollow.

V. ~Bos~.

BOISSES.

V. ~Boss~.

_Knox's Hist._

_To_ BOIST, BOAST, _v. a._ To threaten, to endeavour to terrify, S.

_Douglas._