Chapter L: B. bothena, baronia, aut territorium

BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.

Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.

V. ~Boiting~.

BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.

_Statist. Acc._

BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one sitter in a church, S.

BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.

_Kennedy._

Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The _bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.

_Journ. Lond._

Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.

A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_,
sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.

_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.

Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, _s._

1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called _ewe-bucht_, S.

_Douglas._

2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.

_Statist. Acc._

Teut. _bocht_, _bucht_, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum
clausum.

_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT _v. a._ To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the _s._

_Ross._

BOUCHT-KNOT, _s._ A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being _doubled_, S.

BOUGARS, _s. pl._ Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these _divots_, and then the straw or thatch, S.

_Chr. Kirk._

Lincolns. _bulkar_, a beam; Dan. _biaelke_, pl. _bielcker_, beams. Su. G. _bialke_, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written _bolkur_.

BOUK, BUIK, _s._

1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.

A _bouk of tauch_, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.

Germ. _bauch von talge_, id.

A _bouk-louse_, one that has been bred about the body.

Teut. _beuck_, truncus corporis.

2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.

_Douglas._

3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.

_R. Bruce._

4. Size, stature, S. _bulk_; _Boukth_, bulk, Gl. Lancash.

_J. Nicol._

5. The greatest share, the principal part, S.

_Cleland._

_To_ BOUK, _v. n._ To bulk, S.

Hence,

BOUKIT, BOWKIT, _part. pa._

1. Large, bulky; S.

_Douglas._

2. _Boukit_ and _muckle-boukit_ are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.

BOUKSUM, BOUKY, _adj._ Of the same sense with _Boukit_, S.

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

BOUKE, _s._ A solitude.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

A. S. _buce_, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.

BOULDEN, _part. pa._ Swelled, inflated.

V. ~Boldin~.

BOULE, "Round," Rudd.

_Douglas._

Teut. _bol_, tumidus, turgidus; or _boghel_, _beughel_, curvatura
semicircularis, from _bogh-en_, arcuare.

BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.

_Complaynt S._

BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.

_Complaynt S._

Sw. _bog-lina_, id. from _bog_, flexus.

BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, _adj._ Ready, prepared, S.

_Barbour._

_Bone_ is used in the same sense, O. E.

Su. G. _bo_, _bo-a_, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. _bu-a_, id.
_Boen_ or _boin_ is the part. pa.

_To_ BOUN, BOWN, _v. a._

1. To make ready, to prepare.

_Wallace._

2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place.

_Sir Egeir._

BOUND, BUND, _part. pa._ Pregnant.

_Douglas._

_To_ BOUNT, _v. n._ To spring, to bound.

Fr. _bond-ir_, id.

_Burel._

BOUNTÉ, _s._ Worth, goodness.

_Barbour._

Fr. _bonté_, id.

BOUNTETH, BOUNTITH, _s._

1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices.

_Watson's Coll._

2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.

_Ramsay._

Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.

BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a _bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_, habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence _bour-bourding_, jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.

BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._

1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S.

_Kelly._

"We'll never big sandy _bowrocks_ together."

_S. Prov. Kelly._

2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quantity of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.

_Statist. Acc._

4. A cluster, as of trees, S.

_Ferguson._

A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.

~Burrach'd~, ~Bourach'd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.

_Ross._

BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking, S.

Gael. _buarach_.

BOURBEE, _s._ The spotted Whistle fish, S.

_Sibbald._

_To_ BOURD, _v. n._ To jest, to mock, S.

_Ramsay._

Fr. _bourd-er_, id. But this seems to be merely an abbrev. of _behourd-ir_, _bohord-er_, to just together with lances. _Bohord_, _behord_, is originally a Gothic word, as being used by old Northern writers.

BOURD, BOURE, _s._ A jest, a scoff, S.

_Kelly._

_Houlate._

BOURIE, _s._ A hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that hide themselves there; E. a _Burrow_.

_Monroe._

From the same origin with ~Bourach~.

BOURTREE, BORETREE, BOUNTREE, _s._ Common elder, a tree; Sambucus nigra, Linn.; A. Bor. _Burtree_.

_Lightfoot._

It seems to have received its name from its being hollow within, and
thence easily _bored_ by thrusting out the pulp.

BOUSHTY, _s._ Expl. "bed." Aberd.

_Shirrefs._

The same with _Buisty_, q. v.

BOUSTOUR, BOWSTOWRE, _s._ A military engine, anciently used for battering walls.

_Wyntown._

Su. G. _byssa_, _bossa_, signifies a mortar, an engine for throwing bombs; Bombarda, Ihre; formerly _byssor_; from _byssa_, theca, a box, or case; because in these tubes, as in cases, bullets are lodged.

BOUSUM, BOWSOM, _adj._

1. Pliant, tractable.

_Palice Honour._

A. S. _bocsum_, _buhsum_, obediens, tractabilis, from _bug-an_,
Belg. _buyg-en_, flectere.

2. "Blythe, merry," Rudd.

_To_ BOUT, BOWT, _v. n._ To spring, to leap, S. "_bouted up_," Rudd. vo. _up-boltit_.

_Lyndsay._

Teut. _botten_, _op-bott-en_, to rebound, resilire.

BOUT, _s._ A sudden jerk in entering or leaving an apartment; a hasty entrance or departure; the act of coming upon one by surprise; S.

BOUTGATE, _s._

1. A circuitous road, a way which is not direct, S. from _about_, and _gait_ way.

_Ross._

2. A circumvention, a deceitful course, S.

_R. Bruce._

3. An ambiguity, or an equivocation, in discourse.

_Bp. Forbes._

BOW, _s._ A boll; a dry measure, S.

_Monroe._

BOW, BOLL, LINTBOW, _s._ The globule which contains the seed of flax. _Bow_ is the pron. S.

_Polwart._

Germ. _boll_, id. oculus et gemma plantae, caliculus ex quo flos
erumpit; Wachter.

BOW, BOWE, _s._

1. The herd in general; whether inclosed in a fold or not.

_Douglas._

2. A fold for cows, S.

_Bannatyne Poems._

Su. G. _bo_, _bu_, either the herd or the flock; armenta, pecora,
grex; Dan. _boe_, a shed, booth or stall.

BOW, _s._

1. An arch, a gateway, S.

_Knox._

2. The arch of a bridge, S.

_Muses Threnodie._

Teut. _boghe_, id. arcus, concameratio; from _bogh-en_, flectere;
A. S. _bog-a_, "an arch of a bridge or other building;" Somner.

BOW, _s._ As applied to a house.

V. ~Boo~.

BOWAND, _adj._ Crooked.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bugend_, id.

BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern.

V. ~Bowet~.

BOWBARD, _s._ A dastard, a person destitute of spirit.

_Douglas._

Teut. _boeverje_, nequitia. Or, shall we rather view it as
originally the same with _Bumbart_, q. v.?

BOWBERT, _adj._ Lazy, inactive.

_Douglas._

BOWDEN, _part. pa._ Swollen.

V. ~Boldin~.

BOWELHIVE, _s._ An inflammation of the bowels, to which children are subject, S.

V. ~Hive~, _v._

_Pennecuik._

BOWES ~and~ BILLES, A phrase used by the English, in former times, for giving an alarm in their camp or military quarters.

_Knox._

BOWET, BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern, S. _Bowit_, A. Bor.

_Abp. Hamiltoun._

Perhaps from Fr. _bougette_, a little coffer; if not allied to
_bougie_, a small wax-candle.

BOWGER, _s._ The puffin, or coulter-neb, a bird; _alca arctica_, Linn.

_Martin._

BOWGLE, _s._ A wild ox, a buffalo.

_Dunbar._

Lat. _bucul-us_, a young ox. Hence _bugle-horn_.

BOWIE, _s._

1. A small barrel or cask, open at one end; S.

_Ferguson._

2. It denotes a small tub for washing, S.

3. It also sometimes signifies a milk pail, S.

_Ramsay._

Fr. _buie_, a water-pot or pitcher; Cotgr.

Hence,

BOWIEFU', _s._ The fill of a small tub, S.

_J. Nicol._

BOW-KAIL, _s._ Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is _buys-kool_.

_Burns._

~Bow-stock~, _s._ The same. "A bastard may be as good as a _bow-stock_, by a time;" S. Prov.

_Kelly._

BOWLAND, _part. adj._ Hooked, crooked.

_Douglas._

Teut. _boghel-en_, arcuare. _Bowland_ is just the part. pr.
_boghelend_, contr.

BOWLIE, BOOLIE, _adj._ Crooked, deformed; _Boolie-backit_, humpbacked; sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S.

V. ~Beugle-backed~.

Germ. _bucklig_, Dan. _bugelt_, id. from _bugle_, a bunch or hump; and this from _bug-en_, to bend; Dan. _boeyel_, crookedness, _boeyelig_, flexible.

_To_ BOWN, _v. a._ To make ready.

V. ~Boun~, _v._

BOWRUGIE, _s._ Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention; in resemblance of Fr. _bourgeois_.

_Wallace._

BOWSIE, _adj._ Crooked, S.

Fr. _bossu_, id.

BOWSUNES, _s._ Obedience.

_Wyntown._

A. S. _bocsumnesse_, obedientia.

BOWT, _s._

1. A bolt, a shaft; in general.

_Chron. S. Poet._

2. A thunderbolt, S.

_Ross._

_To_ BOX, _v. a._ To wainscot, to cover with boards, S.

BOXING, s. Wainscotting; Sir J. Sinclair, p. 170., S.

BRA, BRAE, BRAY, _s._

1. The side of a hill, an acclivity, S.

_Barbour._

2. The bank of a river, S. _Breea_, A. Bor. id.

3. A hill, S.

_Ross._

4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country; as "_Bra-mar, Bra-Cat, the Braes of Angus;_" S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

_To gae down the brae_, metaph. to be in a declining state, in whatever sense; to have the losing side, S.