to Blank, to make pale, to discourage, oppress. Blue, was a colour appropriated to the dresses H. 3, 2. Blanket, woollen cover for a bed, sheet. Cy. to Blast, to damage, blight (which no doubt - to Blaze, to unfold, open, publicate, spread Blazon, divulging, revealing. H. 1, 5. cf. Ben of particular persons in low life, as servants. TS. 4, 1. aHƒ. 1, 3. beadles. S. beadle. Hence bluebottle, sometimes a term of reproach for a servant. bild. 5, 4. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 333. Blunt, dull on the edge, or point; stupid, insensible. MA. 3, 4. TS. 3, 2. bHf. 4, 1. cHf. 5, 1. JC. 1, 2. From the Anglos. blinnan, to stop in the progress towards a point, or edge. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 175. to Blur, to stain, spot, defile. bHf. 4, 1. Cy. 4, 2. H. 3, 4. to to Board, to assail a ship, to enter it by force. Bob, taunt, scoff, AL. 2, 7. to Blear, to weep, so that the eyes are inflamed, or swell, and of consequence are dimmed and clouded. Co. 2, 1. MV. 3, 2. hence to dim, offuscate, and figuratively to deceive. Kito Bodge, to boggle, make bungling or bad to the lat. flare and flere; lowsax. plüren, plyren, to wink and twinkle with the eyes, for seeing better; plyroget, short sighted; bleeroge, plurroge, plieroge, flirroge, running eye. to Blench, to start, or fly off, to flinch. MM. 4, 5. WT. 1, 2. TC. 1, 1. 2, 2. H. 2, 2. It seems an other form of flinch, fling, flee. Blench, start, aberration from rectitude. S. 110. to Blend, to mix, mingle. Co. 3, 1. TC. 4, 5. Blent, for blended. MV. 3. 2. TN. 1, 5. Blessing of the bridebed by the priest, for to make the issue of the marriage happy, and to avert deformity, was a ceremony observed at all marriages. MD. 5, 2. S. Douce's Sh. ill. I, 199. II, 275. Blindworm, also slowworm, a little snake with very small eyes, anguis fragilis L., falsely supposed to be venomous. MD. 2, 3. M. 4, 1. germ. Blindschleiche. Bliss, highest degree of happiness. RJ. 1, 1. Blister, blain, pimple, wheal, pock. LL. 5, 2. Blithe, merry. TAn. 4, 4. He. 2, 3. MA. 2, 3. - Block, stem of a tree. Rc. 3, 7. JC. 1, 1. MA. Blowze, redfaced, fat, bloated wench. TAn. to Blubber, to swell one's cheek with weeping. RJ. 3, 3. cf. to blear work, to come ill of. cHf. 1, 4. It is paragoned to budge, fr. bouger, kin to the gr. phygō, pheugō, ital. fuggire, germ. weichen, to ily. Add, that the opposed charge, and give no foot of ground in the cited passage favour very much that simple meaning. 'Tis evident, however, that the sense at least, although not the signification, is the same, when to bodge is parallel'd to botch, patch, bungle, it. pezzo, fr. piece, germ. bisschen, Fetzen; hamb. Fudden, rags, brem. fuddeln, to make bad work, pfuschen. Perhaps both illustrations may be combined, as the genius of a mixed language would not gainsay. Bodkin, a little stabber or dagger. H. 3, 1. S. to Boggle, to stir, be in motion, and of course. Boil, butch, bump, tumour, bauch. Co. 1, 4. to Bold, to embolden, render bold, to bolden. Bolt, S. birdbold. spectre that haunts, S. Bug, which shows, that frightening in jest or sport may have been a modification of that game. So the Italians in this case cry bau, bau, or baco, baco. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 146. the Germans mum тит. to Bolt, to sift. WT. 4,3. TC. 1, 1. metaphor-Bore, bored hole, issue. Cy. 3, 2; the hollow ically applied to language. Co. 3, 1; to fasten of a cannon, metaphorically for estimation, with a bolt, to fetter. AC. 5, 2. Another form capacity. H. 4, 6. of it is to bolter. M. 4, 1. Bolting hutch, the wooden receptacle or chest, into which the meal is bolted, aHd. 2, 4. Hutch is the Anglos. hvaecce, kin to catch, lat. capio, capesso, gr. chaō. to Bore, to wound; metaphorically to torment. Hh. 1, 1. Both words from the lat. per, through, gr. peran, go through, lat. forare to pierce. Bosky, woody. B. acres fields separated by hedgerows. T. 4, 1. Kin to bush, wh. s. Bombard, a sort of cannon; a very large drinking vessel, made probably of leather, to distri-Bosom, wish, desire. MM. 4, 3. Love letters bute liquor to great multitudes. T. 2, 2. aHd. 2, 4. Hh. 5, 3. From the greek bombeo, bombaino, to buzz, bluster, Bombast, a kind of loose texture, not unlike Bona roba, Italian phrase, signifying properly to were addressed to the bosom of a lady. H. 2, 2. TG. 3, 1. because women anciently, as in our times, had a pocket in the forepart of their stays, in which they carried love letters, and love tokens, but even their money and materials for needlework. To be in one's bosom. JC. 5, 1. or of one's bosom. KL. 4, 5. to be bosomed with (KL. 5, 1.) intimate, to know the designs of one. Kin to bottom, fathom, gr. pythmen, bythos, byssos, depth, bathys, byttis, buttis, pytinē, the germ. Boden, ital. busto, fr. buste, pers. pistan, bottle. Boss, to emboss, stud. TS. 2, 1. Kin to the old germ. Bosse, ital. bozzo, bozza, fr. bosse, gr. physa, physsa, blown, bladder. Bot, worm in the stomach of a horse. TS. 3. 2. a Hd. 2, 1. to Botch up, to piece, mend, bungle. H. 4, 5. Botcher, mender of old clothes. TN. 1, 5. Bondage, captivity. aHf. 5, 3. Rb. 1, 3. Cy. 3, 3. 5, 4; servility. JC. 1, 3. AW. 3, 5. Bone. By these ten bones i. e. fingers. bHf. 1,3. Boneach, venereal disease. TC. 2, 3. 5, 1. Book, every kiud of composition, as indenture, articles of agreement. aHd. 3, 1. Hence our book is drawn ib. or indenture is written down, Botchy, impostumed. TC. 2, 1. is ready; articles of judicial examination. MM. Bottle (of hay) truss, bundle. MD. 4. 1. 2, 1. where supposed is misspoken for deposed, to Bottom, to sound (wh. s.) Cy. 3, 4. Cf. boexamined as witness. By the book, artfully, som and the gr. pynthanesthai. skillfully. RJ. 1, 5. customers, Books. To be in one's books, to be in favour. Boot, profit, gain, advantage, reward, recompense. KL. 4, 5; to boot, something over and above. M. 4, 8. Rc. 4, 4. 5, 3. Cy. 1, 6. TC. 1, 2; prey. He. 1, 2. bHf. 4, 1. Boots an instrument of torturing, used in Scotland, and in Spain. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 32. Hence to give the boots to one, to scorn, to make a laughing stock of one, to play with, in germ. einen schrauben. TG. 1, 1.- Kin to the greek bōthein, boethein, to aid, assist, pūs, foot, gr. batein, to tread. to Boot, to stead, (wh. s.) to serve. WT. 3, 2. in active sense. AC. 2, 5. Bopeep, a gaine of nurses with children, consisting in drawing near and retiring crying cuckoo, viz see, see! look, look! KL. 1, 4. Lo is from the greek būs, ox, frightening Bought and sold, proverbial expression for Boulted, sifted, refiued. He. 2, 2. to Bound, to jump, gambol (wh. s.) RJ. 1, 4; Bound, border, frontier, CE. 2, 1; bordering acre and meadow. AL. 2, 4. answering to the low latin bonna, bunda. Bourn, brook, rivulet. TC. 2, 3. KL. 3, 6; where brook is glossem, limit, boundary. T. 2, 1. AC. 1, 1. WT. 1, 2. It is the germ. word Born, for Brunn, from the gr. rheō, rhainō, to run; and the fr. borne. Bout, onset, turn, hit, in fighting, or dancing. Bow, yoke for oxen. AL. 3, 5. Bowstrings. Hold or cut bowstrings, MD. 1. LL. 4, 1. Compare brack, brake, braid, the Breast, musical voice, fine voice. TN. 2, 3. Brabble, quarrel, petty broil. TɅn. 2, 1. Brace, a couple. cHf. 2, 5. TC. 4, 5. LL. 5, 2. Brach, bitch, wh. see. Ind. TS. 1. aHd. 3, 1. KL. 1, 4. 3, 6. 'Tis the germ. word Brack, Bracke, lowlat. bracco, fr. brac, brachet, braque, ital. bracco, holl. braak, all together formed out of the natural sound of a gnarring to Breast, to front (wh. s.) He. 3. ch. dog, greek brazō, rhazō, rhoizō, rhozō, rho-Breast-plate, crosset, plastron. bHf. 3, 2. theō, rhathiazō, rhyzō. to Breathe, to let recover one's breath. bad. 1, 1. to promote free respiration, to take exercice. AW. 2, 3. Braggart, bully, boaster, swaggerer. MA. 5, Braid, deceitful, crafty. AW. 4, 2. Horne Tooke to Brain, to beat or dash out the brain. T. 3, Brainsick, distempered in the brain, mad, impetuous. aHf. 4, 1.bHƒ. 5. 1. TC. 2, 2. Brainish, mad. H. 4, 1. Brake, thicket, furzebush, thornbush. MM. 2, to Brandish, to swing, shake, wave, flourish, to Brave, to make a person fine, showy, splen- to Brawl, to sound with noise, to boil. AL. Brawn, boar; hard musculous flesh, lump or Breathing while, time sufficient fór drawing breath, any very short period of time. Rc. 1, 3. VA. 190. to Breech, to whip, jerk, flog, punish as a schoolboy. TS. 3, 1. (where breeching for breechable, liable, to be whipped) MW. 4, 1. Daggers breech'd with gore M. 2, 3. having their hilt, or breech covered, tainted with blood. So Steevens. Douce, however Ill. of Sh. 1,377. covered as with breeches. Breed-bate, one that breeds bate, hatches, makes strife, or contention. MW. 1, 4. Breeder, female, dam. cHf. 2, 1; she that breeds (compare brat), mother, bringing forth. H. 3, 1. Breeding, education. MV. 2, 7. WT. 1, 2. 4, 3. He. 3, 1. AC. 1, 2. Briar, shrub of bramble. T. 4, 1. AL. 1. 3. to Bring, to attend, accompany. MM. 1, 1. 0. 3, 1. LL. end. Brisk, blank, neat, clear, polished, trimly. dressed. aHd. 1, 3; vigorous, firy. bHd. 5, 3. Compare the gr. rhoizō, brazō, brawl, bray, bran, brach, brag, breathe, the lowsax. bruusken, brüsken, rusen, rauschen, fr. bruit, ital. brio. Bristle, halm of straw. TN. 1, 5; the stiff, starting hair of a swine. From the gr. rhittō, rhissō, phrissō; compare brustle, frown; fret, grisly, curl, hair, the germ. Borste, Bürste, brush. Brittle, fragile, frail. Rb. 4, end. aHd. 5, 4. Brize, brise, breese, bree, oestrum, gadfly, Like the germ. Bremse, formed from the sound; compare the to Bruise, fr. briser, to break small, to squash, gr. bremō; the lat. fremo. crush, (to which it is joined Co. 2, 3.) push. Rc. 1, 1. Bruise, contusion, boil. MA. 5, 1. to Broach, to spit, transfix. He. 5. chor. TAn. 4, 2. MD. 5, 1. aHf. 2, 8; to tap. aHf. 3, 4. cHf. 2, 3. TA. 2, 2; to profer, publish, pro- to Bruit, to report, noise about, to rumour, pagate, give out. cHf. 2, 2. AC. 1, 2. T'An. announce by alarum. bHd. 1,1. H.1, 2. M. 5, 2, 1. TS. 1, 2. Compare break, middlelat. 7. aHf. 2, 3. broca, tun; fr. broche. Broad, gross. TA. 3,4; quite. TAn. 2, 2. Com- Brogues, a kind of coarse wooden shoes Cy. 4, of Scotland to his friend in London etc. (5 ed. with an introd. and notes by R. Jamieson. Lond. 1822. II. 8.) 1, 73. calls them 'a sort of pumps without heels, which keep little more from the wet and dirt, than none, but serve to defend the feet from the gravel and stones.' Kin to breeches, germ. brechen, gr. brachys. to Broke, to deal, or transact a business, ticularly of an amorous nature. AW.3, 5. From the Sax. brucan, to be busy. Gr. prassein, pegraga. Broker, Bruit, report, rumour. cHf. 4, 7. TA. 5, 3. TC. 5, 10. Fr. bruit. S. to bray, brisk. Brunt, anciently brount, heat, hot, ardent assault, attack. Co. 2, 2. The germ. Brunst, from burn, anciently to bren, germ. brennen, gr. pyr, fire. S. brinded. Horne Tooke Div. of Purl. II, 167. 306. Brush, brunt, push, fight, strife, fray, shock, assault. bHf.5, 2. TA. 4, 3. TC. 5, 3. Compare bristle. Bubukle, carbuncle, bladder, blister, pustule. He. 3, 6. where it is associated to whelks and knobs. It seems the deminutive of bubo, botch pestilential sore, gr. bubōn, bombōn, from the swoln form. par-Buck, liquor or lye for washing linen; quantity of linen, washed at once. bHf. 4, 2. In a pun with buck (from the gr. aix, goat) MW. 3, 3. It is the germ. word Bäuche, from Buche, beech, gr. phe gos, lat. fagus, whence bäuchen, Bucket, spelt also boket, bouket, vessel to lowsax. büken, ital. bucato. matchmaker, pander, gobetween, pimp, procuress. TG. 1, 2. TC. 3, 2. cHf. 4, 1. Brooch, ornamental buckle, pin, loop. AW. 1, 1. Rb. 5,5. TC. 2, 1. Kin to broach, broche, pin, tongue, by which it is fastened, to Brooch, to ornament or adorn with a brooch. to Brook, to bear with, to endure, abide. Broom groves, perhaps birchen groves. T. 4, 1. From broom, kin to the gr. rhamnos, lowsax. Braam. draw water out of a well. KJ, 5, 2. Rc. 4, 1. Kin to beacon, wh. s. Buck-basket, basket in which linen was carried to Buckle, to fight, cope. aHf. 1, 2. 5, 4. cHf. Bucklers, shield. To give the bucklers, to Brow, eyebrow, front. WT. 2, 1. Sad brow, Brownists, a sect founded by Robert Brown to Browze, brouwze, browse, brouze, to knap, gnaw off. AC. 1, 4. WT. 3, 3. Cy. 3, 6. Compare the Sax. brysan, conterere, old engl. to brise. (Horne Tooke II, 292.) bruise, the gr. brykō, bryssō, whence to bruttle, brut, brutte, - again the gr. rhaō, rhaiō, rhassō, brōskō, broo, broseio, brukos, brūchos, and Buckram, linen cloth, stiffened with gum. a Hd. 2, 4. bHƒ. 4, 7. Bud, first shoot of a plant. MA. 4, 1. Compare the gr. byō, to swell, strut by warmth and wet, phyō, phyton, lowsax. Botze, fr. bouton, ital. bottone. to Budge, to move, stir. T. 5, 1. cHf. 5, 4. Buffet, flap on the shops, box on the ears, Bug, bugbear, frightful object, TS. 1, 2. WT. bus. Bulk, massiness; body. Rc. 1, 4. H. 2, 1; balk, jut of balks. 0.5, 1. Kin to belly, isl. belg. lat. pellis, germ. Balg, middlelat. bulga, gr. bolgidion, budget, pocket, fr. bouge, ital. bolgia, lat. villus, vellus, germ. Vlauss. In the latter signification it touches to balk. Bullet, ball of a gun. He. 4, 3. MA. 2, 3. AW. 3, 2. bHd. 2, 4. 4, 3. Bully, braggart, bravo, hector, braggadocchio. He. 4, 1. MD. 4, 2. MW. 2, 1. also bullyrock, bullyrook. MW. 1, 8. 2, 1. 4, 5. from bull. S. Bug. buskin) with high heels and coming up to the Busky. aHd. 5, 1. the same as bosky, woody. to Bustle, to make noise, to excite tumult. Rc. But, otherwise than. T. 1, 2. TS. 3, 2; only But-shaft, a kind of arrow used for shooting Butt, mark to shoot at. 0.5, 2. AC. 5, 1. cHf. 1, 4. From the fr. bout. to Butter, to besmear with butter. KL. 2, 4. Butterwoman's rate to market AL. 3, 2. is call'd a sort of foul and common numbers in poetry. Bum, arse. MM. 2, 1. MD. 2, 1. TA. 1, 2. In Shk's time it was stuffed with brane. S. Drake's Shk. and his time. II, 104. Bump, boil (wh. s.), bunch. RJ. 1, 3. Bumper, brimmer, brimful, topful glass. bHd. 5, 3. Kin to the germ. Humpe, from the gr. kyō, kybō, kymbō, whence kybe, kybos, kym-Buttock, rump, haunches, breeches. AW. 2,2. be, kymbos, kypellon, the lat. cymbium. The Co. 2, 1. CE. 3, 2. Compare podex, and the domineering idea of these words is that of gr. byttos. being bellied and hollow, covering, conceiving, containing. Bumbard. S. bombard. Bung, stopple for a barrel; low lived term of reproach for a sharper, or pickpocket. bHd. 2,4. In the cant language it meant a pocket, and a purse. The french bonde, bondon, germ. Spund. Bunting, terraneola et rubetra, a sort of lark, building the nest in hedges, on the earth, or in the corn. AW. 2, 5. to Buoy, to swim easily, to lift itself, to float. KL. 3, 7. From buoy, a cork, wood or tub, sign of the anchor and shallows. Burden, chorus, verse repeated in a song. AL. 3, 2. Burglary, housebreaking. MA. 4, 2. No doubt for burglayery, as burglar has the forms burglarer, burglerer, burglayer, which leads to the gr. leia, leïs, prey. Burgonet, burganet, contr. burgant, a kind of helmet, a burgundian casque. bHf. 5, 2. AC. 1, 5. to Burn daylight, a proverbial phrase appli- Burned, burnt, infected by the venerian disease. to Burst, to break, split, crack. TS. ind. 1. Burton on the heath, a village in Warwickshire, southern at the Avon, eighteen miles from Stratford. Close by Stratford the village Wilnecotte, or Wincot, renowned for its ale. Bush. Good wine needs no bush, a proverb alluding to the bush of ivy, which was usually hung out at vintners' doors. AL. epil. S. to lime. Bushel, a measure of eight gallons. MV. 1, 1. "a shoe or boot (of which the diminutive is Button. Bachelor's button, ranunculus bulbosus, carried in pocket by young men for knowing the love of their lasses by its encreasing or withering. S. Smith note to M1⁄4”. 3, 2. Buttress, prop supporting the but-end of a building, support. M. 1, 6. Perhaps from the fr. poutre. Burom, easily bended or bowed to one's will, to Buz, to hum, as gnats, flies, bees. TɅn.3, 2. Buzzard, fowlhawk. Rc. 1, 1; coxcomb. TS. By'r lakin, by our ladykin, or lady. MD. 3, 1. C. Cabin, cottage. TN. 1, 5. Compare the gr. kyō, to Cabin, to confine in a cabin. M. 3, 4. Cade, barrel, cask, little tun. blf. 4, 2. From Cage, inclosure for birds; jail, prison. Cy. 3, 3. 13 * |