With blunderbusses, taught to ride, In girdle stuck, he seem'd to be BLUNT, v. A little moving, armory.-Churchill. The Ghost, b. iv. Blunt is blon-ed, blond, blont or blunt: i. e. stopped in its decreasing progress towards a point or edge: the past part. of the A. S. Blinnan, to blin, to stop, (See Tooke.) To deaden, to dull, to render obtuse; to have or cause to have no edge, point, sharpness; no polish, no keenness; no politeness. Hence the adj. Unpolished, coarse, rude. He that doeth wickedlye, although he professe God in his I wyll help to rid her, from the oppression of her adver- Wonder they moreover at Sergius, who, by report, was three and twentie times wounded in sundry foughten fields, whose noble and glorious praises Catlline, the last of that race, blurred with the blots of everlasting dishonour. Holland. Ammianus, p. 265. This all riseth from some unmortified lust or other, which either leaves a deep blur upon their evidences for they cannot read them-Hopkins. Works, p. 756. To blunt forth, (Sir T. More,) to utter bluntly, heaven, or else raiseth a thick mist before their eyes that rudely. Then cometh undevotion, thurgh which a man is so blont, as saith Seint Barnard, and hath swiche langour in his soule, that he may neyther rede ne singe in holy chirche. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Howbeit if thou can find no proper meane to breake the tale, than excepte thy bare authoritie suffice to commaund silence, it were paradventure good rather to keepe a good silence thyself, than blunt forth rudely, and preyte them to anger, which shal happely therefore not let to talke on, but speake much the more, lest thei should seme to leue at thy commaundment.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 76. But he that bluntly runnes on head, And seeth not what the race shall be, Is like to bring a fool to bed; And thus ye get no more of me. Vncer. Auctors. The old Louer to a Young Gentlewoman. The said cape is on the top of it blunt-pointed, and also toward the sea it endeth in a point, wherefore wee named it The pointed Cape.--Hackluyt, Voyages, vol. iii. p. 204. Not impediments or bluntings, but rather as whetstones, to set an edge on our desires after higher and more permanent beauty.—Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 73. For in regard to the multitude of elements, and bluntness of angles, it is furthest off from direct and right lines. Holland. Plutarch, p. 368. -Fathers are Won by degrees, not bluntly as our masters Or wronged friends are. Frank. Ford. The Witch of Edmonton, Act i. sc. 1. The faculties of their souls, and the members of their bodies, that before were instruments of sin unto righteousness, are, it may be, blunted and become unserviceable; this maim of nature is far from regenerating grace, that doth not disable a man from the service of sin, but only sets him free from it.-Hopkins. Works, p. 475. Now push we on, disdain we now to fear, A thousand wounds let every bosom bear, Till the keen sword be blunt, be broke the pointed spear. Soon as the father saw the rosy morn, His [Noy] apprehension (as 'tis said) was quick and clear, his judgment methodical and solid, his memory strong, his curiosity deep and searching, his temper patient and cautious, all tempered with an honest bluntishness, far from court insinuation.- Wood. Athene Oxon. For what the bark is to the growing tree, Byrom. An Epistle to his Sister. Couper. Task, b. v. Why really, Academicus, the main Of all that Rusticus, so bluntly plain, Has here been saying, though it seem so hard, Hints truth enough to put you on your guard. Byrom. A Dialogue. Good Jarvis, make no apologies for this honest bluntness. Fidelity, like yours, is the best excuse for every freedom. Goldsmith. Good Natur'd Man. BLUR, v. Blare, blore, and blurr, have proBLUR, n. bably the same origin. (See BLARE, and BLORE.) Blurr may perhaps derive its usage from the Dut. Blære, (see BLADDER,) a pustule, or blain, or spot. See BLURT. But concerning innate principles, I desire these men to We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we BLURT, n. Formed upon the past part. of That name to which every knee bows, both of things in Polyperchon, who had the government of the king's per- And yet the truth may lose its grace, BLUSH, v. BLU'SHFUL. BLU'SHING. BLU'SHLESS. BLU'SHY. Lloyd. The Nightingale, &c. Dut. Blosen, blose, perhaps from Blæsen, flare, spirare; and SO connected with blossom, bloom; (qqv.) applied, consequentially,to The colours of flowers blossoming or blooming. To redden, to be or cause to be red, or rosy; blooming with redness or rosiness; to shame or ashame. At the first blush; on the first complexion or appearance; at the first look. Amphyon blusht as red as any glowing flame: Turberville. The Louer that compared his Mistresse, &c. Here's a light crimson, there a deeper one, If yet thine eyes (Great Henry) may endure To spot, to smear, to blot; to mark with any but the ears, and the parts behind them. spot, smear, or stain; to disfigure, to deface. In anger, the eyes wax red; and in blushing, not the eyes, Chaste Lidia, the favours are so great On me by you conferr'd, that to entreat Massinger. Duke of Florence, Act iv. sc. 1. And now to kill hime, know you that affect to be the onely minions of Phebus, I am not so blushlessly ambitious as to hope to gaine any the least supreme eminencie amonge you.-Marston. Parasistaster. To my equall Reader. Go to, little blushet, for this, anan, You'le steale forth a laugh in the shade of your fan. B. Jonson. Entertainments. We find also, that blossoms of trees that are white, are commonly inodorate; as cherries, peares, plumbs; whereas those of apples, crabs, almonds, and peaches, are blushy, and smell sweet.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 507. He that walketh uprightly is secure as to his honour and credit. He doth not blush at what he is doing, nor doth reproach himself for what he hath done. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 5. The pride of every grove I chose, Thomson. Summer To deck my charming Cloe's hair.-Prior. The Garland I envy not Arabia's odours, whilst that of this fresh blusher charms my sense; and I find my nose and eyes s ravishingly entertained here, that the bee extracts les sweetness out of flowers.-Boyle. Occas. Reflec. s. 5. Ref. 4 He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, Bote blostrede forth as bestes.-Piers Plouhman, p. 119 And I sodainly astonyed, there entered into the place the I was lodged, a ladie semelich and moste goodly to my sig that euer to forne appeared to any creature, and truly in t blustering of her looke, shee yaue gladnes and comfor sodainly to all my wittes, and right so she doeth to eu wight, that commeth in her presence. Chaucer. Test. of Lo He bloweth and blustereth out at last his abhomina blasphemy against the blessed sacramentes of Christ. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 3 Home runneth he with open cry, that he cannot ha justice in England, and you streight believe; and thereup cometh these often blusters. Burnet. Records, pt. ii. b. i. No. He is lyke to a prouydent and circumspect buylder, t buildeth his house not for a vaine braggue or shewe one nor to serue hym for a short whyle and no longer: but f firmenesse and stedfastenesse to stande and endure with perishynge agaynste any bloustreous storme or tempeste come.-Udal. Luke, c. 6. Indeed it is the speech of the devil, but it is likewis the hearts of men, when they storm and bluster at the d culties of salvation and narrowness of the way, and sta ness of the gate.-Hopkins. Works, p. 739. Pilots and masters of ships have many devices and mea to escape a blusterous and violent wind when it is aloft, when the same is allaied and down, there is no man ab raise and set it up againe.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 576. When I am angry, he cries prithee my dear be es when I chide one of my servants, prithee child, do bluster.-Spectator, No. 211. Terms are the blasterers in conversation, that with hennatural mirth, and a torrent of noise, domineer a pic assemblies-Tatler, No. 153. Aar heroes are generally lovers, their swelling and My upon the stage very much recommends them to the part of their audience.-Spectator, No. 11. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragick tyrants -now all ended-and my comrades gone, Pay what becomes of mother's only son? Cradock. Epilogue. She Stoops to Conquer. BOARA.S. Bar; Ger. Eber; Dut. BASH.Beer. Becanus-beer a baeren (to edici ait, quod plurimos foetus gignit. Wachter and Skinner agree that it may be from the Lat Aper. But see BEAR. Beer, may be formed thus,-Bay-er, baer, bár, (ounced bar,) boar; and the animal so ed from its noise. See, also, BRUTe. He vemde, i. e. foamed] and grunte, and stond agen, as jt were a strong bor. R. Gloucester, p. 208. And o honte hardiliche. to hares and to foxes To bores and to bockes. that breketh adoune menne begges. Piers Plouhman, p. 129. The hors hede that we bryng here, Bekeeth a pace with owte pere, Tibe this day to bye vg dere. A berry a sonerayne beste Adaptable in eury feste So te thys bord be to moste & leste. Thor hede we bryng wt song of hym that thus sprang Of a vagine to redresse all wrong. A Christmas Caroll Ritson on Warton. The wide are out of the wod hath roted it up, and the beasts of the folde haue deuoured it. Bible, 1551. Psalm 80. yet no man think it a light sin to keep open the whereby the wild boar (of barbarism] enters the yard, and whereby God is deprived of the honour Se ti hás name.—Spelman. English Works, p. 18 Peas found out the bore-speare and chasing staffe. Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 56. Reg. Wherefore to Douer? G. Because I would not see thy cruell nailes Pake out his poore old eyes: nor thy fierce sister, Of gold ther is a borde, & tretels there bi [trestles] R. Brunne, p. 152. As a beggere bordles. by myself upon the grounde. Id. p. 237. And sche seide, yhis lord, for whelpis eten of the crummes that fallen down fro the boord of her lordis. Wiclif. Matt. c. 15. BOARD. See ABORD and BOURD. BOAST, v. BO'ASTER. BOASTFULL. BO'ASTING. The origin of this very common word was unknown to our Etymologists. It is, probably, from the Fr. Bosse; which Cotgrave explains swollen, risen, puffed up. Eng. Boss; (qv.) and Dut. Bosse, umbo, tumulus; as the boss of a shield. And Skinner observes that umbo and tumulus are merely things, (quasi extumescentes et inflate;) as it were Now stood the lordes squier atte borde, But as the mouse, once caught in crafty trap, Which the Turkes perceiuing, made the more haste to come aboard the shippe: which ere they could doe, many a Turke bought it deerely with the losse of their liues, yet was all in vaine, and boorded they were, where they found so hote a skirmish, that it had beene better they had not medled with the feast.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 131. He answered, that when he beheld the boorde whereupon Darius was wont to eate employed to so base an vse, he could not beholde it withoute great greife. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 109. But [we] received very heavie newes of the death of John La anointed flesh, sticke boarish phangs. our departing from them.-Sir F. Drake Revived, p. 45. Where I, both weeds and wealthy couerings keepe, Chapman. Homer. Odysses, b. iii. The English man defended himself with incredible bravery, and beat off the French, after having been boarded three or four times.-Spectator, No. 350. The two captains, with some others, took their boat and they cloathed him, and gave him victuals, wine, and several Chaucer. Of Dido Queene of Carthage. He might for byrth haue boasted noble race Yet were his manners meke and always milde, Who gaue a gesse by gazing on his face, And iudgde thereby, might quickly be beguilde. Gascoigne. Epitaph upon Capt. Bourcher. Though Jierome wer a great prater & boaster of virginitie, yet was he no virgine, but may be suspected of yl rule we yōge wome, for his to moche familiarite we the as apeareth by his epistles.-Bale. Apology, p. 13. Pref. BOARD, BOARDER BOARDING Tooke agrees. See BROAD. To board is to cover with boards, as a floor, a r&c. to go or get on board a ship, and consequentially to force a way on board; also to be or se to be at the same board or table, and conseentially to take meals at the same board; to at the board, to supply the board with pro-ataan himself for the base intention which he has since Bord, the noun, is the common word for table May every god his friendly aid afford, brought to pass.-Tatler, No. 45. gr old writers. Bordles, i. e. boardless, is used went, at seventeen, on board the ship in which prince When war was declared against the Dutch, he [Sheffield] P. Plouhman; without a board or table. ole is kept. Board-wages; wages to supply the board or Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle sailed, with the com- Bard is also applied to those who sit at the religious truths, that unconquerable activity, patience, and ard or table: as the Board of Control, &c. A be sey that thys Lof, thys traytor sat there, R. Gloucester, p. 277. Itave God if it were so I strangle of this brede. R. Brunne, p. 55. They do not appear (if we may judge from their letters The ancients talk so frequently of a fixed, stated portion The Frenche men be covetous. Richard Coeur de Lion. Ellis. Rom. For yt ye ought to saye: if the Lord wyl, and we lyue, let vs do this or that. But now ye reioyce in your bostynges, all such reioysyng is euill.-Bible, 1551. St. Judas. For there are perilous times at hande (saith he) by reason of some, that vnder pretence of godlyness, turne true godlyness vp side downe and so prate boastinglye of themselues as thoughe the Christian religion consisted in wordes, and not rather in purenesse of herte. Udal. 2 Tim. Argument. His auncestours renowned in war and in peace, and [Classicus] himselfe boasted to be descended of enimies to the people of Rome, rather then friends. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 166. The prince [the Black Prince] inclyned himselfe to the yerthe, honouryng the kyng his father: this night they thanked God for their good adventure, and made no boost therof, for the kynge wolde that no manne shuld be proude, or make boost, but euery man humbly to thanke God. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 131. Sam. Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster, to survey me, To discant on my strength, and give thy verdit? Come nearer, part not hence so slight inform'd. Millon. Samson Agonistes. Is it not then high time that the laws should provide by the most prudent and effectual means to curb these bold and insolent defiers of heaven, who take a pride in being monsters, and boast themselves in the follies and deformities of humane nature?-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 3. But did this boaster threaten, did he pray, Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii Honest, though poor, (and who shall dare Churchill. The Ghost, b. iii. What art thou, grandeur! with thy flatt'ring train, But the right honourable gentleman has chosen to come forward with an uncalled-for declaration; he boastingly tells you, that he has seen, read, digested, compared every thing; and that if he has sinned, he has sinned with his eyes broad open.-Burke. On the Nabob of Arcot's Debts. The scanty stream Slow loitering in its channel, seems to vie O'er the rough rock, how must his fellow stream, You may frequently see one of the large islands sailing along with a lesser joined to it, like a ship with its long boat; or, perhaps, seeming to strive which shall out-swim the other.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. viii. Let. 20. Amid this fearful trance, a thund'ring sound BOA'TION. Lat. Boare, boatum; from Bovis, the ancient Latins formed bovare; whence boare. Boatus est Bon Tou Boos, The roar or bellow of an ox, anv roaring or bellowing. For who but an intelligent being, what less than an omnipotent, and infinitely wise God could contrive, and make such a fine body, such a medium, so susceptible of every impression, that the sense of hearing hath occasion for, to empower all animals to express their sense and meaning to others; to make known their fears, their wants, their pains His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak, King. Upon a Giant's angling. We shall only instance one of the most useful and in structive, bob-cherry, which teaches at once two noble vir tues, patience and constancy, the first in adhering to the pursuit of one end, the latter in bearing a disappointment. Pope. Martinus Scriblerus Upon our way from hence we saw a young fellow riding towards us full gallop, with a bob-wig and a black silken ba tied to it.-Spectator, No. 129. When Tom to Cambridge first was sent, To be a fop no more.-Shenstone. Extent of Cookery. BOBANCE. Fr. Bobancer, to boast. Bo bance, or Bombance; which Menage forms from See BOMBAST Pompa: perhaps from Bombasin. BOAT. A. S. Bate, Bat; Dut. Boot; BO'ATMAN. Ger. Bot; Sw. Boat; Fr. BaBOATSWAIN. teau; It. Batello. Wachter says, from Ger. Batten, (to beat,) trudere, impellere, to thrust, to dash or drive along. Bat dicitur de Cymba, quia Cymba est alveus trusatilis, qui remis impellitur. A vessel forced along the water by the beating of the oars. Boatswain; A. S. Bat-swan; Ger. Batswein; from bat or boat, and swein, a servant; formerly applied to The rower or manager of the oars. Botes he toke & barges, the sides togidere knytte, and sorrows in melancholic tones; their joys and pleasures in more harmonious notes; to send their mind at great distances, in a short time, in loud boations; or to express their thoughts near at hand with a gentle voice, or in secret whispers -Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 3. Ouer the water that lage [large] is fro bank to bank rauht face, to bob a curtesy; to play at bob-cherry; to itte. R. Brunne, p. 241. So fareth hit by the ryghtful Thauh he falle he falleth nat, bote as ho full in a bote That ay is saf and sounde, that suteth with ynne the borde. Piers Plouhman, p. 168. Therfor whanne thei hadden rowid as fyve and twenty furlongis, or thritti, thei seen Jhesus walkinge on the see, and to be nygh the boot: and thei dredden. Wiclif. John, c. 6. The wisest way, thy boate in waue and wind to giue, Uncertaine Auctors. Of the Golden Meane. Whom as the boat-man first, with eyes vpcast, in comming spied To walke in silent woods, and how to shore their feete they plied; He thus began to chafe, and towards them full lowd he Now nearer to the Stygian lake they draw: Dryden. Ib. You shall for the companies profite, and for the good husbanding of the victuals aboord, call upon the boateswaine and other of the company to vse such hookes and other engines as they haue aboord to take fish with. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 273. But you may intermeddle in the offices of maiors, bayliues, justices of peace, & indeede haue an oare in euery mans boate, and yet nothing hinder your pastoral office. Whitgift. Defence, p. 760. The swan by his great Maker taught this good, Drayton. Noah's Flood. But th' heedful boateman strongly forth did stretch How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermin, and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of paste-board? Spectator, No. 5. Full bowls of milk are hung around, From vessels boat-wise form'd, they pour a flood Of milk yet smoking, mix'd with sable blood. Lewis. Thebaid of Statius, b. vi. bob for grig, when some part of the tackle bobs into the water ; To something short, cropt, docked; as a bobtail, a bob-wig, ear-bobs. Whether to bob, to cheat, is so applied from some short, sharp, sudden act or trick, like those of a juggler, admits only of conjecture. At length to marriage flat he fell, Turberville. A Pretie Epigram. If any manne hapened by longe sitting to slepe, or by any other coûtenance, to shewe hym-selfe to be wery, he was sodeynely bobbed on the face by the seruantes of Nero for that purpose attendynge. Sir T. Elyot. The Governor, b. i. c. 7. For Lucius thinking to become a foule, He maketh no nobbes, But with his dialogues Gascoigne. David to Berzabe. Of my purveance I spake to him, and said him how that he, Of mariage.-Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Prol. v. 26,149. For to dwelle, throughs Goddes grace and chaunce, Octouian Imperator, v. 1550. Weber, vol. i Ancient Songs. Ritson, p.9. A Ballad against the Frenc BOBBIN. Fr. "Bobine, a quil for a spinnin wheel; also a skane of gold or silver thread (Cotgrave.) Perhaps, Bombine. See Menage v. BOBINE. And some of them turned in manner of spindles or bobis as folk spin or twist therewith, yet drawing a troubled a unequall course, and not able to direct and compose t motion straight.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 994. I'm sure I always lov'd cousin Con's hazle eyes. and h pretty long fingers, that she twists this way and that, o the haspicolls, like a parcel of bobbins. To abode, to bode, and to forbode, are used the same manner; viz. To see or discern, to shew or exhibit some ternal, superficial appearance, sign or token; fr Skelton. The Image of Ypocrysye. which we infer good or ill. Thulke sterre ys selde ys eye, bote yt boddynge be. On the Wissonday at Burgh in Lyndeseu Com bode to the kyng, & thus gan thei seie, That the duke Siwarde had taken in his balie Id. p. 61. Machog, pe Scottes kyng. -Whan bodword com tham tille To London for to com, whan parlement shuld be, Als custom was wonne, & tak ther his liuere.-Id. p. His spere was of fyn cypres, That bodeth werre, and nothing pees The hed ful sharpe yground. Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 15 Alexander, who beinge desirous to vndoe the fatal k at Gordium a towne in Phrygia, hearinge that the em of the worlde was boded by an olde prophecie to him coulde vuknitte it, not findinge out the endes of the stri not perceiuinge by what meanes he coulde doo it, d foorth his swoorde, and hewed it in pieces, supplyinge v of skil, with wilful violence.-Hardinge. Jewel, p. 81. Onward presenteth unto them safetie, victorie, life and Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act v. sc. 3. The strange overflowing of vice and wickedness in our d, and the prodigious increase and impudence of infidelity dimpiety, hath of late years boaded very ill to us, and brought terrible judgments upon this city and nation. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 20. The maid from that ill omen turn'd her eyes, Ser knew what signify'd the boding sign, But found the powers displeas'd, and fear'd the wrath divine-Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii. Jarvis. One who's voice is a passing bell. Honeywood. Well, well, go, do. In the beginning of his empire his manner was to retire himselfe daily into a secret place for one hour, and there doe nothing else but catch flies, and with the sharp point of a bodkin or writing steel pricke the through: in so much, as whe one enquired, whether any bodie were with Cæsar within? Vibivs Crispvs made answer not impertinently, no, not so much as a flie.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 261. If I had stuck him with my bodkin, and behaved myself like a man, since he won't treat me like a woman, I had, I think, served him right.-Spectator, No. 508. The poore artificer and householder, which tilleth no land, aboring all the weeke to buie a bushell or two of graine the market date, can there haue none for his monie, beball, but gine aboue the price, to be serued of great odgers, loders, and common carriers of corne doo onlie antities-Harrison. Desc. of England, c. 18. BODY, v. BODY, n. Bo'died. BO'DILESS. BODILY, adj. BODILY, ad. BO'DY-GUARD. A word of very various applications. Skinner thinks that, when used as it is in Lincolnshire for the lower part, inferiori corporis parte, it is connected with the Ger. Boden, which, according to Wachter, means fundus, (i. e. bottom,) et quicquid natura pedibus nostris calcandum subjecit. Fr. Beeld, the Dut. have formed Boude, (see BOLD,) and from Bild-en, the Ger. may have formed Bod-en. Body, may be the build; the form, constructure, the consolidated mass. They wage one poore man or other to become a bodger, and therto get him a licence upon some few forged surmise. Id. Ib. heartening leveller. Because it followeth, in the same place, nor will it be a hodor in this, I cannot on it the consequence of this disWhitlock Manners of the English, p. 437. BODICE. Something worn round the body. And first she wet her cornely cheiks, And then ber boddice green, Her silken cordes of twirtle twist, Hardycanute. Percy. Reliques. Bat I who live, and have liv'd twentie yeare As any mercer; or the whale-bone man Then the senate graunted out a decree, that the consul before he departed from the citie, should put up a bill or supplication unto the bodie of the people, that it would please them to elect a dictatour.-Holland. Livivs, p. 629. Idea is a bodilesse substance, which of itselfe hath no subsistence, but giveth figure and forme unto shapeless matters, and becommeth the very cause that bringeth them into shew and evidence -Holland. Plutarch, p. 666. Now I give up my shop, and dispose of all my poetical goods at once; I must therefore desire, that the public would please to take them in the gross; and that every body would turn over what he does not like. Prior. Postscript to his Works. The ancient sage, who did so long maintain That bodies die, but souls return again, With all the births and deaths he had in store, Went out Pythagoras, and came no more. Id. To the Memory of Villiers. I am mightily surpris'd to see you so good a judge of our nature and circumstances, since you are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.-Taller, No. 15. But how a body so fantastic, trim, And quaint, in its deportment and attire, Cowper. Task, b. ii. As men grew more and more acquainted with the motions and appearances of the heavenly bodies, they became more and more sensible, that the sun, earth, and planets, bear some very peculiar relation to one another. Beattie. On Truth, pt. ii. c. 1. But in reality it arose from very different causes: someown it.-Porteus. Life of Apb. Secker. It is applied to the body-of a man or other animal, as distinguished from the members; of a tree, as distinguished from the branches; of an guard, &c.; to material things, as distinguished times from bodily pain, which he often felt when he did not army, as distinguished from van-guard, rearfrom immaterial; to the main bulk, (the build,) the greater proportion, the united or collected mass. That quilts those bodies I have leave to span. Her bodice half way she unlac'd; About his arms she alily cast The silken bond, and held him fast. Prior. Love Disarmed. To body, or to embody, is to put into bodily, corporeal, material or substantial shape or form. To the eldest he seide first, "dogter ich bidde the Sey me al clene thin herte, how muche thou louest me, Min heye Godes," quoth this mayde, "to witnesse I take echon Then he [Pope] rose, he was invested in bodice made of canvass, being scarcely able to hold himself erect, till They were laced.-Johnson. Life of Pope. That y loue more in myn herte thi leue bodi one Than myn soule and my lif, that in my bodi ys.' R. Gloucester, p. 29. Therfore I sey to you that ye be not besy to youre lyf, what ye schul ete, neither to your bodi, with what ye schul be clothid, whether lyf is not more than mete and the body more than the cloth?-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 6. BODKIN. Skinner suggests that it may be a dondakin, a diminutive of body; iness, its slenderness. ; on account of its Bet on a time Brutus and Cassius, That ever had of his high estat envie, Pa prively had made conspiricie Agus this Julius in sotil wise: And cast the place, in which he shulde die With bodekins, as I shal you devise. At last with bodkins dubd and doust to death; Therfore I say vnto you: be not carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke, nor yet for your body, what ye shal put on. Is not the life more worthe then meate, and the body more of value the raiment. And all his [Cæsar's] glorie banisht with his breath. Gascoigne. The Fruits of Warre. Bible, 1551. Ib. He for despit, and for his tyrannie, Firste for thy bodyliche kynde, Like to the aged boysteous bodied oke, The which among the Alpes the northerne windes It is in the body-politic, as in the natural, those disorders are most dangerous that flow from the head. The signification of baptism is described of Paule in the 6th of ye Romaines, that as we are plunged bodily into the water. Euen so we are dead & buried with Christ from sinne.-Frith. Workes, p. 23. BOG, v. Bo'GLAND. Bo'GTROTTER. Melmoth. Pliny, b. iv. Let. 22. A. S. Bug-an, to bow; Dut. Boogen, flectere, quia (sc.) prementi cedit; because it gives way to pressure. See Skinner. Applied to Land, or ground, that bows, yields, gives way to pressure:-marshy, miry, land. On Wednesday the Indians of the toune hauing hunted a doe, shee tooke soyle & came neer our ship, and putting off with our boat we tooke her, being like vnto our deere in England, not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 695. I shall rendre my brother into your handes, to do your pleasure with hym, without he woll obey as I woll haue him; so that ye promyse me by the fayth of your body, that ye shall do his person no bodely hurt. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 67. The primary ideas we have peculiar to body, as contra No part or corner man can looke upon, B. Jonson. Underwood. An Epistle to a Friend. Therefore of purpose he sometime brought them one way, other while another way, and at last brought them into a great bog or marish, full of deep holes and ditches, and where they must needs make many turns, and returns before they could get out again, and yet very hardly. North. Plutarch, p. 480. Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,625. distinguished to spirit, are the cohesion of solid, and conse- He sitteth in fudgement almost euery day. They vse no a tree with the point of an yron bigger then a bodkin. ch, but give vp their supplications written in the leaues Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 260. Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 4, This prouince of Amapaix is a very low and a marish ground nere the riuer; and by reason of the red water which issueth out in small branches thorow the fenny and boggy ground, there breed diuers poisonfull wormes and serpents. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 639. Every bog hath most certainly a living spring in it. If possibly we could light on the head of that spring, or meet it higher than the place of the bog, and give it a clear passage, the nether bog will vanish. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 383. For he that is deeply engaged in vice is like a man laid fast in a bogg, who by a faint and lazy struggling to get out, does but spend his strength to no purpose, and sinks himself the deeper into it.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 28. Go, conquerors of your male and female foes; Dryden. Prologue to the Prophetess. Jago. Edge-hill, b. iii. For if I have been led into bogs and quagmires, by following an ignis fatuus, what can I do better, than to warn others to beware of it?-Reid. Enquiry, c. 1. s. 8. It's a damn'd long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way. Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer. BO'GGLE, v. Ros. My lord, I do confesse the ring was hers. Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act. v. sc. 3. Cleo. Good my lord. Ant. You haue beene a boggeler euer, But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard. (Oh misery on't) the wise Gods seele our eyes. Id. Antony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 11. What wise man or woman doth not know, that nothing is more sly, touchy, and bogglish, nothing more violent, rash, and various, than that opinion, prejudice, passion, and superstition of the many or common people? Bp. Taylor. Artif. Handsomeness, p. 172. He [Edw. Bagshaw, jun.] fell to the old trade of conventicling and raising sedition, for which being ever and anon troubled, [he] had at length the oaths of allegiance and supremacy tendered to him, but he bogling at them at first, and afterwards denying to take them, was committed prisoner to Newgate.-Wood. Athena Oxon. 'Tis true indeed when a sinner is first tempted to the commission of a more gross and notorious sin, his conscience is apt to boggle and start at it, he doth it with great difficulty and regret.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 10. In fermentations we do generally see a circulation, or several kinds of boglins, as it were by a mixture of agitations, partly by spiral lines, partly by undulations, not mixt otherwise than in the motion of smoke. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 426. BOIL, v. Fr. Bouillir; It. Bollire; Sp. BOIL, n. Bullir; Lat. Bullire; perhaps BOILING. from the Gr. Baλew, to throw, to Bo'ILER. throw forth; (sc.) from the surface. The noun, when applied to an ebullition or ejection from the surface of the skin, is written Bile by Wiclif and Tindall; and the opinion of etymologists, who consider it to be correctly so written, are given under BILE. To boil is to throw, to cast up or forth, (sc.) some portions of a solid mass above or over the rest; and thus to fluctuate; to effervesce; to agitate or cause to be agitated; to be heated (as water by fire, till it throws itself or is thrown over, (sc.) the vessel.) Met. to be warm, animated, ardent, eager. Boiler is applied to the person who, and the vessel in which any thing, boils. Then boyld my breast with flame and burning wrath, Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. ii. In this year [1542] the teth daie of Marche, there was a maide boiled in Smithfielde for poisonyng diuers honest persons that she had dwelled with in the citee of London. Fabyan. Hen. VIII. an. 1542. And whan the place was marked in Normandy, and dylygently sought out, the searchers behelde a fearful flutteryng and teryble boylynge in a serten water, an horyble stynkyng smoke arysynge thereof.-Bale. Votaries, pt. ii. The spye entered downe into the dykes, where ther was no water, nor none coude abyde there, for it was all a quycke boylyng sande. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 321. How happy were those, in very height Of this great battle that had bravely dy'd! Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. And so the black-guard are pleased with any lease of life (for some 999) especially those o' the boyling-house; they are to have Medeas kettle hung up, that they may souse into it when they will, and come out renew'd like so many strip'd snakes at their pleasure. B. Jonson. Masques. Mercurie Vindicated. He can give you favour, when he pleaseth, in the sight of the worst enemies in the world, so as to make them your best friends; and how long soever he may suffer their choler to boil in their breasts, he can keep it from breaking forth either at their hands or tongues. Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 123. The kettle boil'd, and all prepar'd Cunningham. The Broken China. BOISTEROUS. Dut. Büsen; Ger. Beisen, Bo'ISTEROUSLY. mordere. Beisswind is a BOISTEROUSNESS. keen biting wind; as the BOISTOUS. north wind. The Dut. Bo'ISTEOUSNESS. Büster is furious, raging, Bor'sTOUSLY. turbulent. And from these Boistous and Boisterous may have been formed, and applied to any thing Turbulent, tempestuous, stormy, violent; to any thing coarse, rude, noisy. And no man puttith a clout of boistous cloth into an old cloathing, for it doeth awey the fulnesse of the cloth and a worse brekyng is maad.-Wielif. Matthew, c. 9. I am a boistous man, right thus say I. Chaucer. The Manciples Tale, v. 17,160. He on a day in open audience Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8666. Who takes not pleasure then safely on shore to rest, And see with drede and depe dispayre, how shipmen are distrest? Vncertaine Auctors. Felicitee of a Minde, &c. To the house top I climbe And harkning stood I like as when the flame Lightes in the corn, by drift of boisterous winde: The silly herdman all astonnied standes, From the hye rock, while he doth here the sound. Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. ii. - Vp the toure I climbe by staires on hie, And layde mine eare, and still I stood about me round to spy. And euen as fire in boystrous wind some country ripe of Time makes the tender twig to bousteous tree to grow: It makes the oke to overlooke The slender shrubs bylow. Turberville. Time Conquereth all Things. One is soft, meeke & gentle, as was Dauid, John, & Peter, an other is boysteous, harde, and vehement, as was Helias, Esay, & Paule.-Bale. Image, pt. ii. A cruell sorte of false disciples and wicked bretheren arose vp frō among them, all earthly minded to couetusnesse, puffed vp with pride and ambition, inflamed also with anger, spight, & vengeaunce, they boysteously entred among the people, so mutable and fickle as the sea, which chaungeth with euery winde.-Id. Ib. But whan he cast hys iyes a little from Jesus, and began to looke about him, and to considre the boysteousnes of the winde, the hurling of the waues and his owne feblenes, he was afrayed agayn, and began to sinke downe & be in danger of drowning.-Udal, Matthew, c. 14. Or when with boist'rous rage the swelling main, For he [David] before had not been us❜d to these, Drayton. David & Golia Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius, b. i On the contrary he took the fact for granted, and so join in with the cry, and halloo'd it as boisterously as the rest. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. iii. c. 2 Lord Coningsby, Mr. Stanhope, and Mr. Lechmere we the principal interrogators; who, in this examination Prior] of which there is printed an account not unentertai ing, behaved with the boisterousness of men elated by rece authority.-Johnson. Life of Prior. BO'LARY, adj. Of or pertaining to the speci of clayey earth, called Bol-armoniac. Lat. Bo Armenice, a kind of earth found in Armen (Minshew.) The magnes carneus is nothing else but a weak, an ina mate kind of loadstone, veined here and there with a f magnetical and ferreous lines; but chiefly consisting o bolary and clammy substance; whereby it adheres hematites, or terra lemnia, unto the lips. BOLD, v. BO'LDHEDE. BOʻLDLY. BOLDNESS. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. Fr. Baud; It. Baldo; D Boude; A. S. Bald, Byld, byld, audax. A. S. Byldan, build, to confirm, to establish make firm, and sure and fast. consolidate, to strengthen. thus (adds Tooke) a man of confirmed coura i. e. a confirmed heart, is properly said to b builded, built, or bold man, who, in the A is termed byld, bylded, ge-byld, ge-bylded, well as bald. The A. S. words Bold and B i. e. builded, built, are both likewise used in ferently for what we now call a building, ( builden) or strong edifice, (Tooke, ii. 129.) BOLD, infra. To bold or bolden; is to confirm the courag give additional courage; or as we now say encourage or embolden (qv.) Bold, the adj., is also applied to the extr of courage, to that which is a daring, audac impudent: as well as to that which is Fearless, intrepid, dauntless, courageous. that which is Well, firmly, built; strongly constructed, e in nature or art, as a bold coast; or, in pai or statuary, a bold figure. Hony & mylk ther ys muche. mony folk & bolde. |