Stralfully be towards him did pas,

Ferting up aloft his speckled brest,

A

bounding on the bruzed gras,

A great joyance of his new come guest.

Spenser. The Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.

Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds,

And now his woven girts he breaks asunder,

The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds,

Whose bollow womb resounds like Heaven's thunder.
Shakespeare. Venus & Adonis.

Ta strange! the pilot keeps his seat;
Hsing ship does so curvet,

Was the poor passengers are found,

In their own fears already drown'd.-Cotton. Winter.

-This discourse did breath

The fery boundings of his heart, that still

Lay in that sture.-Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx.

Perde but note a wilde and wanton heard

Ore of youthful and vnhandled colts,

Feng mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,

Wach is the hot condition of their bloud.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act v. sc. 1.

I've seen a huntsman, active as the morn,

Saate her earliest blush with sounding horn;

Pars the bounding stag with op'ning cries,

And rht the timid hare, his easy prize:

Then, with the setting sun, his hounds restrain ; bosading stag, nor timid hare obtain.

BOUND,.

BOUND, BYNDARY.

or

Blacklock. Desiderium Lutetiæ. Low Lat. Bonna, borna, or bunda, bonnare; Fr. Bonne, or borne, borner. BOUNDER. Abonner, aborner, to fix the BUNDLESS. bourn or bound; to include, BUNDLESSNESS. or inclose within limits; to dor (with the mere difference of the interhable letters b, and p,) to pound, from the A&verb Prad-an, to inclose.

To inde or inclose, within limits or confines; mt, to confine, to restrict or restrain; to de

e or terminate.

Fist the nemaid alle the,

Tat bergh the reame suld go, the boundes forto stake. R. Brunne, p. 309.

And every reaume went he for to see,

strong that no man might him let;

A worldes endes, saith Trophee,

lee of boundes he a pillar set.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,121.

Why doest thou rather put into his head howe farre he mayettede the boundes of his dominions, then put him in Sauce with howe narrowe lymites the seignorie,

he hath nowe at this present, was in old tyme ned-Udal. Mark, Pref. p. x.

The Pers and Plowma hopes to picke a thake,
By ng bondes, (which got skarce graze his goose.)
Gascoigne. The Fruits of Warre.

refre and restrane thern fro euvl, and some tyme holeSave the feare of infamy, dishonour and dyspraise, somy tyle and contei ne them within the limites & Sir T. More. Workes, p. 622.

de of god and honorable order.

Fu: let v Erst consider the breadth and bignesse of this Jutting the which as euery man man knoweth, is 47. deeach packe, which are the bounders thereof, being Gegress and a halfe distant from the equinoctiall.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 48.

Which to outbarre, with paineful pyonings
Fea to sea he heapt a mighty mound,
Which from Aldaid to Panwelt did that border bound.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10.

Whose circled waters rapt with whirling sway
to a restlesse wheele, still ronning round,
doret, as they passed by that way,
To draw their bote within the utmost bound
(Lis wide Labyrinth.
Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 12.

Besides her modest countenance he saw
Sopody grave, and full of princely aw

This ranging fancie did refraine,

Autoser thoughts to lawful bounds withdraw.

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6.

But, Sir with what possibilitie can your constitution be so boundlessly amorous as to affect all women of what degree, forme or complection soeuer?

Marston. The Fawne, D 42. (1606.) -Ye good distrest! Ye noble few! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deemed evil, is no more.-Thomson. Winter. As in geometry, of all lines or surfaces contained within the same bounds, the streight line and the plain surface are the shortest: so it is also in morality: by the right line of Justice, upon the plain ground of Vertue, a man soonest will arrive to any well-chosen end.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 5.

pwes roll forward like a gentle flood, being stopp'd, the bounding banks o'erflows: Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.

caled with nor law nor limit knows.

es and when shee hath done her best, to supply the miracles, hee loves ever to meet nature in her overruling power.-Bp.Hall. Cont. Simon called. whom all the skill and power of armes did late

a man in counsell poore, that (trauelling) goes

Ang past a boundlere plaine) not knowing where

练

20e on the sudden, where he sees a riuer rough.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v.

Let active thought these close meanders trace,
Let human wit their dubious boundaries place,
Are all things miracle or nothing such?

Prior. Solomon, b. i. God has given no man a body as strong as his appetites: but has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires, by stinting his strengths, and contracting his capacities. South, vol. i. Ser. 1.

The world was ne'er design'd for thee:
You're like a passenger below,
That stays perhaps a night or so;
But still his native country lies
Beyond the bound'ries of the skies.

Cotton. Content, Vision 4.

Is there a temple of the deity,
Except earth, sea, and air, yon azure pole;
And chief, his holiest shrine, the virtuous soul?
Where'er the eye can pierce, the feet can move,
This wide, this boundless universe is Jove.

BOUNTY.
Bo'UNTEOUS.

Bo'UNTEOUSLY.
Bo'UNTEOUSNESS.
BOUNTIFUL.

BOUNTIFULLY. BOUNTIFULNESS. Bo'UNTIHEAD.

Lyttelton. Cato's Speech to Labienus.

Fr. Bonté; It. Bontà; Sp. Bondad; Lat. Bonitas, (of unsettled etymology,)

is

Goodness, kindness, beneficence, benevolence, munificence, liberality, generosity.

For God it wot, that children often been
Unlike hir worthy elders hem before,
Bountee cometh al of God, not of the stren,
Of which they ben ygendred and ybore:
I trust in Goddes bountee, and therefore
My marriage, and min estat, and rest
I him betake, he may don as him lest.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8032.

This maid, of which I tell my tale expresse,
She kept hireself, hire needed no maistresse;
For in hire living maidens mighten rede,
As in a book, every good word and deede,
That longeth to a maiden vertuous :
She was so prudent and so bounteous.
For which the fame outsprong on every side
Both of hire beautee and hire bountee wide.
Id. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,039.

Nature set in hir at ones
Beautee with bountee so beseyn,
That I maie well afferme and seyn,
I sawe yet neuer creature,

Of comly hede, and of feture,
In any kynges region,

Be liche hir in comparison.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Hereby see we that dedes and works are but outward signes of the inward grace of the bounteous and plenteous mercy of God, frely receyued without all merites of deedes,

ye and before all dedes.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 66.

Wherfore he thancked the king with all his harte for his honorable present, promising to requite his bounteous liberalitye, by some good tourne that lay in his owne pryuate power to doo.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 128.

Ye maye (sayde the kynge) bounteouselye rewarde me, if ye lende me the yonge man that daunsed before your maiestie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 20.

A parte of ye cause was, yt the sayd Charlys after theyr thynkyng, had not so bounteously rewarded them as they had deseruyd.-Fabyan. Ludovici XI. an. 1465.

But this sudden pang, hauing first commended the bounteousness of his minde,-the LL. of the senate staied;affirming it to be the dissolution of the empire, if the reuenewes by which it was sustained should be diminished. Grenewey. Tacitus. Annales, p. 196.

Then the commons louyngly thaked the kyng and muche praised his witte that he had denyed it to them when they unworthely demaunded it, and had bountifully graunted it when he perceiued that they sorowed and lamented. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 22.

And in affliccions thorowe the help of God they be inuincible and if any prosperitie come vnto them, thei ascribe it wholly to the goodnes and bountifulnes of God. Udal. Matthew, c. 4.

Wherefore, he vsyng all lenitie, mercie, and bounteousnesse would not once touche or apprehende the body of King Henry, whome he might both haue slaine, and vtterly destroyed, considering that he had him in his warde and gouernance.-Grafton. Hen. VI. an. 33.

Rue on me, Lord, for thy goodnes and grace,
That of thy nature arte so bountifull;

For that goodness, that in the worlde dothe brace
Repugnant natures in quiet wonderfull.

For that I may not remark the bounties of God running over the tables of the rich, God hath also made provisions for the poorest persons; so that if they can but rule their desires, they shall have their tables furnished.

Wyatt. Psalme 51.

Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 26.

Now gins this goodly frame of temperance
Fairely to rise, and her adorned hed
To prick of highest praise forth to aduance,
Formerly grounded, and fast setteled

On firme foundation of true bountihed.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12.

If then he be as deceived and as absurd, who thinketh that the gods be mortal and corruptible, as he who is of opinion, that they bear no bountiful and loving affection toward men, Chrysippus is as far from the truth as Epicurus. Holland. Plutarch, p. 881.

Hath the kings bountifulnesse giuen lands and possessions to Christian churches for this end? that Clearkes harlots should bee pampered with delicious dainties.

Slowe. The West Saxons, an. 974.

His honest friends, at thirsty hour of dusk,
Come uninvited; he with bounteous hand
Imparts his smoking vintage, sweet reward
Of his own industry.

Philips. Cyder, b. ii.

The duke turned to the lady, and told her, it now remains for me to put you in quiet possession of what your husband has so bountifully bestowed on you; and ordered the iminediate execution of Rhynsault.-Spectator, No. 491.

For Providence decrees, that we obtain

With toil each blessing destin'd to our use; But means to teach us, that our toil is vain,

If he the bounty of his hand refuse.-Scott, Eleg. 3. But oh thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.

Cowper. Task, b. v.

To thy blest hand, and bounteousness of mind,
Has giv'n extensive powers unslacken'd rein;
To me a barrenness of wish assign'd,

That grieves itself to see another's pain.-Boyse. Ode. It is true, indeed, the direction of the public weal is in the hands of a single person, who, for the general good, takes upon himself to ease us of the whole care and weight of government; but still that bountiful source of power permits, by a very generous dispensation, some streams to flow down to us.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. iii. Let. 20.

If they are less bountifully provided than the rich, with the materials of happiness for the present life, let them how ever be thankful to Providence that they have fewer difculties to contend with, fewer temptations to combat, and fewer obstacles to surmount, in their way to the life which is to come.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 17.

BOURD, v. Bourd, n. Bo'URDING.

Fr. Bourde, scoffs, jeasts. gibes, cuts, quips, (Cotgrave. ) Dut. Boerde; Mid. Lat. Burda. Dr. Jamieson thinks that the Fr. Bourd-er is merely an abbreviation of Be-houdir, behorder, to joust together with lances,-and that this being a species of mock fighting very common in former times, the idea has been transferred to talking in jest or mockery.

To Bourd, bord or board, seems merely to be-To abord or aboard, to accost, to approach; to accost in speech, to address; or direct the speech or discourse to: to attack in speech, sportively, jestingly; to jeer or jest, to banter.

Bretheren, quad he, take kepe what I shal say;
My wit is gret, though that I bourde and play.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,710.
Yet had I lever payen for the mare,
Which he rit on then he should with me strive.
I wool not wrathen him so mote i thrive;
That that I spake, I sayd it in my bourd.

Id. The Manciples Prol. v. 17,026.

Gamelyn satte him adoun
In the justic'is stede,
Herkenith now of the bourde
That Gamelyn tho dede. Id. The Plowmans Tale.
With sugred words she wood and sparde no speach,
But bourded him with many a pleasant tale.

Turberville. The Louer wisheth, &c.
At length her self bordeth Æneas thus,
Unfaithful wight, to cover such a fault,
Coldest thou hope?

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv

She smote her breast and rushing through the rout;
And her dieng she cleapes thus by her name.
Sister, for this with craft did you me bourd.

Ye should not, sir, in a strange land,
Mock, nor yet be ouer-bourdand;
But, if ye will with bourdings deal,
Right cleanly than ye should them veil.

Sir Eger. Ellis. Rom. vol. iii.

They all agreed: so turning all to game
And pleasant bord, they past forth on their way.
And all that while, wherto they rode or came,
That masked mock knight was their sport and play.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 4.

Whom thus at gaze the Palmer gan to bord
With goodly reason, and thus fayre bespoke.

Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 2.
The next, the Stubborne Newre whose waters gray
By faire Kilkenny and Rosseponte boord.
Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 11.
The wisard could no longer beare her bord
But, bursting forth in laughter, to her sayd.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 3. I am wise enough to tell you I can bourd where I see occasion, or if you like my uncle's wit better than mine, Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act iii. sc. 5.

you shall marry me.

Gramercy, Borril, for thy company,

For all thy jests, and all thy merry bourds, Upon thy judgment much I shall rely, Because I find much wisdom in thy words.

BOURDON, n.

Drayton Pastorals, Ecl. 7. Burden, or Burthen, (qqv.)

And there in mourning spend their time With wailfull tunes, whiles wolves do howle and barke, And seem to beare a bourdon to their plaint.

Spenser. On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney.

BOURGEON, v. Į Sursum geminans is renBo'URGEON, n.

}dered by burton

nynge upwards. Menage says the Fr. Bourgeon is from Burrio; and Burrio from Burra. Skinner, that it is from Bourre, soft down, because buds are generally soft and downy. But the origin of Bourre is still to seek.

Fr. Bourgeonner, to bud, to spring or sprout out, to put or shoot out, (Cotgrave.)

Biholde ghe that no man faile to the grace of God, that no roote of bittirnesse buriownynge upward lette and manye be defoulid by it.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 12.

Wost thou not well (qd. she) but euery tree in his seasonable time of bourioning shew his blomes from within, in signe of what fruite shoulde out of him spring, els the fruit for that yere men halt deliuered, be the ground neuer so good. And though the stock be mighty at ye full, & ye braunches seer & no burions shew, farwel ye gardiner, he may pipe with an yue leaf, his fruit is failed.

Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii.

Good lady (qd. I than) it hath oft be seen, yt weathers & stormes so hugely haue fall in burioning time, & by perte duresse han beaten of the springs so clean, wherthrough ye fruit of thilk yere hath failed. It is a great grace whā burions han good wethers, their fruits foorth to bring.-Id. Ib.

noted a river, st. 2.

See the quotation from Stow.

Ne care ne feare I how the wind do blow
Or whether swift I wend or whether slow;
Both slow and swift alike do serve my tourne;
Ne swelling Neptune, ne lowd-thundring Jove,
Can chaunge my cheare, or make me ever mourne;
My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourne.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6. s. 10.

She Beverley salutes, whose beauties so delight, The fair-enamour'd flood, as ravish'd with the sight, That she could ever stay, that gorgeous phane to view, But that the brooks and bourns so hotly her pursue. Drayton. Poiy-Olbion, s. 28. Diuers bournes sodainly brake out of the hollowe places of the earth, and ouerflowed a great part of Canterbury cittie, the streame whereof was so swift and violent, that it bare downe buildings and houses, and drowned manie people. Stow. Hen. III. an. 1271. BOURN. Fr. Bonne or Borne, a bound, limit, meere, march; the end or furthest compass of a thing, (Cotgrave.)

For the etymology, see To BOUND or INCLOSE,
Ulyss. I will not praise thy wisdom,
Which like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines
Thy spacious and dilated parts.

We'll see when 'tis enough, when both eyes out,
Or if it wants the nice concluding bout;
But, if it lies too long, the crackling's pall'd,
Not by the drugging-box to be recall'd.

The prince of

King. The Art of Cookery. has taken me in his train, so that I

am in no danger of starving for this bout.

Goldsmith. A Letter from a Traveller. BOUTEFEU. Fr. Boute-feu, a wilful or voluntary firer of houses; also a fire-brand of sedition, a kindler of strife and contention: one that loves to set, and see men together by the ears.

For an example, see the quotation from Hammond in v. BROIL.

A charge was brought up from the House of Commons to the Lords, by Sir Henry Vane the Younger, a most note rious sectarist, an indefatigable boutefeu, and promoter o the discontents and rebellion that followed.

Wood. Athena Ozon. W. Laud When the Long Parliament began, he [Will. Strode became an active and busy man, and a downright boulefe therein against the king's prerogative.-Id. Ib.

BOW, v. Bow, n. Bo'WER. Bo'WYER.

Bo'WING, n. Bo'WHAND.

Bo/WMAN.

A. S. Byg-an; Dut. Buygen Ger. Beugen; Sw. Boga, to bow To bend, to curve, to crook, t arch, to incline, to decline.

Bow, the noun, whether a plied to the inclination of th body in reverence; or to an e

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act. ii. sc. 3. gine of war; or an instrument of musick; or

Cleop. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
Cleop. I'll set a bourn, how far to be belov'd.
Id. Antony & Cleopatra, Act. i. sc. 1.
Death hath summon'd it to go
Pensive to the shades below:
Dismal regions! from whose bourn
No pale travellers return.

Fawke. The Sparrow.

The Dut. Buyse is, (according to

particular kind of knot; or the curved part of saddle, or of a ship; or to the arc-en-ciel, (rai bow ;) or to bended legs; or to the branches trees; always means one and the same thing; v bended or curved; and is the past tense and pa part. of the A. S. Bygan, flectere, incurvare. § Tooke, ii. 216.

Wiclif renders the Lat. declinare, vitare, (sc. slip on one side, to escape,) by the English wo

BOUSE. Kilian,) a cup with two handles, to bow. It is also used (consequentially) for

Bo'usy.

which on account of its size is taken up and set down with both hands. Buysen, to drink out of from the Gr. pure, to blow. It seems plainly such a cup, to drink largely. Skinner suggests formed from the Fr. Boire, to drink, beu, drunken. To bouse is

To drink largely, sottishly; to swill.
Her loathly leare
Is nothynge cleare
But vglye of cheare
Her face all bowsy
Comelye crinkled

To give way, to yield, to submit; to obey. Conon bowede a doun to hym, & thonkede hym faste And bi het to serue hym trewliche, the while ys lyf la R. Gloucester, p The bowiares ssoppe hii breke, & bowes nome ech on. Wilton had thei taken, Southampton also, Cornwaile and Wales bouwed tham vnto.

Id. p.

R. Brunne, P

And brynge alle men to bowe. with oute bitter wonde Piers Ploukman, P And the day began to bowe doun, and the twelve c into castels and tounes that ben aboute that thei fynde n for we ben here in a desert place.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 9.

Wonderously wrynkled. Skelton. Elinour Rumming. and seiden to him, leeve the puple that thei go and t

Still as he rode, he somewhat still did eate,
And in his hand did beare a bouzing can,
Of which he supt so oft, that on his seat
His drunken corse he scarce vpholden can.

Where'er you see ungracious Ham,
Bent to disclose his father's shame,
And, spite of modest Shem and Japhet,
Persist the boozy sire to laugh at,
You aid the pious brother's cares :
Your delicacy suits with theirs.-Cambridge. Painting.
BOUT. See BOUGHT. One bout, one turn;
another turn, another trial.
Here, tyrant, take a taste of my good-will,
For thus I doe begin my bloody bout:
You cannot chuse but like the greeting ill;
It is not that same clubb will beare you out.
Guy & Amarant. Percy, vol. iii.

But leave we Hob to clamber out,
Queen Mab and all her fairy rout,
And come again to have a bout
With Oberon yet madding.

And I saigh, and lo a whyt hors, and he that sat on hadde a bouwe, and a crowne was gouun to him ar wente out ouercomynge that he schulde ouercome. Id. Apocalips

And beholde there was a whyte horsse, and he that s hym had a bowe, and a crowne was geuen vnto him, a went forth coquering and for to ouercome.-Bible, 155 Ther were also of Martes division,

Th' armerer, and the bowyer, and the smith,
That forgeth sharpe swerdes on his stith.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, V.

For euer his bowe is ready bent,

And whom he hit I tell hym shent.-Gower. Con. A
Amid the court vnder the heuen all bare

A great alter there stood, by which there grew
An old laurel tree bowing therunto,
Which with his shadow did embrace the gods.

Surrey. Virgile. Enai

By worshippyng, whether it was in the olde testam newe, vnderstand the bowing of a mans self vpon the gi as we ofte tymes, as we kneele to our prayers bote our and lie on our armes & hands with our face to the gr Tyndal. Workes Then all the gonnes seuered them selues into one the pykes in another, and the bowmen in another. Hall. Hen. VIII. When the Turke was arriued, he bent his or toward the towne and did no great harm, when he s the walles were of that defence that ordinaunce harme, he caused all his pyoners to cast yearth one ouer another styl, tyll they came within a bowsho Drayton. Nymphidia. wall.-Grafton. Hen. VIII. an. 14.

They re little drummes at their sadle bowes, by the sound when their horses vse to runne more swiftly.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 314.

Wilan shot so wonderous well,

Thys arrowes were all agoe,

And the fyre so fast upon hym fell,

That hys bowstring brent in two.-Adam Bell. Percy.

She sees her son, her God,

Bow with a load

Of borrow'd sins; and swim

In woes that were not made for him.

Crashaw. Sancta Maria Dolorum.

So farely dight, when she in presence came,
She to her sire made humble reuerence,
And bored lowe, that her right well became,
And added grace vnto her excellence.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12.

-When he came, he saw

Ties viewing, ere he tried to draw

The famous bear; which euery way he mou'd;

Tp and downe turning it: in which he prou'd

The plight it was in: fearing chiefly, lest

The bores were eate with wormes, in so long rest:

But what his thoughts intended, turning so;

And keeping such a search about the bow;

The vers little knowing, fell to iest,

And said; past doubt, he is a man profest

In tower craft, and sees quite through the wood.
Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xxi.

And now his well-known bow the master bore,
Tua'd on all sides, and view'd it o'er and o'er:

Lest time or worms had done the weapon wrong,

owner absent and untry'd so long.

While some deriding-"How he turns the bow!
Some other like it sure the man must know,
Or else would copy; or in bows he deals;
Perhaps he makes them, or perhaps he steals."

Pope. Homer. Ib.

-See, though from far,

His thousands, in what martial equipage
They issue forth, steel bows, and shafts their arms
Of equal dread in flight, or in pursuit.

Id. Paradise Regained, b. iii. 1. 305.

But I shall instance only in the Greek and Syriack churches: in the Greek they have their ordinary bowings, which they properly call porkuvuara, worshippings; and their extraordinary which they call meтavotas; which are of two sorts, the lesser and the greater; the lesser are, when they for their heads only to the ground; the greater, when they be prostrate upon it.-Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 5.

the string is always ready upon their bow to let fly arrow ill repert] with an incredible swiftness, through city and country, for fear the innocent man's justification should overtake it-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 42.

BOWEL, v.

Bo'WEL, n. Bo'WELS. Bo'WELLESS.

Fr. Boyau, boyaux; It. Budello, which Menage derives from the Lat. Botellus. Junius observes, that the English word seems to be taken from bow, to bend, to wind, to twist: as the Gr. ενδινα, παρα το εντος δινεισθαι, on account of their folds or convolutions within us-quod intus convolvantur in gyrum. (Flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. xi. 37.)

Bowels is used generally for the innermost, the vital parts, the seat of feeling, compassion, or sympathy.

To bowel, to take out the bowels, to eviscerate, to excavate. See DISBOWEL.

But the auctor of Polycronycon sayth, he was bowellyd at Crongthon Abbey and buryed at Worcetyr, in the myddle of the quier of mūkis, when he had reygned xvi. yeres. vi. monethes. and iiii. dayes.—Fabyan. K. John, an. 1217.

Then was the bodye bowelled, embawmed, and cered, and secretly amongest other stuffe conueyed to Newcastle. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 5

I therefore exhorte your excellent majestie in the bowels of Jesus Christ.-Bale. Apology, p. 61.

The angrie and outragious woman, [Q. Isabell] who commaunded the erle [Hugh Spenser] to be bound, and without question or answere to bee drawen & hanged in his armour, taken downe aliue and bowelled, his bowelles burned, then his head smitten off, and his bodie hanged up againe, and after foure dayes to be cut all to peeces and cast to dogges to be eaten.-Stow. Edw. II. an. 1326.

And verily, Homer seemeth not to be ignorant of this difference whereof we speak; for of diviners and soothsayers, some he calleth owvoroλous, i. e. augurs, that is to say authours or observers of birds; others lepers, that is to say, bowel-priers, that spie into the inwards of sacrifices.

Holland. Pluturch, p. 995.

And the bowell-prying soothsaier, (as it is reported) shewed to Decius the head of the liver on the inner side wounded (as it were) and cut off.-Holland. Livivs, p. 287.

Nor to the surface of enliven'd earth,
Graceful with hills and dales, and leafy woods,
Her liberal tresses, is thy force confin'd;
But to the bowel'd cavern darting deep,
The mineral kinds confess thy mighty power.
Thomson. Summer.
Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowel-less
unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
Browne. Christian Morals, i. 7.

She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,
That tears the bowels of thy mangled mate,
From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs
The scourge of heav'n.

Gray. The Bard.

"A. S. Bur, bure, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a bower," (Somner.) Dut. Bure, tugurium; Ger. Bauer, from Ger. Bauen; A. S. Byan; to inhabit, to indwell. Applied to—

A habitation, a dwelling, an apartment in a dwelling; now usually applied-to some shaded place of retirement formed of trees or the bows or

Af this, resuming heart, the prophet said:
Nor becatomb unslain, nor vows unpaid,

On Greeks, accurs'd, this dire contagion bring,
fall for vengeance from the bowyer king.
Id. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

Doth not the ox obedient bow

Es patient neck, and draw the plough.-Cotton, Fab. 1.

B

pays his debts, and visit, when 't is due; Echaracter and gloves are ever clean,

And then he can out-bow the bowing dean.
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. 4.

There the sycophant and he

And Junius thinks bower is so called because formed of the bows or boughs of trees.

Justices some Buskede hem to the boure. ther this berde dwellyd Confortynge hure as thei couthe.-Piers Plouhman, p. 38. So mote I thrive, I shal at cockes crow Ful prively go knocke at his window, That stant ful low upon his boures wall.

Chaucer. The Miller's Tale, v. 3674.

And in a launde, vpon an hill of floures
Was set this noble goddesse Nature,
Of branches were her halles and boures
Ywrought, after her craft and her measure.
Id. The Assemblie of Foules.

Giue me my lute in bed now as I lie
And lock the doores of mine vnluckie bower:
So shall my voyce in mournfull verse discrie
The secrete smart which causeth me to lower.
Gascoigne. A Lady, &c. doth thus bewray her Grief.

The next day the lordes of Fraunce, who hadde lost their tentes and their prouisyons, thanne took counsayle to lodge in bowers of trees. more nerer to the towne.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 80.

Thee lastly nuptial bowre, by me adornd
With what to sight or smell was sweet: from thee
How shall I part.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.
"Come, kinsman," said the little god,
"Put off your wings, lay by your rod;
Retire with me to yonder bower,
And rest yourself for half an hour."

Prior. Mercury & Cupid.
More happy! laid where trees with trees entwin'd
In bowery arches tremble to the wind,
With innocence and shade like Adam blest,
While a new Eden opens in the breast.

Broome. Epist. to Mr. E. Fenton.

He keeps a garden where the spices breathe,
Its bowering borders kiss the vale beneath;
'Tis there he gathers lilies, there he dwells,
And binds his flowerets to unite their smells.

Parnell. The Gift of Poetry.

[He] plac'd thy green and grassy shrine, With myrtle bower'd and jessamine.

Warton. Ode on the Approach of Summer.

Far happier thou, in this sequester'd bower,
To shroud thy poet, who, with fost'ring hand,
Here bade thee flourish, and with grateful strain
Now chants the praise of thy maturer bloom.

Mason. The English Garden, b. iii.

O! what descriptive eloquence can tell
The woods and winding walks of Boscobell?
The various vistas, and the grassy glades,
The bowery coverts in sequester'd shades?

Any thing round or rolling; a round body to roll upon the ground; a round or circular bodyhollow-to contain liquids; a round or circular hollow.

And whyle the kynge was shyppinge of his men, one broughte forthe a bolle full of mede or meth to drynke vpon bon vyage, and after that came bowl after bowl, so that after drynke came dronkennes, and after iangelynge, and iangelynge tourned into strife, and stryfe tourned into fyghtinge, where through many were slayne.

Fabyan. Edw. the Conf. an. 1053.

The bowle is round, and doth down slide,
Eche one thrusteth, none doth uphold,
A fall failes not, where blinde is guide,
The stay is gone, who can him hold?

Vncertaine Auctors. Totus Mundus, &c

A gentle state, where two such tenis balles
Are tossed still and better bowles let lie.

Gascoygne. Voyage into Holland. Garlick indeed should not be suffered to boll and run up to seed, and therefore the blade thereof ought to be wreathed. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 6.

A little boll or cup, to sacrifice and offer unto the gods withall.-Holland. Livivs, p. 611.

Placed it [the obeliske] was in the middest of the shewplace, and upon it a bowle or globe of brasse set, glittering with thin plates of gold.-Id. Ammianus, p. 84.

He [Antigonus] espied upon a time within his camp, certaine common souldiers playing at the ball and bowling, having their corslets on their backs, and their morions upon their heads, he took a great pleasure therein.

Id. Plutarch, p. 341. An. Alas I had rather be set quick i'th' earth, And bowl'd to death with turnips.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives, Act iii. sc. 4. Breake all the spokes and fellies from her wheele, And boule the round naue downe the hill of heauen, As low as to the fiends. Id. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2.

The captains and commanders were then it seems at bowls upon the Hoe at Plymouth; and the tradition goes, that Drake would needs see the game up; but was soon prevail'd on to go and play out the rubbers with the Spaniards. Oldys. Life of Ralegh.

The right side of the pall old Egeus kept,
And on the left the royal Theseus wept;
Each bore a golden bowl, of work divine,
With honey fill'd, and milk, and mix'd with ruddy wine.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, pt. iii.