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. Athene 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 difliculty 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.
BOIL, n.
BOILING.

Fr. Bouillir; It. Bollire; Sp. Bullir; Lat. Bullire; perhaps from the Gr. Baλew, to throw, to BOILER. 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 Wielif 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.

Roynouse scabbes

Bules and blotches, and brennyng aguwes
Frenesyes and foule uveles.-Piers Plouhman, p. 396.

For certes whan the pot boileth strongly, the best remedy is to withdraw the fire.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

The stomake koke is for the hall,
And boyleth meate for them all
To make hem mightie for to serue
The herte, that he shall not sterue.

Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Then boyld my breast with flame and burning wrath, To reuenge my town vnto such ruin brought: With worthy peins on her to work my will. 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! When as their boiling bosoms, in the fight, Felt not the sharp steel thorough them to slide. 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.

Wherefore here of your gentilness
I you require my boistousnesse
Ye let passe, as thing rude

And heareth what I wold conclude
And of the enditing taketh no heed

Ye of the termes, so God you speed.-Id. Dreame.
When dreadful swelling seas, through boysterous windy
So tosse the ships that all for nought serves ancor, saile,
and mastes:

blasts,

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. Ænæis, 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

corne

Doth burne,

The plowman wayling from the rock beholds and heares the sound. Phaer. Ib. These hast thou exhorted as a father, & proued them: but vnto the other yu haste bene a boysterous kynge, laied harde to their charge, & cōdened them.

Bible, 1551. B. of Wisdome, c. 11.

She holds no longer hande,
But (tygerlike) she toke
The little boy ful boistrously
Who now for terror quooke.

Gascoigne. Complaint of Phylomene.

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 febienes, 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,
Puft up by mighty winds, does hoarsely roar ;
And beating with his waves the trembling shore,
His sandy girdle scorns, and breaks earth's rampart do
P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c.
For he [David] before had not been us'd to these,
Nor him at all their boist'rousness can please;
His gorget gall'd his neck, his chin beneath.
And most extremely hinder'd him to breathe.
Drayton. David & Golić
Spread then towards Vulcan's shores thy speedy wing,
Where round his anvils ceaseless hammers ring.
Bid him no more his boisterous bellows ply,
Till heaven-built Argo sail securely by.

Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius, b. i On the contrary he took the fact for granted, and so joine 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 unentertair ing, behaved with the boisterousness of men elated by rece: authority.-Johnson. Life of Prior.

BO'LARY, adj. Of or pertaining to the specie of clayey earth, called Bol-armoniac. Lat. Bolu Armeniæ, a kind of earth found in Armenia (Minshew.)

The magnes carneus is nothing else but a weak, an inani mate kind of loadstone, veined here and there with a few magnetical and ferreous lines; but chiefly consisting of a bolary and clammy substance; whereby it adheres lik hematites, or terra lemnia, unto the lips.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3

Fr. Baud; It. Baldo; Dut Boude; A. S. Bald, Byld, Gebyld, audax. A. S. Byldan, to BO'LDHEDE. build, to confirm, to establish, to BOLDLY. make firm, and sure and fast, to BOLDNESS. consolidate, to strengthen. And thus (adds Tooke) a man of confirmed courage: i. e. a confirmed heart, is properly said to be a builded, built, or bold man, who, in the A. S. is termed byld, bylded, ge-byld, ge-bylded, well as bald. The A. S. words Bold and Bolt; i. e. builded, built, are both likewise used indifferently for what we now call a building, (i. e. builden) or strong edifice, (Tooke, ii. 129.) See BOLD, infra.

as

To bold or bolden; is to confirm the courage, to give additional courage; or as we now say, to encourage or embolden (qv.)

Bold, the adj., is also applied to the extreme of courage, to that which is a daring, audacious, impudent: as well as to that which is

Fearless, intrepid, dauntless, courageous. that which is

To

Well, firmly, built; strongly constructed, either in nature or art, as a bold coast; or, in painting or statuary, a bold figure.

BOLD, v. BOLD, adj. BOʻLDEN.

Hony & mylk ther ys muche. mony folk & bolde.
This ys the stat of Yrlond, as iche habbe y tolde.
R. Gloucester, p. 43.
Thise kynges nen dred, & alle the world tham knewe.
For alle ther grete boldehed, the dede git doun tham threwe.
R. Brunne, p. 340
Boldely thie camen, & schewed tham to his face
Fell it to gode or grame, thie did tham in his grace.
Id. p. 327

Now has Eilred nede of help & socoure,
For bolednes he wild him bynd to som berde in boure.
Id. p. 40.

Be ge nevere the boldere to breke the ten hestes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 164.
Anticrist thus sone hadde hundredes at hus baner
And pruyde bar tht baner boldeliche aboughte.--Id. p. 395

Ask an Englishman, however, whether he is afraid of death. and he boldly answers in the negative; but observe his behaviour in circumstances of approaching sickness, and you w. find his actions give his assertions the lie.

Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 12. He well knew the savage and unrelenting temper of that sanguinary tyrant; he knew that this boldness of expostulation would sooner or later bring down upon him the whole weight of his resentment.-Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 3.

BOLD, from Built, build-en, or as we now say, build-ing. See BOLD above.

But this well tnat I here reherse
So holsome was, that would aswaig
Bollen hartes, and venem peerce
Of pensifehed, with all the cruel rage.

From Londone to Wynchestere he wende to se there The fayre halle, & other bold, that hys fader let rere. R. Gloucester, p. 383. That ich ther vppe mowe a siker bold a rere.-Id. p. 116. BOLL, v. Ger. Bol; any thing which has BOLL, п. a round, globular, or spherical BOʻLNINGS. form or shape, from Bolen, vertere, volvere, rotare, (Wachter.) See BALL. and BowL. To boll, is to round by circumvolution, by rotation; and then, generally, to round, to rise out in a round form or shape, to swell out.

Wiclif renders inflationes, bolnings.

Ghe ben bolnun with pride.-Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 5.

Lest perauenture stryuyngis, enuyes, sturdenessis, dissenciouns, and detracciouns, priuy spechis of discord, bolnyngis bi pride, debatis ben among ghou-Id. Gal. c. 12.

VOL. I.

And by the throte-bolle he caught Alein
And he him hent despitously again,
And on the nose he smote him with his fist.
Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4270.

If I were a fleshly felowe, & a preacher of lyes, and told them that they might syt bebbynge and bollynge & be droncken: O that were a prophete for thys people. Bible, 1551. Micheas, c. 2.

Chaucer. The Blacke Knight.

The flaxe & the barly were smytten for the barly was shot vp and the flax was boulled; but the wheate and the rye were not smitten, for they ware late sowen.

Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 9.

Drawn at a cart as he of late had be,
Distained with bloody dust, whoes feete were bowlne
With the streight cordes wherewith they haled him.
Surrey. Virgile. Ænæis, b. ii.

But after that his bodye began to bolne wt strypes, and that he coulde not abide the scourges which pearced vnto ye bare bones.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, p. 168.

He thought it the acte of a wyse man in tyme to get him to a restyng place, and to leaue ye followyng of such a doubtfull captayne, which with a leaden sword would cut his own throte bolle.-Hall. Hen. IV.

The goodly bole, being got To certaine cubits height, from every side The boughes decline, which taking roote afresh, Spring up new boles, and those spring new, and newer, Till the whole tree become a porticus, Or arched arbour, able to receive

B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph.

All fell upon the high-hair'd okes and doune their curled browes

Fell busling to the earth; and up went all the boles and bowes. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii.

Yet Phœbus loves her still, and, casting round
Her bole, his arms, some little warmth he found.
Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i.

I lopp'd the branchy head; aloft in twain
Sever'd the bole, and smooth'd the shining grain;
Then posts, capacious of the frame I raise,
And bore it, regular, from space to space.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xxiii.

And sevring near the root its solid bole,
I smooth'd the rugged stump, till it became
A pedestal, and, squaring it by line,
Fam'd next the shapely pillar.

BOʻLSTER, v. BO'LSTER, n. BO'LSTERED. BO'LSTERER. BOLSTERING.

The pipe (for 'twas a pipe of soul)
Raising himself upon his bole,
In smoke, like oracle of old,
Did thus his sentiments unfold.

Cowper. Ib.

Smart, Fab. 16.

A. S. Bolster, bolstre; Dut. Bolster; Ger. Polster, from Boll. (See BOLL.) And Ster, or Stre, is perhaps A. S. Stre, straw. A ball

or roll of straw.

To bolster is to put or place a bolster; or any thing in shape or form of a bolster, (sc.) as a support; and thus, consequentially, to raise, to uphold, to sustain, or to support.

And in so great confusion emong sondry nacions, sondry sectis shall aryse bolstred vp by manis witte & reason concerning God's worship inuented by man and the iustificacion by workes.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, Argum.

Ye saye, it is a perfight ymitatio of Christ. What a shamelesse lye is thys, and what a bolde bragge to bolster out fylthynesse.-Bale. Apology, p. 134.

Wo be vnto you, that sowe pillowes vnder al arme hooles, and bolsters vnder the heads both of younge & olde, to catche soules withal.-Bible, 1551. Ezek. c. 13.

Which blyndnes it pleased God by his secrete counsel to from so great a bolsterer of the lawe into a preacher of the suffer for a tyme, to thentent, that I being sodenly chaunged gospel, myght by myne example drawe and prouoke many to Christe.-Udal. Galath. c. 2.

For who durst begyn suche a ryot, as to enterprise to sle the erles bayly, holdynge the erles baner in his handes, doying his office, without some bolsterer or coforter in their dede.--Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 350.

If this chaplayn had mynded the preferemente of a veryte, as he did the bolsterynge oute of a falshede, he had there more aduisedlye marked thys wurde possunt, whyche carryeth all the wayght of the whole matter.

Bale. Apology, fol. 41.

On the world's idols I do hate to smile,

Nor shall their names e'er in my page appear, To bolster baseness I account it vile.

Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 5 The smell of wormewood procureth sleepe; or if it be laid under the pillow or bolster, provided alwaies that the patient be not ware of it.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxvii. c. 7.

But when the eyes be dressed with this bloud, it would not be forgotten, that there bee a thin bolster boiled in noney, laid aloft, yea, and a locke of greasie wooll upon it, which had been soaked either in oile or wine. Id. Ib. b. xxix. c. 6. Corruption, springing from his canker'd breast, Furs up the channel, and disturbs his rest, With head propt up the bolster'd engine lies; If pillow slipt aside, the monarch dies.

Dryden. Suum Cuique.

BOLT, v. To bolt,- -as to bolt the door, is BOLT, n. to fasten the door, to strengthen it; to throw to a bolt, i. e. as now applied, to throw to that by which a door, or shutter is fastened or strengthened; from the A. S. Byldan, to build, strengthen, or confirm. (See Tooke.) Also, simply

To fasten; to make, to hold or keep, fast; to confine, to constrain.

In Dutch it is Bout, i. e. Boud, the past tense and past part. of Bouwen, to build.

He bolteth their arms with a paulsy, that they cannot lift their hands to their heads.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1246.

So that it was a breach of their Christian liberty belike, to have a lock or a bolt on a door, to keep peculiar possession of any thing from them.-Spelman. On Tithes, p. 157. The bolted gates flew open at the blast, The storm rush'd in, and Arcite stood aghast. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii. Heav'ns and are these the plagues that wait, Around the hospitable gate ? Let tenfold iron bolt my door, And the gaunt mastiff growl before.

Langhorn. To Lord Granby. BOLT, v. (Sc.) To bolt the bran; Dut. Bo'ULTER. Buydelen; Ger. Beutelen; Fr. Bluter; and this latter, Ferrarius derives from the Lat. Aplauda, (Bran.) And Aplauda, according to Wachter, a plodendo, (whence our English, to explode.) See Wachter and Menage.

To force away, to drive out, to sift or separate; (sc.) the fine from the coarse, the good from the bad. See BOLT, infra.

Above all, those judicious collectors of bright parts and flowers, and observanda's, are to be nicely dwelt on, by some

called the sieves or boullers of learning; though it is left undetermined, whether they dealt in pearls or meal; and consequently, whether we are more to value, that which passed through, or what staid behind.

Swift. A Digression in praise of Digression. In short one sentence may the whole discuss, As we with truth, truth coincides with us: This boults the matter fairly to the bran,

And nothing more, wits, bards, deans, doctors can. Harte. An Essay on Reason. The report of the committee was examined, and sifted and bolted to the bran, by a gentleman, whose keen and powerful talents I have ever admired.

Burke. On Regicide Peace, Let. 3. BOLT, v. Dut. Bolt; Ger. Bolz; from the v. Bolen, to throw, which Wachter BOLT, n. thinks is certainly from the Gr. Baλλew, to cast or throw. It admits of conjecture, that to bolt a door, to bolt bran, to bolt out, are usages of the same word, and denote :-to throw, to throw out, to expel, to eject.

To force out or away, to throw or drive out, to eject, to expel, to rush or cause to rush out, to

start out.

The noun is applied, to an arrow from a bow; to a thunder-bolt, a bird-bolt. Upright as a bolt; upright as a dart, straight as an arrow.

The infidel has shot his bolts away,

Till, his exhausted quiver yielding none,

He gleans the blunted shafts that have recoil'd,
And aims them at the shield of truth again.
Cowper. Task, b. vi.

BOMB, v. Fr. Bombarde; It. BomBOMB, n. barda; Sp. Bombarda; Ger. BOMBARD, V. Bombe, bombert; Dut. BomBo'MBARD, n. men, bombannen; which KiBOMBARDIER. lian thinks are words a sono BOMBARDMENT. ficta. Vossius thinks the BOMBILA'TION. same of the Gr. Boußos, and the Lat. Bombus. Bombarda, (a new word, he remarks, for a new thing) a bombo, et ardere, so named because it vomits or throws forth iron balls with a noise and blazing fire,-cum sonitu et flamma. Laurentius Valla, who wrote in 1420, about forty years after the invention of these murthering pieces, as Cotgrave calls them, gives the same opinion.

Bomb; a loud humming noise or sound. Bomb, bombard; a gun or cannon, remarkable for its loud noise, when discharged.

The capitaine with all his retinue departed leuyng behynd the ordinaunce of bombardes, curtawes & demy curtaux, slinges, canons, volgers, and other ordinaunce. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 15.

At the entrynge into the towne there were many slayne and hurte, mo than xl.: the men of the towne were aboue ouer the gate, and caste downe stones, and shotte out bombardes, so that the Englisshemen durste aproche no nerer.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 134.

In Saturn's name, the father of my lord!
What over-charged piece of melancholie
Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus,
With bombing sighs?

B. Jonson. Masques. The Fortunate Isles. Why dost thou conuerse with that trunke of humours, that huge bombard of sacke.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 4.

I answered, we are all masques sometimes with which they knock'd hypocrisie o' the pate, and made room for a bombard man, that brought bouge for a countrey lady or two, that fainted, he said, with fasting, for the fine sight since seven a clock i' the morning.

B. Jonson. Masques. Love Restored. Against which, one day I am to deliver the buttry in, so many firkins of aurum potabile, as it delivers out bombards of budge to them, between this and that.

Id. Mercurie Vindicated. This [Charles Berkley] dying without issue, was succeeded in his honour and estate by his next brother John, afterwards an Admiral at sea, and the same, who with his fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe in France, and bombarded Havre de Grace, in the same country, in July, 1649. Wood. Athenæ Oxon.

Both Telephus, And Peleus, if they seeke to heart-strike us That are spectators, with their miserie, When they are poore, and banish'd must throw by Their bombard-phrase, and foot, and half foot words. B. Jonson. Horace. Art of Poetrie. How to abate the vigor thereof, or silence its bombulation, a way is promised by Porta not onely in general terms by some fat bodies, but in particular by borax and butter mixed in a due proportion; which saith he, will so go off as scarce to be heard by the discharger; and indeed plentifully mixed, it will almost take off the report, and also the force of the charge.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.

Our king thus trembles at Namur;

I

Whilst Villeroy, who ne'er afraid is,

To Bruxelles marches on secure,

To bomb the monks, and scare the ladies.

Prior. On taking Namur. The bombardier tosses his balls sometimes into the midst of a city, with design to fill all around him with terror and combustion. Hi chief aim is at several eminent stations, which he looks upon as the fairest marks, and uses all his skill to do execution upon those who possess them. Every man so situated, let his merit be never so great, is sure to undergo a bombardment. It is further observ'd, that the only way to be out of danger from the bursting of a bomb, is to lie prostrate on the ground; a posture too abject for generous spirits.-Tatler, No. 88.

Nor could an ordinary fleet with bomb-vessels, hope to succeed against a place [Venice] that has always in its arsenal a considerable number of gallies and men of war ready to put to sea on a very short warning.

Addison. Remarks on Italy.

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. Young. Love of Fame, Sat. 4. It is known as a fact that she [France] proposes the ravage of the Ecclesiastical state, and the pillage of Rome, as her first object; that next she means to bombard Naples, to awe, to humble, and thus to command all Italy.

Burke. On the present State of Affairs. From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, &c.

Id. A Vindication of Natural Society. BOMBASIN. Fr. Bombasin; It. Bombagino; Gr. Boußu, a word, as Vossius Lat. Bombyx; thinks, of eastern origin. The ancients (says Skinner) so called

Any soft or delicate wool adapted for weaving garments.

My thighes are thin, my body lanck and leane, It hath no bumbast now, but skin and bones. Gascoigne. Bartholomew of Bath. Lette none outlandishe taylour take disport, To stuffe thy doublet full of such bumbast. Id. Councell Giuen, &c. Thy bodies bolstred out with bumbast and with bagges. Id. Challenge to Beautie. The foresaid merchants transport thither ermines and grey furres, with other rich and costly skinnes. Others carry cloathes made of cotton or bombast.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 93.

This plant is but small, and bringeth forth a fruit resembling the bearded nut or filberd; out of the inner shell or husk whereof [called bombyx] (hereupon, Holland observes, cotton is called bombace,) there breaketh forth a cotton like unto down, so easie to be spun: and there is no flax in the world comparable to it for whiteness and softnesse.--Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 1.

Give me those lines (whose touch the skilful ear to please)
That gliding flow in state, like swelling Euphrates,
In which things natural be; and not in falsely wrong;
The sounds are fine and smooth, the sense is full and

strong;

Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed,
But such as may content the perfect man to read.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 21.
Some braver brain in high heroic rhymes
Compileth worm-eaten stories of old times:
And he like some imperious Maronist,
Conjures the muses that they him assist.
Then strives he to bombast his feeble lines
With far-fetch'd phrase.-Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 4.
Tis not such lines as almost crack the stage
When Bajazet begins to rage;
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.

Cowley. Ode. Of Wit.

By his [Arthur Wilson] endeavouring too much to set out his bare collections in an affected and bombastic stile, they are much neglected.-Wood. Athena Oxon.

BONIFY.

Fr. Bonifier, from the Lat. BO'NIFORM. Bonus, and fio; to become, or cause to become, good; to do good, to benefit. Cudworth is sole authority.

This must be acknowledged to be the greatest of all arts, to bonifie evils, or tincture them with good.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 221.

Knowledge and truth may likewise both be said to be boniform things, and of kin to the chief good, but neither of them to be that chief good itself.-Id. Ib. p. 204.

BONNET, v.

Fr.

Sp. Bonete;

Bo'NNET, n. Dut. Bonet, Sw. Bonad. The

Sw. Bonad, Ihre deduces from Sw. Bo, boa, to prepare, to provide. Wal bodd, he observes, is well clothed; i. e. well prepared or provided, (sc.) against the cold; and hence, Bonad, a clothing, a covering: Hufwud bonad, tegmen capitis;

A clothing or covering of the head. Bonnet is also applied to certain small sails attached to the larger sails.

He bad his folk fyghte harde, With speare, mace, and sweord; And he wolde, after fyght, Bonie londis to heom dyght.

Kyng Alisaunder, 1. 3903. Weber, vol. i.

BOOBY.

Junius thinks that Booby has BO'OBYISH. the same origin as the Scotch Bowbard; namely, the Gr. Boußapas, as heavy as an ox; or, as Hesychius interprets, a great, senseless fellow, (from Bous, an ox; and Bapos, heaviness.) Ruddiman derives Bowbard, from the Lat. Bubo, an owl.

Your bonynes, your bewtie bricht,
Your stately stature, trim and ticht,
Your properties dois all appeir,

My senses to illude. Philolas. Jamieson, in v.

The Eng, Booby is probably no more than an emphatic repetition of boy, (sc.) boy, boy; a boy indeed, a mere boy, having none but boyish, childish qualities and dispositions; a simpleton.

The penguin is called booby, from its stupidity, when in danger of being killed.

In ancient Greece, she says, when Sappho writ,
By their applause the critics show'd their wit,
They tun'd their voices to her lyric string;
Though they could all do something more than sing.
But one exception to this fact we find;
That booby Phaon only was unkind.

Prior. Epilogue to Mr. Manley's Lucius.

The booby, when it comes to his turn, appears quite stupid and insensible. The company divert themselves with his confusion; and sneers, winks, and whispers are circulated at his expense.-Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 82.

BOOK, v. Ger. Buch; Dut. Boek; Book, n. Sw. Book; A. S. Boc, and Bo'OKFUL. also Boc-ian, to book. In BOOKISH. A. S. Boc is also a beech BOOKISHLY. tree. Hence it has been preBOOKISHNESS. sumed by Skinner, amongst Bo'OKLESS. others, that our ancestors BOOKMAN. wrote upon the bark of the Bo'OKWORM. beech tree (faginis corticibus, Skinner), and that the name thus originated. Wachter, supported by learned names, ascribes to it an origin similar to that of the Lat. Volumen, (from Volvere, to roll,) viz. from the Ger. Bug-en; A. S. Bug-an, flectere, convolvere; to bow, to bend, to fold.

To be well booked, in Gower, is to be well read in books; learned in books, booklearned: - -bookman, a man who reads many books; learned in books. A book-worm, (met.) one who feeds on, delights in books.

To book, in modern usage, is to write into a book.

In bygynnynge of this boc me may rede, and nogt lye
Hou muche lond ech of hem adde to ys partye.
R. Gloucester, p. 227.

Thus my boke gan telle, scho tok grete vilanie
Of the Londreis alle, whan scho of London went.
R. Brunne, p. 216.
Wel may the barn blesse. that hym to book sette
That lyvynge after lettrure. savede hym lyf and soule.
Piers Plouhman, p. 236.

And if there any aske me
Whether that it be he or she,
Now this booke, which is here
Shall hite, that I rede you hire
It is the Romaunt of the Rose

In which all the art of loue I close.-Chaucer. R. of the R.

She was well kepte, she was well loked,
She was well taught, she was well boked:
So well she sped hir in hir youth,

That she of euery wysedome couth.-Gower.Con. A. b.viii.

As for the others which had not yet by baptisme booked themselues as souldiers, to fight vnder the baner of Christes capitayne, none durst company with them.-Udal. Actes, c. 5. Lay adoune Thy conference with bokishe muse, and let the shrewe go frowne, That thow maist feede yfeare, vpon

thy hardly purchasde praye.

O bonnie bonnie was her mouth,

And cherry were hir cheiks,

And clear clear was hir zellow hair,

He also remembred this, that his pleasures in reading books were more frequent, while he remembred but little of Whereon the reid bluid dreips.-Edom of Gordon. Percy. Yesterdays study, and to-morrow the book is new, and with its novelties gives him fresh entertainment, while the retaining brain lays the book aside, and is full already. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 22. The young stripling, rather of nature addicted to valiantness than wedded to bookishnesse, choosed to be a traveller. Hollinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1536. What needes me care for anie bookish skill, To blot white papers with my restless quill. Bp. Hall, b. ii. s. 2.

Drant. Horace. Epistle to Lollius.