The barcke perceiuyng this small Craer to bee an Englisheman, shot at hym and bouged hym, wherfore the Craer drewe streight to the greate ship, and sixe or seuen of the men, leapt into the barke.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 37. Thus they launching out into the maine sea be either drowned there, their shippe bouged for that purpose, or els doe cast themselues ouer-boord headlong into the sea. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 86. The Spaniards made no more adoe, but fastning their apparrell to bouges of lether like bladders, full of wind, and laying their bucklers thereupon, sat aloft and passed over nimbly.-Holland. Livivs, p. 408. For it soundeth not like a truth, that horsemen with their armor and horses safe could overcome so great a rage of the river, although we should graunt that all the Spaniards gat over upon blown bladders and leathern bouges.-Id. Ib. p.420. BOUGE. Fr. " Bouche, a mouth; also, a passage, entry, entrance, or overturn into. Avoir bouch à Court: to eat and drink scot-free; to have budge-a-Court, to be in ordinary at Court," (Cotgrave.) Mr. Gifford observes, that "bouge of Court was an allowance of meat-and-drink for the tables of the inferior officers, and others who were occasionally called to serve and entertain the Court." (B. Jonson's Workes, vol. vii. p. 228. n. 1.) See BOMB, for other examples of Bouge. It appears to have meant merely free entrance or access, ingress and egress. I am an officer, groom of the revels, that is my place. Not. To fetch bouge of court a parcell of invisible bread, and beere for the plaiers (for they never see it.) B. Jonson. Masque of Augures. BOUGH, or A. S. Bug-an, to bow, (qv.) Bow The bow of a tree is so called, because it bows or bends from the stem or trunk. And see it by ensample of trees in somer tyme There might men does and roes ysee Wyat. The Lover's Life compared to the Alpes. And after that goodly disport was passyd, the kyng comaunded his offycers to brynge the mayer and his company vnto a pleasaunt lodge made all of greene bowys, and garnisshed with tables and other thinges necessary. Fabyan. Edw. V. an. 1482. Take hede least whiles thou dost labour to attein to the top, thou fallest with the bowes which thou doest embrace. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 198. Yet comfort comes againe, when from the roote Sir J. Beaumont. Bosworth Field. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure. Spectator, No. 414. And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime Young. Complaint, Night 5. BOUGHT, or bow; to bend, to turn. See The bought of a serpent; the flexures, bends, curves, folds or involutions. The bought of the knee or elbow (in the north called beight) is the flexure or curvature of the knee or elbow. A winding bout;-an involution. Another bout;-another turn. The bout of a sling, is the bent leather upon which the stone or thing to be thrown is laid. The wrath (as I began you for to say) Id. Troil. & Cres. b. v. BOUN, or Ray, To boun or unboun, is to BOUND. dress, and undress; perhaps from the Dut. Bouwen, to build, to manure. Boon Piers Plouhman, p. 277. days, are those days which the tenants are obliged to employ for the benefit of their lord, gratis.-Boun (boun-ed), bound, are, in Scotch, and also in northern parts of England, very common words: Whither are ye bound? I am bound for such a place; the Gloss. to G. Douglas interprets Ready, adopting the etymology of Skinner, the A. S. Abund-en, expeditus, from the verb Bind-an, to bind; and, agreeing with him that it is a metaphor from military service, in which the men, when prepared for march, have all their baggage bound up, (whence he adds the Lat. accingi ad iter.) Dr. Jamieson thinks the true origin is the Sw. Boa, to prepare. rite Ihre interprets Rede-boen, paratus. (i. e. ready boun,) ready or already prepared; Far-boen, færda-boen, prepared for a journey, prepared to go. Ready boun is a common Scotch phrase, (and see the quotation from Ipomydon, infra.) The Sw. Boa is the Dut. Bouwen (proposed by Ray); Ger. Bauen; A. S. By-an, to build :-consequentially, to construct, to contrive, to provide, to prepare, also to till; or, as Ray says, to manure, to dress the land. Boun, bone, or boon, (see the quotations from R. Brunne and Piers Plouhman,) then, is and to Prepared, or provided, dressed, ready be bound to any place; Prepared or provided, furnished or supplied (with freight or cargo, as a ship bound to Brazil. ) I am bound, to go to such a place, to do such a thing; prepared, ready, to go; on the start, on the way; ready to do it, on the point of doing it. In Spenser : "The way that does to heaven rally, to be bound is— bound;" i. e. prepare, fit, lead, guide: and, gene To be on the way or voyage, on the road, in the course. But bow all knees, now of her knees And, as shee lay vpon the durtie ground, He passing by with rolling wreathed pace, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God, and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. [The Margin says, Hebr. in the midst of the bought of a sling.] Bible. 1 Sam. xxv. 29. Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.-Milton. L'Allegro. The different flexure and order of the joints might also countenance the same; being not disposed in the elephant, as they are in other quadrupeds, but carry a nearer conformity into those of man; that is, the bought of the forelegs, not directly backward, but laterally and somewhat inward; but the hough or suffraginous flexure behinde rather outward.-Browne. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 1. the verb, to buy, (qv.) BOUGHT. The past tense and past part. of Wanne yt come byuore hym, he nolde therof nogt, O glotonie, full of cursednesse; O cause first of our confusion, O original of our damnation, Till Crist had bought us with his blood again. Ipomydon said, "I shall you tell Ipomydon. Life. Ellis. Rom. vol. iii. O holy sire, quoth he, how shall I quight The many favours I with thee have found, That hast my name and nation redd aright, And taught the way that does to heaven bound!' Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. His be that care whom most it doth concerne, Sayd he; but whither, with such hasty flight, Art thou now bound? Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 4. Jan. 31. 1577. We took a Portugall, laden the best part with wine, and much good cloth :-bound for Brasill. Sir F. Drake. The World Encompassed. Tell me, ye Trojans, for that name you own; Nor is your course upon our coasts unknown :Say what you seek, and whither were you bound? • • • • Willing we sought your shores, and hither bound, This cape [Blanco] lies in the lat. of 4° 15' south, and is always made by ships bound either to windward or to leeward.-Anson. Voyage, b. ii. c. 7. ner. BOUNCE, v. Vox a sono ficta, says SkinBOUNCE, n. Perhaps from Bounds, BOUNCER. bounts, bounce. See BOUND, BOUNCING, n. infra, to which bounce is equivalent, and Scotch, to bount, in Jamieson. Met. to boast; to crack. This sodaine chaunge when he began to spye Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. They waste their winde in sighes, they bleare their eyes with brine: They breake their bulcks with bouncing grief, their harts with lingring pine. Turberville. Of the Torments, &c. With that he gave her a bounce Full vpon the gorge.-Skelton. Ware the Hawke. Yet still he bet and bounst vpon the dore, And thundred strokes thereon so hideously, That all the peece he shaked from the flore, And filled all the house with feare and great vp-rore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 2. grated cages, and made more fierce and cruell with their As savage beasts with keene and fell teeth kept up in foule and filthie keeping, upon hope to get out, rush and bounce against the barres that turne and wind within their sockets.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 129. Pel. To bestride The frothy foams of Neptune's surging waves, When blust'ring Boreas tosseth up the deep And thumps a louder bounce. Ford. The Lover's Melancholy, Act i. 1. A sylvan life till then the natives led, As I was sitting in my chamber, and thinking on a subject for my next Spectator, I heard two or three irregular bounces at my landlady's door, and upon the opening of it a loud chearful voice inquiring whether the philosopher was at home.-Spectator, No. 383. The heroines undertook the task, Through lanes unknown, o'er stiles they ventur'd, Rap'd at the door, nor stay'd to ask, But bounce into the parlour enter'd.-Gray. Long Story. At this information I could instantly perceive the widow bounce from her seat; but correcting herself, she sat down again, repressed by motives of good breeding. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 70. BOUND. See BIND, BOND. BOUND, v. To bound, Skinner says, BOUND, n. is from the Fr. Bondir, to Bo'UNDING-STONE. be struck back, to leap back, to be dashed back, from the Lat. Undare, Abundare, Redundare, because a ball, when struck back, commeat et remeat instar undarum. But Rebound, (to which he refers, and which he explains to signify-to be driven back as a ball,) he derives from the It. Rimbombare, to resound as an echo, from the Gr. Boμßos, Boußew, to bomb, or hum. Fr. " Bondir, to bound, to rebound, to leap, jump, jert, skip, rise (suddenly and swiftly) up The erle wist it sone, in him was no defaute, So dreadfully he towards him did pas, Spenser. The Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. 'Tis strange! the pilot keeps his seat; His bounding ship does so curvet, In their own fears already drown'd.-Cotton. Winter. This discourse did breath The fiery boundings of his heart, that still Lay in that æsture.-Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx. I've seen a huntsman, active as the morn, BOUND, v. BOUND, A. Low Lat. Bonna, borna, or bunda, bonnare; Fr. Bonne, or borne, borner. Abonner, aborner, to fix the bourn or bound; to include, BOUNDLESSNESS. or inclose within limits; to bound, or (with the mere difference of the interchangeable letters b, and p,) to pound, from the A. S. verb Pynd-an, to inclose. To include or inclose, within limits or confines; to limit, to confine, to restrict or restrain; to determine or terminate. For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard Prior. Solomon, b. i. Or race of youthful and vnhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, God has given no man a body as strong as his appetites: Blacklock. Desiderium Lutetiæ. BOUNDARY. BOUNDER. BOUNDLESS. or First the nemnid alle the, That thorgh the reame suld go, the boundes forto stake. Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,121. Why doest thou rather put into his head howe farre he may extende the boundes of his dominions, then put him in remembrance with howe narrowe lymites the seignorie, which he hath nowe at this present, was in old tyme bounded.-Udal. Mark, Pref. p. x. While Peirce and Plowmā hopes to picke a thāke, So maye the feare of infamy, dishonour and dyspraise, refraine and restrayne them fro euyl, and some tyme holesomely brydle and conteine them within the limites & boundes of good and honorable order. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 622. For let vs first consider the breadth and bignesse of this burning zone (which as euery man man knoweth, is 47. degrees) each tropicke, which are the bounders thereof, being 23. degrees and a halfe distant from the equinoctiall. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 48. Which to outbarre, with paineful pyonings From sea to sea he heapt a mighty mound, Which from Alduid to Panwelt did that border bound. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10. Whose circled waters rapt with whirling sway In his miracles, hee loves ever to meet nature in her bounds; and when shee hath done her best, to supply the rest by his overruling power.-Bp.Hall. Cont. Simon called. But, Sir with what possibilitie can your constitution be so boundlessly amorous as to affect all women of what degree, forme or complection soeuer? And him, whom all the skill and power of armes did late attend, Now like a man in counsell poore, that (trauelling) goes amisse, And (hauing past a boundlesse plaine) not knowing where he is, Comes on the sudden, where he sees a riuer rough. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v. 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. This maid, of which I tell my tale expresse, Of comly hede, and of feture, Be liche hir in comparison.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Stowe. 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 immediate execution of Rhynsault.-Spectator, No. 491. For Providence decrees, that we obtain With toil each blessing destin'd to our use; 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 difficulties 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. Fr. Bourde, scoffs, jeasts, BOURD, n. gibes, cuts, quips, (Cotgrave. ) Bo'URDING. 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 beTo 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; Id. The Manciples Prol. v. 17,026 At length her self bordeth Æneas thus, Unfaithful wight, to cover such a fault, Coldest thou hope? Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv "streams of water" being "the most distinguishable aboriginal divisions of property." (See BOURN, Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. infra.) The Bourn of Spenser is previously denoted a river, st. 2. See the quotation from Stow. She smote her breast and rushing through the rout; And her dieng she cleapes thus by her name. Ye should not, sir, in a strange land, Sir Eger. Ellis. Rom. vol. iii. They all agreed so turning all to game Whom thus at gaze the Palmer gan to bord Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 2. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 11. The wisard could no longer beare her bord Burden, or Burthen, (qqv.) BOURDON, n. Spenser. On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney. BOURGEON, v. Į Sursum geminans is renBo'URGEON, n. dered by Wiclif — buriownynge 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.) occasion, or if you like my uncle's wit better than mine, limit, meere, march; the end or furthest compass Fr. Bonne or Borne, a bound, I am wise enough to tell you I can bourd where I see BOURN. you shall marry me. of a thing, (Cotgrave.) Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act iii. sc. 5. Gramercy, Borril, for thy company, For the etymology, see To BOUND OF INCLOSE. For all thy jests, and all thy merry bourds, 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. Thus Cham his broode did burgeon first, Warner. Albion's England, b. i. c. 1. Also they have devised, that the said impe to be engrafted, be gathered from the tree when it beginneth to bud or burgen. Holland. Plinie, b. i. c. 15. Her loathly leare Furthermore looke what is the nature that forked trees have in their boughes, the same hath the vine in her eyes and burgeons.-Id. Ib. b. xvi. c. 30. When first on trees burgen the blossomes soft, And gath'reth seed so from the fruitfull winde. Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act i. sc. 1. She Beverley salutes, whose beauties so delight, BOURN. A. S. Byrna, burn; Dut. Born; Ger. Born, brunn; Sw. Brunna, A well, spring, fountain. Junius and Wachter think it is from the Gr. Bpue, to spring or flow forth. Ihre, from Rinnan, be-rinnan, brinnan, to run. See an example from Milton in v. BOSKY. Perilous bourne in Spenser is, in st. 38 of the same Canto, called perilous shard and T. Warton thinks that Bourne here, and perhaps always, means boundary: : or Ne care ne feare I how the wind do blow 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. Fawke. The Sparrow. BOUSE. The Dut. Buyse is, (according to To drink largely, sottishly; to swill. We'll see when 'tis enough, when both eyes out, Rous'd at his name, up rose the bowsy sire, King. The Art of Cookery. Pope. Dunciad, b. iv. Your delicacy suits with theirs.-Cambridge. Painting. BOUT. See BOUGHT. Here, tyrant, take a taste of my good-will, 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 notorious sectarist, an indefatigable boutefeu, and promoter of the discontents and rebellion that followed. Wood. Athena Oxon. W. Laud. Bo'WER. Ulyss. I will not praise thy wisdom, Bo'WYER. Which like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines Bow, the noun, whether ap- particular kind of knot; or the curved part of a Wiclif renders the Lat. declinare, vitare, (sc. to R. Brunne, p. 39. By worshippyng, whether it was in the olde testament, or newe, vnderstand the bowing of a mans self vpon the ground: as we ofte tymes, as we kneele to our prayers bow our selues, and lie on our armes & hands with our face to the ground. Tyndal. Workes, p. 11. Then all the gonnes seuered them selues into one place, the pykes in another, and the bowmen in another. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 31. When the Turke was arriued, he bent his ordinance toward the towne and did no great harm, when he saw that the walles were of that defence that ordinaunce did litle harme, he caused all his pyoners to cast yearth one banke ouer another styl, tyll they came within a bowshot of the Drayton. Nymphidia. wall.-Grafton. Hen. VIII. an. 14. They vse little drummes at their sadle bowes, by the sound whereof their horses vse to runne more swiftly. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 314. Wyllyam shot so wonderous well, And the fyre so fast upon hyin fell, That hy's bowstryng 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. Sanela Maria Dolorum. So fairely 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 Visses viewing, ere he tried to draw The famous bow; which euery way he mou'd; Yp, and downe turning it; in which he prou'd The plight it was in: fearing chiefly, lest The bornes were eate with wormes, in so long rest: While some deriding-"How he turns the bow! Pope. Homer. Ib. On his bow-back he hath a battle set Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Doth not the ox obedient bow BOWEL, v. Fr. Boyau, boyaux; It. BuBo'WEL, n. dello, which Menage derives Bo'WELS. from the Lat. Botellus. Junius Bo'WELLESS. 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 Is-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. In Turkey, where the place, where the fortune, where the head itself, are so insecure, that scarcely any have died in their beds for ages; so that the bow-string is the natural death of Bashaws, yet in no country is power and distinction precarious enough, God knows, in all) sought for with such boundless avidity, as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and insecurity of its tenure. Burke. Speech on the Duration of Parliaments. And verily, Homer seemeth not to be ignorant of this difference whereof we speak; for of diviners and soothsayers, some he calleth oavoroλovs, i. e. augurs, that is to say authours or observers of birds; others iepers, 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. Dryden. The Flower & the Leaf. branches of trees. She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, BOWER, v. "A. S. Bur, bure, conclave, Bo'WER, n. an inner chamber, a parlour, a Bo'WERY. 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 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. He keeps a garden where the spices breathe, [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, Mason. The English Garden, b. iii. O! what descriptive eloquence can tell BOWL. v. Fr. Boule; It. Balla, palla; Sp. Bolla; Dut. Bol; Ger. Bol, from the Ger. Bol-en, to roll. Bowl, patera rotunda; A. S. BolGer Bulle, Wachter derives from the same verb, Bol-en, volvere, rotare. A bowl or ball is— la; 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. Fawke. Bramham Park. 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. While one doth bring A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree, Praising it by the story, or the frame, Or want of use, or skilful maker's name. Bp. Hall. Defiance to Envy. 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. And whan he had it thrice radde, Cleopatra was in such a rage with him, that she flew upon him, and took him by the hair of the head, and boxed him well-favouredly.-North. Plutarch, p. 783. They cause a chambermaid to enter into her [Matata] temple, and there they box her about the ears.-Id. Ib. p. 115. A. Gellius tells of a boy that would give every one that he met a box on the ear.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 24. Faith, they may hang their harps upon the willows; Where Slack is made to box with Broughton, I see the very stage they fought on. Cambridge. A Dialogue. A tilt or tournament, the martial diversions of our ancestors, was however an unlawful act; and so are boxing and sword playing, the succeeding amusement of their posterity. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 14. He grew one day very uneasy in bed, and a gentleman Goldsmith. Particulars relative to Charles XII. Churchill. The Ghost, b. iv. BOY, v. Male infants; then to male children, beyond the period of infancy. See GIRL. By Cryst quath Peers Plouhman tho. theese pvbes wolle ich showe To beggers and to boyes. that loth ben to worcke. Udal. Luke, c. 3. North. Plutarch, p. 42. Mir. 'Tis not thy cause,- If boxing were ever to become a spectacle patronised by Emongst the poets new or ould, princes, and encouraged by a people, there would be reason to fear lest man, as man, had lost his value, lest life were where shall we place him (lo,) Drant. Horace. Ep. b. ii. To Augustus Sir T. More. Workes, p. 410 that the Lat. Pupus is a little boy; of Tyndales tonge, as I trust yet to intreat hym hereafter. and Pupa, a little girl. The Ger. Bub, is perhaps formed from Bubu; which Wachter calls the natural voice of children, asking for drink. The Eng. Babe, (qv.) the Gr. Пa-is, the Lat. Pu-er, pu-pus, pupa ;-Pa-pa, common to so many tongues, all seem to derive their origin from the natural cry of children. The Lat. Pupus and pupa, receive a sexual distinction from their terminations. The Ger. Bub; Eng. Boy, are applied first to Is his a boyish fault, that you should deem He [Ovid] had complain'd he was farther off from poss sion, by being so near, and a thousand such boyisms, whi Chaucer rejected as below the dignity of the subject. Dryden. Pref. to Fabl One boy of ten, and another of nine years old, who h killed their companions, have been sentenced to death, a he of ten years actually hanged; because it appeared up their trials, that the one hid himself, and the other hid ti body he had killed, which hiding manifested a consciousne of guilt, and a discretion to discern between good and evil Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. Nor can I think Then Milton had indeed a poet's charms: Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iii. sc. 2. Mount. And for the boy, the grave Gomera gave thee, Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of Malta, Act ii. sc. 3. strengthen, to fasten, to confine, to restrain. A brace of dogs, as Skinner remarks, is a couple of dogs, dogs braced or coupled together: and from usage, restricted in number to two. Brace the n. and bracelet are applied, particularly, to armour, or ornaments bracing or binding the arm; brace, to a certain part of the rigging of a ship: to certain timbers which are to brace or hold together. If they meet with one who can relate the order of a feas or great dinner, discourse from point to point of a solemn shew or pompe, tell a tale of some dreame, or make repor of a quarrell and brablement between him and another, the harken with great silence, bid him say on, and will miss never a circumstance.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 44. Dol. We hold our time too precious to be spent BRACE, v. Lat. Brachium; It. Braccio To hold, bind, or tie together; to tighten, to Upon his arm he bare a gaie bracer, I spie a bracelet bounde about mine arme, |