Bo'REE. n. s. A kind of dancé. Milton. Dick could neatly dance a jig, The master-bricklayer must try all the foundations with a borer, such as well-diggers use to Moxon. try the ground. BORN. The participle passive of bear. Davies. Upon some occasions, Clodius may be bold and insolent, born away by his passion. Swift. To be BORN. v. n. pass. [derived from the word To bear, in the sense of bringing forth: as, my mother bore me twenty years ago; or, I was born twenty years ago.] 1. To come into life. When we are born we cry, that we are come Prior. All that are born into the world are surrounded with bodies, that perpetually and diversly affect Locke. them. . It is usually spoken with regard to cir- A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.. Proverbs. Either of you knights may well deserve Two rising crests his royal head adorn; For all mankind alike require their grace Pope Pope. Swift. I was born to a good estate, although it now turneth to little account. Their lands are let to lords, who, never designed to be tenints, naturally murmur at the payment of rents, as a subserviency they were not born to. Swift. 3. It has usually the particle of before the mother. Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scor The pow'r of man; for none of woman born Shakspeare Shall harm Macbeth. I being born of my father's first wife, and she of his third, she converses with me rather like a Tatler. daughter than a sister. BOROUGH. n. s. [boɲhoe, Saxon.] A borough, as I here use it, and as the old laws. still use, is not a borough town, that is, a franchised town; but a main pledge of an hundred free persons, therefore called a free borough, or, as you say, francplegium. For borth, în old. Saxon, signifieth a pledge or surety: and yet it is so used with us in some speeches, as Chaucer saith, St. John to Borob; that is, for assurance. Spenser. and warranty. 2. A town with a corporation. And, if a borough chuse him not, undone. Pope. BO'ROUGH English, is a customary descent of lands or tenements, whereby, 'in all places where this custom holds, lands and tenements descend to the youngest son; or, if the owner have no issue, to Cowell. his youngest brother. Bo'RREL. n. s. (it is explained by Junius without etymology.] A mean fellow. Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel, To Of heaven to deemen so: Spenser. Howbe I am but rude and borrel, 1. To take something from another upon He borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman, and swore he would pay him again when he was able. Shakspeare. We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. Nehemiah. 2. To ask of another the use of something for a time. 3. Then he said, go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours. 2 Kings. Where darkness and surprize made conquest To take something belonging to an other. A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear; Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king? Shakspeare. They may borrow something of instruction even from their past guilt. Decay of Piety. i was engaged in the translation of Virgil, from whom I have borrowed, only two months. Dryd. These verbal signs they sometimes borrow from others, and sometimes make themselves; as one may observe among the new names children give to things. Locke. Some persons of bright parts have narrow remembrance; for, having riches of their own, they are not solicitous to borrote. Watts. 4. To use as one's own, though not belonging to one. Unkind and cruel, to deceive your son Dryden. Shakspeare. But you invert the cov'nants of her trust; And harshly deal, like an ill borrower, With that which you receiv'd on other terms. Milton. 2. He that takes what is another's, and uses it as his own. Some say, that I am a great borrower; however, none of my creditors have challenged me for it. Pope. Bo'sCAGE. n. s. [boscage, Fr.] We bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land; and, the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it shew the more dark. 2. The representation of woods. Bacon. Cheerful paintings in feasting and banqueting rooms; graver stories in galleries; landskips and boscage, and such wild works, in open terraces, or summer houses. Wotton. Bo'sKY. adi. [bosque, Fr.] Woody. And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down. Shakspeare. I know each land, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side. Milton. BO'SOM. n. s..[borme, borom, Sax.] 1. The embrace of the arms holding any thing to the breast. 2. The breast; the heart. Our good old friend, Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow Your needful counsel to our businesses. Shaks. 3. The folds of the dress that cover the breast. Put now thy hand into thy bosom: and he put his hand into his basom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow. Exod. 4. Enclosure: compass; embrace. Unto laws thus received by a whole church, they which live within the bosom of that church, 5. must not think it a matter indifferent either to yield, or not to yield, obedience. Hooker. The breast, as the seat of the passions. For ever be thy bosom freed. Prier. Unfortunate Fallard! O, who can name The pangs of rage, of sorrow, and of shame, That with mix'd tumult in thy bosom swell'd, When first thou saw'st thy bravest troops repell'd! Addison. Here acting bosoms wear a visage gay, And stified groans frequent the ball and play. Young 6. The breast, as the seat of tenderness. Their soul was poured out into their mother's bosom. Lam. Whose age has charms in it, whose title more, To pluck the common bosoms on his side. Shak. To whom the great Creator thus reply'd: O Son, in whom my soul hath chief delight, Son of my bosom, Son who art alone My word, my wisdom, and effectual might! Paradise Lost. 10. Inclination; desire. Not used. If you can pace your wisdom In that good path that I could wish it go, You shall have your bosom on this wretch. Shak. BOSOM, in composition, implies intimacy, confidence, fondness. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom-interest; go, pronounce his death. Shakspeare. Shakspeart, Those domestick traitors, bosom-thieves, Whom custom hath call'd wives; the readiest helps To betray the heady husbands, rob the easy. Ben Jonsen He sent for his bosom-friends, with whom he most confidently consulted, and shewed the paper to them; the contents whereof he could not conceive. Clarendon. secrets. South. The fourth privilege of friendship is that which is here specified in the text, a communication of A bosom-secret, and a bosom-friend, are usually put together. She, who was a bosom-friend of her royal mistress, he calls an insolent woman, the worst of her sex. To Bo'sOM. v. a. [from the noun.] 2 You'll find it wholesome. I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, Addison. Shakspea And the sweet peace that bosoms goodness ever. To conceal in privacy. Milton. The groves, the fountains, and the flow'rs, That open now their choicest bosom'd smells, Reserv'd for night, and kept for thee in store. Paradise Lost. Bo'soN. n. s. [corrupted from boatswain.] The barks upon the billows ride, The master will not stay; The merry boson from his side His whistle takes, to check and chide Boss. n. s. [bosse, Fr.] Dryden. 1. A stud; an ornament raised above the rest of the work; a shining prominence. What signifies beauty, strength, youth, fortune, embroidered furniture, or gaudy bosses? L'Estrange. This ivory, intended for the bosses of a bridle, was laid up for a prince, and a woman of Caria or Mæonia dyed it. Pope. 2. The part rising in the midst of any thing. He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers. Job. 3. A thick body of any kind. A boss made of wood, with an iron hook, to hang on the laths, or on a ladder, in which the labourer puts the mortar at the britches of the tiles. Moxon. If a close appulse be made by the lips, then is framed M; if by the boss of the tongue to the palate, near the throat, then K. Holder. Bo'sSAGE. n. 3. [In architecture.] 1. Any stone that has a projecture, and is laid in a place in a building to be afterward carved. 2. Rustick work, which consists of stones, which seem to advance beyond the naked of a building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings: these are chiefly in the corners of edifices, and called rustick quoins. Builder's Dict. Bo'sVEL. n. 3. A species of crowfoot. BOTANICAL. adj. [from ßorávn, an herb.] BOTANICK. Relating to herbs; skilled in herbs. Some botanical criticks tell us, the poets have not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity, in metamorphosing the sisters of Phaeton into poplars. Addison. BOTANIST. n. s. [from botany.] One skilled in plants; one who studies the various species of plants. The uliginous lacteous matter, taken notice of by that diligent botanist, was only a collection of corals. Woodward. A Dict. Then spring the living herbs, beyond the power Of botanist to number up their tribes. Thomson. BOTANOLOGY. n. s. [βοτανολογία.] discourse upon plants. BOTANY. n. s. [from Borávn, an herb.] The science of plants; that part of natural history which relates to vegetables. BOTA'RGO. n. s. [botarga, Span.] A relishing sort of food, made of the roes of the mullet fish; much used on the coasts of the Mediterranean, as an incentive to drink. Chambers. BOTCH n. s. [bozza, pronounced botza, Ital.] To leave no rubs or botches in the work, Fleance, his son, must embrace the fate. Shaksp. 3. An adscititious, adventitious part, clumsily added. If both those words are not notorious batches, I am deceived, though the French translator thinks otherwise. Dryden. A comma ne'er could claim A place in any British name; Yet, making here a perfect botch, To BOTH. v. a. [from the noun.] Thrusts your poor vowel from his notch. Swift. 1. To mend or patch clothes clumsily. Their coats, from botching newly brought, Dryden. are torn. 2. To mend any thing awkwardly. To botch up what th' had torn and rent, Hudibras. Religion and the government. 3. To put together unsuitably, or unskilfully; to make up of unsuitable pieces. Go with me to my house, And hear thou there, how many fruitless pranks This ruffian hath lol'd up, that thou thereby May smile at this. Shakspeare. Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection; they aim at it, And batch the words up fit to their own thoughts. Shakspeare. For treason botch'd in rhime will be thy bane; Rhime is the rock on which thou art to wreck. Dryden. 4. To mark with botches. Young Hylas, botch'd with stains too foul to And those biles did run-say so-Did not the general run? Were not that a beteby sore? Shak. BOTE. n. s. [bote, Sax. a word now out of use.] 1. A compensation or amends for a man slain, which is bound to another. Corvell. 2. It was used for any payment. BOTH. adj. [batu, batpa, Sax.] The two; as well the one as the other. Et l'un l'autre, Fr. It is used only of two. Corvell. And the next day, both morning and afternoon, he was kept by our party. Sidney, A ag Moses and the prophets, Christ and his apóstles, were in their times all preachers of God's truth; some by word, some by writing, some by both. Hooker. Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd, If Foth remain alive. Shakspeare. Two lovers cannot share a single bed; As therefore both are equal in degree, The lot of both be left to destiny. Dryden. A Vents and a Helen have been seen Both perjur'd wives, the goddess and the queen.. Granville. BOTH. conj. [from the adjective.] As well: it has the conjunction and to correspond with it. A great multitude both of the Jews and also Acts. of the Greeks believed. Pow'r to judge both quick and dead. Milton. Both the boy was worthy to be prais'd, And Stimichon has often made me long To hear, like him, so sweet a song. Dryden. Bo'TRYOID. adj. [Bolgvoríċns.] Having the form of a bunch of grapes. The outside is thick set with botryoid efflorescencies, or small knobs, yellow, bluish, and purple; all of a shining metallick hue. Woodw. BOTS. n. s. [without a singular.] A species of small worms in the entrails of horses; answering, perhaps, to the as carides in human bodies. Pease and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots. Shakspeare. BOTTLE. n. s. [bouteille, Fr.] His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, Then if thy ale in glass thou wouldst confine, disorder. 2. A quantity of wine usually put into a bottle; a quart. Sir, you shall stay, and take t' other bottle. Spectator. 3. A quantity of hay or grass bundled up. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay; good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. Shak. But I should wither in one day, and pass To a lock of hay, that am a bottle of grass. Donne. To BOTTLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To enclose in bottles. You may have it a most excellent cyder royal, to drink or to bottle. Mortimer. When wine is to be bottled off, wash your bottles immediately before you begin; but be sure not to drain them. Swift. BOTTLE is often compounded with other words; as, bottle-friend, a drinkingfriend; bottle-companion. Sam, who is a very good bottle-companion, has been the diversion of his friends. Addison. BOTTLE-FLOWER. n. s. [cyanus, Lat.] A plant. BOTTLESCREW. n. s. [from bottle and screw.] A screw to pull out the cork. A good butler always breaks off the point of 5. In the purlieus stands a sheep-cote, West of this place; down in the neighbour bet Shakspeare. tom. On both the shores of that fruitful bottom, are still to be seen the marks of ancient edifices. Addison on Italy. Equal convexity could never be seen: the inhabitants of such an earth could have only the prospect of a little circular plain, which would appear to have an acclivity on all sides; so that every man would fancy himself the lowest, and that he always dwelt and moved in a bottom. Bentley. The part most remote from the view the deepest part. His proposals and arguments should with freedom be examined to the bottom, that if there be any mistake in them, no body may be misled by his reputation. 6. Bound; limit. Lecke But there's no bottom, none, In my voluptuousness. Shakspeare 7. The utmost extent or profundity of any man's capacity, whether deep or shallow. I will fetch off these justices: I do see the bottom of justice Shallow: how subject we old men are to lying! Shakspeare. 8. The last resort; the remotest cause; first motion. He wrote many things which are not pub lished in his name; and was at the bottom of many excellent counsels, in which he did not Addison. appear. 9. A ship; a vessel for navigation. We have memory not of one ship that ever re turned, and but of thirteen persons only, at several times, that chose to return in our bettems. Bacen. He's a foolish seaman, That, when his ship is sinking, will not Unlade his hopes into another bottom. Denbas. He puts to sea upon his own bottom; holds the stern himself; and now, if ever, we may expect new discoveries. Norris. He spreads his canvas, with his pole he steers, The freights of flitting ghosts in his thin bettem Dryden. 10. A chance; an adventure; state of ha zard. bears. He began to say, that himself and the prince were too much to venture in one bottom. Claren. We are embarked with them on the same bottom, and must be partakers of their happiness or misery. Spectator 11. A ́ ball of thread wound up together. This whole argument will be like bottoms of thread, close wound up. Silkworms finish their bottoms in about fifteen days. Mortimer. Each Christmas they accounts did clear, And wound their bottom round the year. Prior. 12 BOTTOM of a lane. The lowest end. 13. BOTTOM of beer. The grounds, or dregs. To BOTTOM. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To build upon; to fix upon as a support: with on. They may have something of obscurity, as being bottomed upon, and fetched from, the true nature of the things. Hale. Pride has a very strong foundation in the mind; it is bottomed upon self-love. Collier. The grounds upon which we bottom our reasoning are but a part; something is left out, which should go into the reckoning. Locke. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. To wind upon something; to twist thread round something. Therefore, as you unwind your love for him, Lest it should ravel, and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shaksp. TO BOTTOM. v. n. To rest upon, as its ultimate support. Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced, bottoms; and observe the intermediate ideas, by which it is joined to that foundation upon which it is erected. Locke. Bo' TOMED. adj. [from bottom.] Having a bottom; it is usually compounded. There being prepared a number of flat-bottomed boats, to transport the land-forces, under the wing and protection of the great navy. Bacon. BOTTOMLESS. adj. [from bottom.] Without a bottom; fathomless. Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, than, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. Sidney. Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom? Then be my passions bottomless with them. Shak. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' etherial sky To bottomless perdition. Milton. BOTTOMRY. n. s. [In navigation and commerce.] The act of borrowing r.oney on a ship's bottom; that is, by engaging the vessel for the repayment of it, so as that, if the ship miscarry, the lender loses the money advanced; but, if it arrives safe at the end of the voyage, he is to repay the money lent, with a certain premium or interest agreed on; and this on pain of forfeiting the ship. Harris. BOUCHET. n. s. [French] A sort of pear. BOUD. n. 5. An insect which breeds in malt; called also a weevil. Dict. To BOUGE. v.n. [bouge, Fr.] To swell out. BOUGH. n. s. [bog, Sax. the gh is mute.] An arm or large shoot of a tree, bigger than a branch, yet not always distinguished from it. A vine-labourer, finding a bough broken, took a branch of the same bough, and tied it about the place broken. Sidney. Their lord and patron loud did him proclaim, And at his feet their laurel boughs did throw. Fairy Queen. Immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bought Of linked sweetness, long drawn out. Milton, 2. A flexure. The flexure of the joints is not the same in elephants as in other quadrupeds, but nearer unto those of a man; the bought of the fore-legs not directly backward, but laterally, and somewhat inward. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. BOUILLON. n. s. [French. Broth; soup; any thing made to be supped: à term used in cookery. Bo'ULDER Walls. [In architecture.] Walls built of round flints or pebbles, laid in a strong mortar; used where the sea has a beach cast up, or where there are plenty of flints. Builder's Dictionary.. To BOULT. v. a. See To BOLT. To BOUNCE. v. n. [a word formed, says Skinner, from the sound.] 1. To fall or fly against any thing with great force, so as to rebound. 2. The fright awaken'd Arcite with a start, Against his bosom bounc'd his heaving heart. Dryden. To spring; to make a sudden leap. High nonsense is like beer in a bottle, which has, in reality, no strength and spirit, but frets, and flies, and bounces, and imitates the passions of a much nobler liquor. They bounce from their nest, No longer will tarry. Addison Swift. Out bounc'd the mastiff of the triple head; Away the hare with double swiftness fled. Swift. 3. To make a sudden noise. Just as I was putting out my light, another bounces as hard as he could knock. Swift. 4. To boast; to bully: a sense only used in familiar speech. 5. To be hold, or strong. Forsooth the bouncing Amazon, Your buskin'd mistress, and your warriour. love To Theseus must be wedded. Shakspeare. BOUNCE. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A strong sudden blow. The bounce burst ope the door; the scornful |