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He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke, and bounce;

He gives the bastinado with his tongue. Shaks. Two hazel-nuts I threw into the Hame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd. Gay. 3. A boast; a threat: in low language. Bo'UNCER. n. s. [from bounce.] A boaster;

a bully; an empty threatener: in colloquial speech.

BOUND. n. s. [from bind.]

1. A limit; a boundary; that by which any thing is terminated.

Illimitable ocean! without bound,

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Without dimension; where length, breadth, and To BOUND. v. a. height,

And time, and place, are lost.

Milton.

Those vast Scythian regions were separated by the natural bounds of rivers, lakes, mountains, woods, or marshes. Temple.

Indus and Ganges, our wide empire's bounds, Swell their dy'd currents with their natives wounds. Dryden.

Pope.

Through all th' infernal bounds, Which flaming Phlegethon surrounds, Sad Orpheus sought his consort lost. 2. A limit by which any excursion is restrained.

Hath he set bounds between their love and me? I am their mother; who shall bar me from them? Shakspeare.

Stronger and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his pow'r his shores. Denbam.

Any bounds made with body, even adamantine walls, are far from putting a stop to the mind, in its progress in space. Locke. 3. [from To bound, v, n.] A leap; a jump; a spring.

Do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud.

Shakspeare.

The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground. Addison. Dext'rous he 'scapes the coach with nimble bounds, Whilst ev'ry honest tongue Stop thief resounds. Gay.

4. A rebound; the leap of something flying back by the force of the blow. These inward disgusts are but the first bound of this ball of contention. Decay of Piety,

To BOUND. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To limit; to terminate.

A lofty tow'r, and strong on every side, With treble walls, which Phlegethon surrounds, Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.

2. To restrain; to confine.

Take but degree away,

The bounded waters

Dryden.

Would lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Shaksp. 3. Sometimes with in.

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Shakspeare.

To make to bound. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I would lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jackanapes, never off.

Shakspeare.

If love, ambitious, sought a match of birth, Whose veins bound richer blood than lady Blanch? Shakspeare. BOUND. The pret. and part. pass. of bind. Nay, said Pamela, none shall take that office from myself, being so much bound as I am for my education. Sidney.

This is Antonio,

To whom I am so infinitely bound

You should in all sense be much bound to him; For, as I hear, he was much bound for you. Shaks. The gentleman is learn'd, a most rare speaker, To nature none more bound, Shakspeare. The bishops of Hungary, being wonderfully rich, were bound to keep great numbers of horsemen, which they used to bring into the field.

Knolles.

They summoned the governor to deliver it to them, or else they would not leave one stone upon another. To which the governor made no other reply, than that he was not bound to repair it; but, however, he would, by God's help, keep the ground afterwards. Clarendon, BOUND, adj. [a word of doubtful etymology.] Destined; intending to come to any place.

His be that care, whom most it doth concern, Said he; but whither with such hasty fight Art thou now bound? for well might I discern Great cause, that carries thee so swift and light. Fairy Queen,

To be bound for a port one desires extremely, and sail to it with a fair gale, is very pleasant Temple.

Willing we sought your shores, and hither bound,

The port so long desir'd at length we found. Dryden, BOUNDARY. n. s. [from bound.] Limit;

bound.

He suffers the confluence and clamours of the people to pass all boundaries of laws, and reverence to his authority. King Charles. Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance. Leckt.

Great part of our sins consist in the irregula rities attending the ordinary pursuits of life; so that our reformation must appear, by pursting them within the boundaries of duty. Rogers. Bo'UNDEN. The part. pass. of bind. Not

now much in use.

Hereafter, in a better world than this,

I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.— -I rest much bounden to you: fare you well. Shakspeart.

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I am past a boy;

A sceptre's but a play-thing, and a globe A bigger bounding-stone. Dryden. Bo'UNDLESS. adj. [from bound.] Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable.

Beyond the infinite and boundless reach Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death, Art thou damn'd, Hubert. Shakspeare. Heav'n has of right all victory design'd; Whence boundless power dwells in a will confin'd. Dryden. Man seems as boundless in his desires, as God is in his being; and therefore nothing but God himself can satisfy him. South.

Though we make duration boundless as it is, we cannot extend it beyond all being. God fills eternity, and it is hard to find a reason why any one should doubt that he fills immensity. Locke. Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high,

Or roll the planets through the boundless sky.

Pope. Bo'UNDLESSNESS. n. s. [from boundless.] Exemption from limits.

God has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires, by stinting his capacities. South. Bo'UNTEOUS. adj. [from bounty.] Liberal; kind; generous; munificent; beneficent: a word used chiefly in poetry for bountiful.

Every one

Hath in him clos'd.

According to the gift which bounteous nature Shakspeare. Her soul abhorring avarice, Bounteous, but almost bounteous to a vice. Dryd. BO'UNTEOUSLY, adv. [from bounteous.] Liberally; generously; largely. He bounteously bestow'd unenvy'd good

On me.

Dryden. Bo'UNTEOUSNESS. n. s. [from bounteous.] Munificence; liberality; kindness. He filleth all things living with bounteousness.

Psalms.

Bo'UNTIFUL. adj. [from bounty and full.] 1. Liberal; generous; munificent.

As bountiful as mines of India. Shakspeare. If you will be rieh, you must live frugal; if you will be popular, you must be bountif.il.

Taylor. I am obliged to return my thanks to many, who, without considering the man, have been bountiful to the poet. Dryden, God, the bountiful author of our being. Locke. 2. It has of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving.

Our king spares nothing, to give them the share of that felicity, of which he is so bountiful · to his kingdom. Dryden. BOUNTIFULLY.adv. [from bountiful.} Liberally; in a bountiful manner; largely. And now thy alms is given, And thy poor starveling bountifully fed. Donne. It is affirmed, that it never raineth in Egypt; the river bountifully requiting it in its inunda Broton's Vulgar Errours. BOUNTIFULNESS. n. J. [from bountiful.]

tion.

The quality of being bountiful; gene rosity.

See.

Enriched to all bountifulness. 2 Corinthians. Bo'UNTIHEAD. n. s. [from bounty and } Bo'UNTIHEDE. bead, or hood. BO'UNTIHOOD. HOOD.] Goodness; virtue. Out of use.

This goodly frame of temperance, Formerly grounded, and fast settled On firm foundation of true bountihead. Fairy Q How shall frail pen, with fear disparaged, Conceive such sovereign glory, and great bounti bead? Fairy Queen.

BOUNTY. n. s. [bonté, Fr.] 1. Generosity; liberality; munificence. We do not so far magnify her exceeding bounty, as to affirm, that she bringeth into the world the sons of men adorned with gorgeous attire. Hooker.

If you knew to whom you shew this honour, I know you would be prouder of the work, Than customary bounty can enforce you. Shaks. Such moderation with thy bounty join, That thou may'st nothing give that is not thine. Denham. These godlike men, to wanting virtue kind, Bounty well plac'd preferr'd, and well design'd, To all their titles. Dryden. 2. It seems distinguished from charity, as a present from an alms; being used when persons, not absolutely necessi tous, receive gifts; or when gifts are given by great persons.

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Tell a miser of bounty to a friend, or mercy to the poor, and he will not understand it. South. Her majesty did not see this assembly so pro- per to excite charity and compassion; though I question not but her royal bounty will extend itself to them, Addison

To Bo'URGEON. v. n. [bourgeonner, Fr. To sprout; to shoot into branches; to put forth buds.

Long may the dew of heaven distil upon them, to make them bourgeon and propagate among themselves. Howel.

Dryden.

O that I had the fruitful heads of Hydra, That one might bourgeon where another fell! Still would I give thee work. BOURN. n. s. [borne, Fr.] 1. A bound; a limit. Bourn, bound of land, tilth,

That undiscover'd country, No traveller returns.

False,

vineyard, none. Shakspeare.

from whose bourn Shakspeare.

As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes No bourn 'twixt his and mine. Shakspeare. I know each lane, and every alley green, And every bosky bourn from side to side. Milt. 2. [from burn, Saxon.] A brook; a torrent: whence many towns, scated near brooks, have names ending in bourn. It is not now used in either sense; though the second continues in the Scottish dialect.

Ne swelling Neptune, ne loud thund'ring Jove, Can change my cheer, or make me ever mourn; My little boat can safely pass this perilous bours Spenser. To BOUSE. v. n. [buysen, Dutch.] To drink lavishly; to tope.

As he rode, he somewhat still did eat,
And in his hand did bear a bousing can,
Of which he sipt.
Fairy Queen

Bov'sy. adj. [from bouse.] Drunken.

With a long legend of romantick things, Which in his cup the bousy poet sings. Dryden. The guests upon the day appointed came, Each bousy farmer with his simp'ring dame. King. BOUT. s. [botta, Ital.] A turn; as much of an action as is performed at one time, without interruption; a single part of any action carried on by successive intervals.

The play began: Bas durst not Cosma chace; But did intend next bout with her to meet. Sid. Ladies, that have your feet Unplagued with corns, we 'll have a bout. Shaks. When in your motion you are hot, As make your bouts more violent to that end, He calls for drink.

Shakspeare.

If he chance to 'scape this dismal bout, The former legatees are blotted out. Dryden. A weasel seized a bat; the bat begged for life: says the weasel, I give no quarter to birds: says the bat, I am a mouse; look on my body: so she got off for that bout.

L'Estrange. We'll see when't is enough, Or if it want the nice concluding bout. King. BOUTEFEU. n. s. [French.] An incendiary; one who kindles feuds and discontents. Now disused.

Animated by a base fellow, called John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, who bore much sway among the vulgar, they entered into open rebellion.

Bacon.

Nor could ever any order be obtained impartially to punish the known boutefeus, and open King Charles.

incendiaries.

Besides the herd of boutefeus We set on work within the house. Hudibras. BOʻUTISALE. n. s. [I suppose from bouty

or booty, and sale] A sale at a cheap rate, as booty or plunder is commonly sold.

To speak nothing of the great boutisale of colleges and chantries. Sir J. Hayward. BOUTS RIMEZ [French.] The last words or rhimes of a number of verses given to be filled up.

To BOW. v. a. [bugen, Saxon.]

1. To bend, or inflect. It sounds as now, or how.

A threepence bow'd would hire me, Old as I am, to queen it.

Shakspeare.

Orpheus, with his lute, made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. Shakspeare. Some bow the vines, which bury'd in the plain, Their tops in distant arches rise again. Dryden. The mind has not been made obedient to discipline, when at first it was most tender and most easy to be bored. Locke. 2. To bend the body in token of respect or submission.

They came to meet him, and bored themselves to the ground before him. 2 Kings.

Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Isaiab.

3. To bend, or incline, in condescension. Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer. Ecclus. 4. To depress; to crush.

Are you so gospeil'd,

To pray for this good man, and for his issue, Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave, And beggar'd yours for ever? Shakspeare.

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Bow. n. s. [from the verb. nounced, like the verb, as now, bow.] An act of reverence or submission, by bending the body.

Swift.

Some clergy too she would allow, Nor quarrel'd at their awkward bow. Bow. n.s. [pronounced as no, lo, without any regard to the w.]

1. An instrument of war, made by holding wood or metal bent with a string, which, by its spring, shoots arrows with great force.

Take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver, and thy boru, and go out to the field, and take me some venison. Genesis. The white faith of hist'ry cannot show, That e'er the musket yet could beat the barv. Alleyne's Henry VII. 2. A rainbow; a coloured arch in the clouds.

I do set my bor in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Genesis. 3. The instrument with which string-instruments are struck.

Their instruments were various in their kind; Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind: The sawtry, pipe, and hautboy's noisy band, And the soft lute trembling beneath the touching hand. Dryden's Fables. 4. The doubling of a string in a slipknot. This is perhaps corruptly used for bought.

Make a knot, and let the second knot be with a borv. Wiseman. 5. A yoke.

As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb, and the faulcon his bells, so man hath his desire. Shakspeare.

6. Bow of a saddle. The bors of a saddle are two pieces of wood laid archwise, to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight. Farrier's Dict. 7. Bow of a ship. That part of her which begins at the loof, and compassing ends of the stern, and ends at the sternmost parts of the forecastle. If a ship hath a broad bow, they call it a bold boz ; a narrow thin bow, they say she hath a lean bow. The piece of ordnance that lies in this place, is called the bow

if

piece; and the anchors that hang here, are called her great and little bowers. 8. Boy is also a mathematical instrument, made of wood, formerly used by seamen in taking the sun's altitude. 9. Bow is likewise a beam of wood or brass, with three long screws, that direct a lath of wood or steel to any arch; used commonly to draw draughts of ships, projections of the sphere, or wherever it is requisite to draw long arches. Harris. Bow-BEARER. n. s. [from bow and bear.] An under officer of the forest, Cowell. Bow-BENT. adj. [from bow and bent.] Crooked.

A sibyl old, bow-bent with crooked age, That far events full wisely could presage. Milton. Bow-HAND. n. s. [from bow and band.] The hand that draws the bow.

Surely he shoots wide on the borv-hand, and very far from the mark. Spenser's Ireland. BOW-LEGGED. adj. [from bow and leg.] Having crooked legs. Bow-SHOT. n. s. [from bow and shot.] The space which an arrow may pass in its flight from the bow.

Though he were not then a bor-shot off, and made haste; yet, by that time he was come, the thing was no longer to be seen.

BO/WELS. n. s. [boyaux, Fr.]

Boyle.

1. Intestines; the vessels and organs within the body.

He smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels.

2. The inner parts of any thing.

2 Samuel.

Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all From twelve to seventy; and pouring war Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome, Like a bold flood appear.

Shakspeare. His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit, A Talbot! Talbot! cried out amain, And rush'd into the bowels of the battle. Shaksp. As he saw drops of water distilling from the rock, by following the veins, he has made himself two or three fountains in the bowels of the mountain.

3. The seat of pity, or kindness. His bowels did yern upon him.

4. Tenderness; compassion.

Addison.

Genesis.

He had no other consideration of money, than for the support of his lustre ; and whilst he could do that, he cared not for money; having no bowels in the point of running in debt, or borrowing all he could.

Clarendon.

5. This word seldom has a singular, except in writers of anatomy. Bo'wER. n

. n. s. [from bough or branch, or from the verb bow or bend.]

1. An arbour; a sheltered place covered with green trees, twined and bent.

But Ŏ,sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Museus from his bower! Milton. To gods appealing, when I reach their bow'rs, With loud complaints, they answer me in show'rs.

Waller.

Refresh'd, they wait them to the bow'r of state, Where, circled with his peers, Atrides sat. Pope. 2. It seems to signify, in Spenser, a blow; a stroke: bourrer, Fr. to fall upon.

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers

Were wont to rive steel plates, and helmets hew, Were clean consum'd, and all his vital powers t Decay'd. Fairy Queen BO'WER. n. s. [from the bow of a ship.] Anchors so called. See Bow. To Bo'WER. v. a. [from the noun.] To embower; to enclose.

Thou didst bower the spirit

In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh. Shaksp Bo'WERY. adj. [from bower.] Full of bowers.

Landskips how gay the bow'ry grotto yields, Which thought creates, and lavish fancy builds! Tickel Snatch'd through the verdant maze, the hur ried eye

Distracted wanders: now the bow'ry walk
Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day
Falls on the lengthen'd gloom, protracted sweeps.
Thomson.

To Bow GE. See To BOUGE.
BOWL. n.s. [buelin, Welsh; which sig-
nifies, according to Junius, any thing
made of horn, as drinking cups anciently
were. It is pronounced bole]

1. A vessel to hold liquids, rather wide than deep; distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.

Give me a borol of wine;

I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. Shakspeare. If a piece of iron be fastened on the side of a bowl of water, a loadstone, in a boat of cork, will make unto it. Brazon.

The sacred priests, with ready knives, bereave The beasts of life, and in full bowls receive The streaming blood.

Dryden

Fenton.

While the bright Sein, t' exalt the soul,
With sparkling plenty crowns the bowl,
And wit and social mirth inspires.
2. The hollow part of any thing.

If you are allowed a large silver spoon for the kitchen, let half the botol of it be worn out with continual scraping. Swift.

3. A basin, or fountain.

But the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay either in the bowl or in the cistern. Bacon.

BOWL. n. s. [boule, French. It is pronounced as cow, howl.] A round mass, which may be rolled along the ground. Like to a borul upon a subtile ground, I've tumbled past the throw. Shakspeare.

How finely dost thou times and seasons spin! And make a twist checker'd with night and day! Which, as it lengthens, winds, and winds us in, As boruls go on, but turning all the way. Herbert.

Like him who would lodge a bowl upon z precipice, either my praise falls back, or stays not on the top, but rowls over. Dryden.

Men may make a game at bowls in the sum mer, and a game at whisk in the winter. Dennis. Though that piece of wood, which is now a bowl, may be made square, yet, if roundness be taken away, it is no longer a bowl. Watts. To Bowl. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To roll as a bowl.

2. To pelt with any thing rolled.

Alas! I had rather be set quick i' th' earth, And bowl'd to death with turnips.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Bo'wLDER-STONES. n. 5. Lumps or frag ments of stones or marble, broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being

tumbled to and again by the water; whence their name. Woodward. Bo'wLER. n. s. [from bowl.] He that plays at bowls.

Bo'wLINE.n. s. [sea term.] A rope Bo'wLING. fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail; it is fastened in three or four parts of the sail, called the bouling bridle. The use of the bowling is to make the sails stand sharp or close to a wind. Harris. Bo'wLING-GREEN. n. s. [from bowl and green.] A level piece of ground, kept smooth for bowlers.

A bowl equally poised, and thrown upon a plain bowling-green, will run necessarily in a direct line. Bentley. Bo'wMAN. n. s. [from bow and man.] An archer; he that shoots with a bow. The whole city shall flee, for the noise of the horsemen and bormen. Jeremiah. Bo' SPRIT. n. s. [from the bow of a ship.] This word is generally spelt boltsprit; which see.

To Bo'wSSEN. v. a. [probably of the same original with bouse, but found in no other passage.] To drench; to soak.

The water fell into a close walled plot; upon this wall was the frantick person set, and from thence tumbled headlong into the pond; where a strong fellow tossed him up and down, until the patient, by foregoing his strength, had somewhat forgot his fury; but if there appeared small amendment, he was borssened again and again, while there remained in him any hope of life, for recovery. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Bo'wSTRING..s. [from bow and string.] The string by which the bow is kept

bent.

He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's borstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him." Shakspeare.

Sound will be conveyed to the ear, by striking upon a bowstring, if the horn of the bow be held to the ear.

Bacon.

Bo'wYER. n. s. [from bow.] 1. An archer; one that uses the bow. Call for vengeance from the bowyer king. Dryd. 2. One whose trade is to make bows. BOX. n. s. [box, Saxon; buxus, Lat.] A tree.

The leaves are pennated, and evergreen: it hath male flowers, that are produced at remote distances from the fruit, on the same tree; the fruit is shaped like a porridge-pot inverted, and is divided into three cells, containing two seeds in each, which, when ripe, are cast forth by the elasticity of the vessels. The wood is very useful for engravers, and mathematical instrument makers; being so hard, close, and ponderous, as to sink in water. Miller.

There are two sorts; the dwarf box, and a taller sort. The dwarf box is good for borders, and is easily kept in order, with one clipping in the year. It will increase of slips set in March, or about Bartholomew tide; and will prosper on cold barren hills, where nothing else will grow. Mortimer.

Box. n. s. [box, Sax, buste, Germ.] 1. A case made of wood, or other matter, to hold any thing. It is distinguished from chest, as the less from the greater. It is supposed to have its name from the box wood.

A magnet, though but in an ivory box, will, through the box, send forth his embracing virtue to a beloved needle. Sidney

About his shelves

A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shakspeare. The lion's head is to open a most wide voracious mouth, which shall take in letters and papers. There will be under it a box, of which the key will be kept in my custody, to receive such papers as are dropped into it. Steeler This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. Pope. 2. The case of the mariners compass. 3. The chest into which money given is put.

So many more, so every one was us'd, That to give largely to the box refus'd. Spenser 4. The seats in the playhouse, where the ladies are placed.

"T is left to you; the boxes and the pit Are sovereign judges of this sort of wit. Dryden She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring; A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched thing. Pepa To Box. v. a. [from the noun.] To enclose in a box.

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Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clatt'ring o'er the roof by fits Swift. BOX. n. s. [bock, a cheek, Welsh.] A blow on the head given with the hand. For the box o' th' ear that the prince gave you, gave it like a rude prince. Shakspeare. If one should take my hand perforce, and give another a box on the ear with it, the law punisheth the other. Bramball. There may happen concussions of the brain from a box on the ear. Wiseman's Surgery. Olphis, the fisherman, received a box on the Box. v. n. [from the noun.] To fight ear from Thestylis. Spectator.

To

with the fist.

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