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Gael. _buarach_.
BOURBEE, _s._ The spotted Whistle fish, S.
_Sibbald._
_To_ BOURD, _v. n._ To jest, to mock, S.
_Ramsay._
Fr. _bourd-er_, id. But this seems to be merely an abbrev. of _behourd-ir_, _bohord-er_, to just together with lances. _Bohord_, _behord_, is originally a Gothic word, as being used by old Northern writers.
BOURD, BOURE, _s._ A jest, a scoff, S.
_Kelly._
_Houlate._
BOURIE, _s._ A hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that hide themselves there; E. a _Burrow_.
_Monroe._
From the same origin with ~Bourach~.
BOURTREE, BORETREE, BOUNTREE, _s._ Common elder, a tree; Sambucus nigra, Linn.; A. Bor. _Burtree_.
_Lightfoot._
It seems to have received its name from its being hollow within, and thence easily _bored_ by thrusting out the pulp.
BOUSHTY, _s._ Expl. "bed." Aberd.
_Shirrefs._
The same with _Buisty_, q. v.
BOUSTOUR, BOWSTOWRE, _s._ A military engine, anciently used for battering walls.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. _byssa_, _bossa_, signifies a mortar, an engine for throwing bombs; Bombarda, Ihre; formerly _byssor_; from _byssa_, theca, a box, or case; because in these tubes, as in cases, bullets are lodged.
BOUSUM, BOWSOM, _adj._
1. Pliant, tractable.
_Palice Honour._
A. S. _bocsum_, _buhsum_, obediens, tractabilis, from _bug-an_, Belg. _buyg-en_, flectere.
2. "Blythe, merry," Rudd.
_To_ BOUT, BOWT, _v. n._ To spring, to leap, S. "_bouted up_," Rudd. vo.
_up-bolt.i.t_.
_Lyndsay._
Teut. _botten_, _op-bott-en_, to rebound, resilire.
BOUT, _s._ A sudden jerk in entering or leaving an apartment; a hasty entrance or departure; the act of coming upon one by surprise; S.
BOUTGATE, _s._
1. A circuitous road, a way which is not direct, S. from _about_, and _gait_ way.
_Ross._
2. A circ.u.mvention, a deceitful course, S.
_R. Bruce._
3. An ambiguity, or an equivocation, in discourse.
_Bp. Forbes._
BOW, _s._ A boll; a dry measure, S.
_Monroe._
BOW, BOLL, LINTBOW, _s._ The globule which contains the seed of flax.
_Bow_ is the p.r.o.n. S.
_Polwart._
Germ. _boll_, id. oculus et gemma plantae, caliculus ex quo flos erumpit; Wachter.
