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to Blank, to make pale, to discourage, oppress. Blue, was a colour appropriated to the dresses H. 3, 2.

Blanket, woollen cover for a bed, sheet. Cy.
3,1; used in theatre instead of a curtain, hence
metaph. for cloudcover, skycover. M. 1, 5.
Blast, storm, tempest. He. 3, 1. ‘KL. 4, 1.
mildew. KL. 1, 4.

to Blast, to damage, blight (which no doubt
is relationed) the corn; generally to ruin, damage,
hurt. H. 1, 1; as v. n. to suffer a blast. TG.
1, 1. AC. 3, 1.
Blaze, flame. H. 1, 4. Blast and blaze are
relationed with blow, blush, lat. flare, gr. aō,
azō, phlaō. Hence also

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to Blaze, to unfold, open, publicate, spread
far and wide. RJ. 3, 3. contracted from
to Blazon, to set forth a coat of arms in its
proper colours, (Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 401.)
where the chief notion is that of making known,
publishing, divulging; hence to shew, expose
to public sight. TAn. 4, 4. Cy. 4, 2; to deck.
RJ. 2, 6.

Blazon, divulging, revealing. H. 1, 5. cf. Ben
Jonson VIII, 409. Giff. II, 401.
Bleak, pale; rough. AL. 2, 6. Gr. leukos,
germ. bleich.

of particular persons in low life, as servants. TS. 4, 1. aHƒ. 1, 3. beadles. S. beadle. Hence bluebottle, sometimes a term of reproach for a servant. bild. 5, 4. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 333. Blunt, dull on the edge, or point; stupid, insensible. MA. 3, 4. TS. 3, 2. bHf. 4, 1. cHf. 5, 1. JC. 1, 2. From the Anglos. blinnan, to stop in the progress towards a point, or edge. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 175.

to Blur, to stain, spot, defile. bHf. 4, 1. Cy. 4, 2. H. 3, 4.

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to Board, to assail a ship, to enter it by force.
MA. 2, 1. TS. 1, 2; to accost, front, pick up.
TN. 1, 3. H. 2, 2. MW. 2, 1. AW. 5, 3; to
keep an ordinary, or cookshop. He. 2, 1.
Bob, to cheat, or obtain by cheating, to gull.
0.5, 1; to scorn, flout, fleer, MD. 2, 1. Rc.
5, 3. TC. 2, 1. 3, 1. 0. 5, 1. Other form of
fob, fop, pop, kin to the gr. phebō, to excite,
to persecute, and thēbō, the pō thōpō, thō-
peuō, to deceive, scorn.

Bob, taunt, scoff, AL. 2, 7.
Bobtail, cut tail, short tail. KL. 3, 6.
to Bode, to foredeem, presage. TS. 5, 2. T. 3,
1. MA. 3, 2. S. to bid.

to Blear, to weep, so that the eyes are inflamed, or swell, and of consequence are dimmed and clouded. Co. 2, 1. MV. 3, 2. hence to dim, offuscate, and figuratively to deceive. Kito Bodge, to boggle, make bungling or bad to the lat. flare and flere; lowsax. plüren, plyren, to wink and twinkle with the eyes, for seeing better; plyroget, short sighted; bleeroge, plurroge, plieroge, flirroge, running eye. to Blench, to start, or fly off, to flinch. MM. 4, 5. WT. 1, 2. TC. 1, 1. 2, 2. H. 2, 2. It seems an other form of flinch, fling, flee. Blench, start, aberration from rectitude. S. 110. to Blend, to mix, mingle. Co. 3, 1. TC. 4, 5. Blent, for blended. MV. 3. 2. TN. 1, 5. Blessing of the bridebed by the priest, for to make the issue of the marriage happy, and to avert deformity, was a ceremony observed at all marriages. MD. 5, 2. S. Douce's Sh. ill. I, 199. II, 275.

Blindworm, also slowworm, a little snake with very small eyes, anguis fragilis L., falsely supposed to be venomous. MD. 2, 3. M. 4, 1. germ. Blindschleiche.

Bliss, highest degree of happiness. RJ. 1, 1.
MD. 3, 2. bHf. 3, 3. 4C. 1, 3. Anglos. blissian,
laetari.

Blister, blain, pimple, wheal, pock. LL. 5, 2.
II. 3, 4. Kin to blow.

Blithe, merry. TAn. 4, 4. He. 2, 3. MA. 2, 3.
where it is joined to bonny.
Bloat, turgid, swoln. II. 3, 4.

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Block, stem of a tree. Rc. 3, 7. JC. 1, 1. MA.
2, 1. 3, 1; the wooden mould, on which the
crown of a hat is formed. MA, 1, 1. KL. 4, 6.
Kin to log, and the germ. liegen, gelegt.
Blood, disposition. TA. 4, 2. Cy. 1, 1; natural
propensity, bent, appetite, desire, lust, con-
cupiscence. MA. 2, 1. where wisdom and blood
are opp. 4, 1; murder. KJ. 4, 2. Rc. 5, 3.
Bloodboltered, stained, sprinkled, daubed
with blood. M. 4, 1. S. to bolt.
Blown, swelled, tumid, inflated. KL. 4, 4.
a Hd. 4, 2.

Blowze, redfaced, fat, bloated wench. TAn.
4.2.

to Blubber, to swell one's cheek with weeping. RJ. 3, 3. cf. to blear

work, to come ill of. cHf. 1, 4. It is paragoned to budge, fr. bouger, kin to the gr. phygō, pheugō, ital. fuggire, germ. weichen, to ily. Add, that the opposed charge, and give no foot of ground in the cited passage favour very much that simple meaning. 'Tis evident, however, that the sense at least, although not the signification, is the same, when to bodge is parallel'd to botch, patch, bungle, it. pezzo, fr. piece, germ. bisschen, Fetzen; hamb. Fudden, rags, brem. fuddeln, to make bad work, pfuschen. Perhaps both illustrations may be combined, as the genius of a mixed language would not gainsay.

Bodkin, a little stabber or dagger. H. 3, 1. S.
Murray's history of the Europ. lang. I, 395.
Bog, mire, pool, lake, plash. MD. 3, 1. He.3, 7.
KL.3.4. Kin to beach, gr. bachtke, bygē, pēgë,
source, bourn, aiges fr. vogues, germ. Wogen,
lat. aqua, water.

to Boggle, to stir, be in motion, and of course.
to be allrighted, dismayed, startled. AW. 5, S
Kin to wag, waggle, waddle, germ. wackeln.
Boggler, one who boggles; a vicious woman.
who starts from the right path. C. 3, 11. where
Johnson falsely referring it to Thyreus explains
it, doubter, timorous man, and smuggles a
sense wholly alien to the context.
Bohemian Tartar, perhaps a gipsy. MIV.
4, 5 A mere wild appellation, designed to
ridicule the appearance of Simple.

Boil, butch, bump, tumour, bauch. Co. 1, 4.
TC. 2, 1. Other form of beal, bile, byle, germ.
Beule. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 157.

to Bold, to embolden, render bold, to bolden.
(AL. 2, 7. Hh. 1, 2.) KL. 5, 1. Kin to the
Anglos. wald, dominion, lat. validus, ital.
baldo, baldanza, old germ. bald, pald, palth,
audacious, balden, to venture, walten, Gewalt.
to Bolster, to countenance, support, uphold.
properly by a pillow, or cushion, to back,
assist. But 0.3, 8. it is used in an obscene
sense for to tup in the same place. In an analo-

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Bolt, S. birdbold.

spectre that haunts, S. Bug, which shows, that frightening in jest or sport may have been a modification of that game. So the Italians in this case cry bau, bau, or baco, baco. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 146. the Germans mum

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to Bolt, to sift. WT. 4,3. TC. 1, 1. metaphor-Bore, bored hole, issue. Cy. 3, 2; the hollow ically applied to language. Co. 3, 1; to fasten of a cannon, metaphorically for estimation, with a bolt, to fetter. AC. 5, 2. Another form capacity. H. 4, 6. of it is to bolter. M. 4, 1.

Bolting hutch, the wooden receptacle or chest, into which the meal is bolted, aHd. 2, 4. Hutch is the Anglos. hvaecce, kin to catch, lat. capio, capesso, gr. chaō.

to Bore, to wound; metaphorically to torment. Hh. 1, 1. Both words from the lat. per, through, gr. peran, go through, lat. forare to pierce.

Bosky, woody. B. acres fields separated by hedgerows. T. 4, 1. Kin to bush, wh. s.

Bombard, a sort of cannon; a very large drinking vessel, made probably of leather, to distri-Bosom, wish, desire. MM. 4, 3. Love letters bute liquor to great multitudes. T. 2, 2. aHd. 2, 4. Hh. 5, 3. From the greek bombeo, bombaino, to buzz, bluster,

Bombast, a kind of loose texture, not unlike
what is now called wadding, used to stuff out
quilting the dresses, or clothes. Hence figura-
tively creature of bombast. aHd. 2, 4. great
fat man; tumour of words unsupported by solid
sentiment, big words without meaning. LL. 5,
2. 0.1, 1.

Bona roba, Italian phrase, signifying properly
good ware, in the ironical sense of loose ware,
then a courtesan, 'femmina bella anzicheno,
ma disonesta, o di partito,' as Alberti de Villa
nuova explains it. bHd. 3, 2.
Bond. S. band.

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were addressed to the bosom of a lady. H. 2, 2. TG. 3, 1. because women anciently, as in our times, had a pocket in the forepart of their stays, in which they carried love letters, and love tokens, but even their money and materials for needlework. To be in one's bosom. JC. 5, 1. or of one's bosom. KL. 4, 5. to be bosomed with (KL. 5, 1.) intimate, to know the designs of one. Kin to bottom, fathom, gr. pythmen, bythos, byssos, depth, bathys, byttis, buttis, pytinē, the germ. Boden, ital. busto, fr. buste, pers. pistan, bottle.

Boss, to emboss, stud. TS. 2, 1. Kin to the old germ. Bosse, ital. bozzo, bozza, fr. bosse, gr. physa, physsa, blown, bladder.

Bot, worm in the stomach of a horse. TS. 3. 2. a Hd. 2, 1.

to Botch up, to piece, mend, bungle. H. 4, 5.
TA. 4, 3. He. 2, 2.; to raise, stir, instigate.
TN. 4, 1. cf. to bodge.

Botcher, mender of old clothes. TN. 1, 5.
AW. 4, 3. Co. 2, 1.

Bondage, captivity. aHf. 5, 3. Rb. 1, 3. Cy. 3, 3. 5, 4; servility. JC. 1, 3. AW. 3, 5. Bone. By these ten bones i. e. fingers. bHf. 1,3. Boneach, venereal disease. TC. 2, 3. 5, 1. Book, every kiud of composition, as indenture, articles of agreement. aHd. 3, 1. Hence our book is drawn ib. or indenture is written down, Botchy, impostumed. TC. 2, 1. is ready; articles of judicial examination. MM. Bottle (of hay) truss, bundle. MD. 4. 1. 2, 1. where supposed is misspoken for deposed, to Bottom, to sound (wh. s.) Cy. 3, 4. Cf. boexamined as witness. By the book, artfully, som and the gr. pynthanesthai. skillfully. RJ. 1, 5.

customers,

Books. To be in one's books, to be in favour.
MA. 1, 1. To put in one's books, to confer,
bestow one's favour. MA. 1, 1. TS. 2, 1. The
origin of this phrase is, that books are memo-
randums, in whom were entered the names of
servants and retainers, friends,
debtors, perhaps also heirs.
Bookish, versed in books, well read. WT. 3, 3.
opp. unbookish, raw, rough. O. 4, 1.
Boon, meed, fee. TG. 5, 4; offer. cHf. 3, 2:
reward, favour. Rc. 1, 2. TɅn. 2, 4. Rb. 4.
From the latin bonus, whence Chaucer spells
bone.

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Boot, profit, gain, advantage, reward, recompense. KL. 4, 5; to boot, something over and above. M. 4, 8. Rc. 4, 4. 5, 3. Cy. 1, 6. TC. 1, 2; prey. He. 1, 2. bHf. 4, 1. Boots an instrument of torturing, used in Scotland, and in Spain. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 32. Hence to give the boots to one, to scorn, to make a laughing stock of one, to play with, in germ. einen schrauben. TG. 1, 1.- Kin to the greek bōthein, boethein, to aid, assist, pūs, foot, gr. batein, to tread.

to Boot, to stead, (wh. s.) to serve. WT. 3, 2. in active sense. AC. 2, 5.

Bopeep, a gaine of nurses with children, consisting in drawing near and retiring crying cuckoo, viz see, see! look, look! KL. 1, 4. Lo is from the greek būs, ox, frightening

Bought and sold, proverbial expression for
completely disposed of. CE. 3, 1. aHƒ. 4, 4.
Rc. 5. 3.

Boulted, sifted, refiued. He. 2, 2.
Bounce, crack, noise. KJ. 2, 2.
to Bounce, to clack, to crack; to strut. MD. 5.
2. As it is in the first sense onomatopoetic,
so in the second it answers to the gr. saunos,
saulos, and the germ. waidlich.

to Bound, to jump, gambol (wh. s.) RJ. 1, 4;
to rear, rise up, as a horse. aHd. 2, 8; to
tumble, manage. He. 5, 2.

Bound, border, frontier, CE. 2, 1; bordering acre and meadow. AL. 2, 4. answering to the low latin bonna, bunda.

Bourn, brook, rivulet. TC. 2, 3. KL. 3, 6; where brook is glossem, limit, boundary. T. 2, 1. AC. 1, 1. WT. 1, 2. It is the germ. word Born, for Brunn, from the gr. rheō, rhainō, to run; and the fr. borne.

Bout, onset, turn, hit, in fighting, or dancing.
H. 4, 7. TN. 3, 4. aHf. 1, 5. Cy. 5, 3. RJ. 1,
5. The word is the ital. botta. S. Douce's Ill,
of Sh. I, 233.

Bow, yoke for oxen. AL. 3, 5.
to Bower, to close up. RJ. 3. 2. germ. ein-
bauern, from Bauer, bird's cage.
Bowhand. S. aim.

Bowstrings. Hold or cut bowstrings, MD. 1.
2. proverb meaning on all risk, as in germ.
es mag biegen oder brechen.

LL. 4, 1. Compare brack, brake, braid, the
gr. rhaō, rhessō.

Breast, musical voice, fine voice. TN. 2, 3.
S. Gifford's Ben Jonson VII, 412.
The germ.
Brust, anciently Burst, from the gr. prosthē,
before, in front.

Brabble, quarrel, petty broil. TɅn. 2, 1. Brace, a couple. cHf. 2, 5. TC. 4, 5. LL. 5, 2. Brach, bitch, wh. see. Ind. TS. 1. aHd. 3, 1. KL. 1, 4. 3, 6. 'Tis the germ. word Brack, Bracke, lowlat. bracco, fr. brac, brachet, braque, ital. bracco, holl. braak, all together formed out of the natural sound of a gnarring to Breast, to front (wh. s.) He. 3. ch. dog, greek brazō, rhazō, rhoizō, rhozō, rho-Breast-plate, crosset, plastron. bHf. 3, 2. theō, rhathiazō, rhyzō. to Breathe, to let recover one's breath. bad. 1, 1. to promote free respiration, to take exercice. AW. 2, 3.

Braggart, bully, boaster, swaggerer. MA. 5,
1. MV. 3, 2. AW. 4, 3. Co. 5. 5. TA. 4, 3.
KL. 2, 2.

Braid, deceitful, crafty. AW. 4, 2. Horne Tooke
II, 47. deriving it from to bray, to bruise,
pound, finds here an allusion to Prov. 27, 20.
and refers it to old bad qualities of Bertram,
of whom he could not get rid, bruised even in
a mortar. It seems however too far fetched and
the word is rather kin to the Sax. bred, the
gr. phrades, the lat. fraus.
Brain, from the Anglos. braegen, gr. bregma,
scull. MW. 3, 5. AL. 2, 7.

to Brain, to beat or dash out the brain. T. 3,
2, of course to defeat, destroy. MM. 5, 1.
Brain-pan, scull, vessel that contains the brains.
bHf. 4, 10.

Brainsick, distempered in the brain, mad, impetuous. aHf. 4, 1.‍bHƒ. 5. 1. TC. 2, 2. Brainish, mad. H. 4, 1.

Brake, thicket, furzebush, thornbush. MM. 2,
1. MD. 2, 2. 3. 1. bHƒ. 3, 1. Hh. 1. 2. It ap-
partains to the gr. rhassō; rhessō; rhekō, to
tear, break, whence rhakos, aeol. brakos, rha-
kalon, brakalon, relationed to break, breach,
breech, broach. On the other senses of this
word s. Nares.

to Brandish, to swing, shake, wave, flourish,
wield. Rb. 4, 1. bHd. 1, 2. M. 1. 2.
Brat, progeny, offspring; child, by way of
contempt. WT. 2, 8. bHf. 1, 3. 5, 5. Rc. 1, 3.
5, 5. Co. 4, 6. Cy. 2. 3. Kin to breed, brood,
from the gr. blyō, bryō.

to Brave, to make a person fine, showy, splen-
did. TS. 4, 8. From the lat. probus.
Bravery, finery, showy dress. TS. 4, 3.
Brawl, dispute, squabble, quarrelling. CE. 5,
1. where it varies with railings, upbraidings.
MD. 2, 2. bHd. 2, 4. aHf. 2, 4. TAn. 4, 3; a
kind of dance, performed by several persons
uniting hands in a circle and giving each other
continual shakes, the steps changing with the
tune. It usually consisted of three pas and a
pied-joint, to the time of four strokes of a
bow; which being repeated was termed a double
brawl. LL. 3, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 217.-
In the first meaning it is kind to brabble, brag,
brach, bray, gr. brazō; in the second it is
from the french branle, anciently bransle, spelt
also bransle by Spenser.

to Brawl, to sound with noise, to boil. AL.
2, 1.

Brawn, boar; hard musculous flesh, lump or
mass of flesh. aHd. 2, 4; musculous arm, Cy.
4, 2. TC. 1,3. Kin to barrow, gr. bortha.
to Bray, to beat small, to bruise. Cf. braid;
to make noise, to cry, din, roar. H. 1, 4. TA.
2, 2. KJ. 3, 1. Compare the fr. broyer, braire,
brailler, the engl. brangle, brawl, wh. s.
to Break, to utter. MA. 2, 1. TS. 4, 5. TC. 1,
3; to open, disclose, declare. MA. 1, 1. TG.
8, 1. M. 1, 7. JC. 2, 1. aHf. 1, 3. To break
up, to unseal a letter. MV. 2, 4; to carve.

Breathing while, time sufficient fór drawing breath, any very short period of time. Rc. 1, 3. VA. 190.

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Breech, to whip, jerk, flog, punish as a schoolboy. TS. 3, 1. (where breeching for breechable, liable, to be whipped) MW. 4, 1. Daggers breech'd with gore M. 2, 3. having their hilt, or breech covered, tainted with blood. So Steevens. Douce, however Ill. of Sh. 1,377. covered as with breeches.

Breed-bate, one that breeds bate, hatches,

makes strife, or contention. MW. 1, 4. Breeder, female, dam. cHf. 2, 1; she that breeds (compare brat), mother, bringing forth. H. 3, 1.

Breeding, education. MV. 2, 7. WT. 1, 2. 4,

3. He. 3, 1. AC. 1, 2.

Briar, shrub of bramble. T. 4, 1. AL. 1. 3.
AW. 4, 4. TAn. 2, 4. aHf. 2, 4. Co. 3, 3. Com-
pare frit, bristle, the gr. phrittein, vigere,
Bribe-buck, in the old copies brib'd buck, a
krissein, krissos.
buck beg'd by the keepers. From the fr. briber,
to beg. MW.5, 5. Perhaps it is got in a thiev-
ish,
unlawful manner,
the word liking some-
what to the fr. fripier, fripon, from the lat.
rapere, gr. harpō, harpazo, to rob.
Bridal, state of bride. O. 3, 4.
Bridge, upper part of the nose. TA. 4, 3.
Brief, a short writing, as a letter or inventory.
ald. 4, 8; speech. AW. 5, 3. 2, 3. in which
latter passage others understand the favour of
the king granted by patent letters. The first
interpretation, however, as short speech de-
livered just now, seems to be preferable.
Brief, rife, common. KJ. 4, 3.
Brimful, full till to the brim, brink, rand,
margin, topful. (M. 1, 5.) T. 5, 1. JC. 4, 3. 0.
2, 3. Compare the gr. prymnon, the engl. rim,
raom, and Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 261.
Brinded, vary coloured, checkered. M. 4, 1.
Properly red-brown, branded, as the cows are
call'd in Northengland. Compare the german
bernen, brinnen, brehen, brennen, the engl.
bright, brunt.

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Bring, to attend, accompany. MM. 1, 1. 0. 3, 1. LL. end.

Brisk, blank, neat, clear, polished, trimly. dressed. aHd. 1, 3; vigorous, firy. bHd. 5, 3. Compare the gr. rhoizō, brazō, brawl, bray, bran, brach, brag, breathe, the lowsax. bruusken, brüsken, rusen, rauschen, fr. bruit, ital. brio.

Bristle, halm of straw. TN. 1, 5; the stiff, starting hair of a swine. From the gr. rhittō, rhissō, phrissō; compare brustle, frown; fret, grisly, curl, hair, the germ. Borste, Bürste,

brush.

Brittle, fragile, frail. Rb. 4, end. aHd. 5, 4.
Rc. 4, 2.

Brize, brise, breese, bree,
horsefly. AC. 3. 8. TC. 1, 3.

oestrum, gadfly, Like the germ.

Bremse, formed from the sound; compare the to Bruise, fr. briser, to break small, to squash, gr. bremō; the lat. fremo. crush, (to which it is joined Co. 2, 3.) push. Rc. 1, 1.

Bruise, contusion, boil. MA. 5, 1.

to Broach, to spit, transfix. He. 5. chor. TAn. 4, 2. MD. 5, 1. aHf. 2, 8; to tap. aHf. 3, 4. cHf. 2, 3. TA. 2, 2; to profer, publish, pro- to Bruit, to report, noise about, to rumour, pagate, give out. cHf. 2, 2. AC. 1, 2. T'An. announce by alarum. bHd. 1,1. H.1, 2. M. 5, 2, 1. TS. 1, 2. Compare break, middlelat. 7. aHf. 2, 3. broca, tun; fr. broche.

Broad, gross. TA. 3,4; quite. TAn. 2, 2. Com-
pare the germ. breit, the gr. platys.
Broad side, full charge, volley. bHd. 2, 4.
Brock, badger, frequently as term of contempt.
TN. 2, 5.

Brogues, a kind of coarse wooden shoes Cy. 4,
2. Burt letters from a gentleman in the north

of Scotland to his friend in London etc. (5 ed. with an introd. and notes by R. Jamieson. Lond. 1822. II. 8.) 1, 73. calls them 'a sort of pumps without heels, which keep little more from the wet and dirt, than none, but serve to defend the feet from the gravel and stones.' Kin to breeches, germ. brechen, gr. brachys. to Broke, to deal, or transact a business, ticularly of an amorous nature. AW.3, 5. From the Sax. brucan, to be busy. Gr. prassein, pegraga. Broker,

Bruit, report, rumour. cHf. 4, 7. TA. 5, 3. TC. 5, 10. Fr. bruit. S. to bray, brisk. Brunt, anciently brount, heat, hot, ardent assault, attack. Co. 2, 2. The germ. Brunst, from burn, anciently to bren, germ. brennen, gr. pyr, fire. S. brinded. Horne Tooke Div. of Purl. II, 167. 306.

Brush, brunt, push, fight, strife, fray, shock, assault. bHf.5, 2. TA. 4, 3. TC. 5, 3. Compare bristle.

Bubukle, carbuncle, bladder, blister, pustule. He. 3, 6. where it is associated to whelks and knobs. It seems the deminutive of bubo, botch pestilential sore, gr. bubōn, bombōn, from the swoln form.

par-Buck, liquor or lye for washing linen; quantity of linen, washed at once. bHf. 4, 2. In a pun with buck (from the gr. aix, goat) MW. 3, 3. It is the germ. word Bäuche, from Buche, beech, gr. phe gos, lat. fagus, whence bäuchen, Bucket, spelt also boket, bouket, vessel to lowsax. büken, ital. bucato.

matchmaker, pander, gobetween, pimp, procuress. TG. 1, 2. TC. 3, 2. cHf. 4, 1. Brooch, ornamental buckle, pin, loop. AW. 1, 1. Rb. 5,5. TC. 2, 1. Kin to broach, broche, pin, tongue, by which it is fastened,

to Brooch, to ornament or adorn with a brooch.
AC. 4, 13.

to Brook, to bear with, to endure, abide.
(wh. s.) CE. 4, 1. LL. 4, 2. Rb. 3, 2. aHd. 4,
1. 5, 4. aHf. 1, 3. 4, 1. bHƒf. 1, 1. 4, 9. 5, 1.
cHf. 3, 2.5, 6. Rc. 1, 3. 3, 7. Co. 1, 1. TA. 3,
5. TAN. 2, 1. Rc. 1, 1. JC. 1, 2.
Brook, rivulet MV. 5, 1. AL. 2, 1. cHf. 4, 8.
Compare the gr. rheō, bryō, blyzō, brykō,
brychō.

Broom groves, perhaps birchen groves. T.

4, 1. From broom, kin to the gr. rhamnos, lowsax. Braam.

draw water out of a well. KJ, 5, 2. Rc. 4, 1. Kin to beacon, wh. s.

Buck-basket, basket in which linen was carried
to be washed, or bucked. Falstaff's adventure
in the buckbasket. MW. 3, 3. is said to allude
to a story of Ben Jonson being so sent home
in a state of ebriety.

to Buckle, to fight, cope. aHf. 1, 2. 5, 4. cHf.
1,4; to fasten with a buckle, or a ring with
a tongue. M. 5, 2. Buckle is the fr. boucle,
shield, from the boss, or stud. TC. 3, 1.
to Buckler, to shield, to screen. bHf. 3, 2.
TS. 3, 2.

Bucklers, shield. To give the bucklers, to
yield, or lay by all thoughts of defence. MA.
5, 2. The phrase to take up the b. for to con-
tend seems to argue, that to give here is, to
surrender, to lay aside, to give away, although
the buckler were not the prize.
Bucklersbury, a street in Shk's time inhab-
ited chiefly by grocers, pepperers, apotheca-
ries, druggists, who sold all kind of herbs, green
as well as dry cf. Ben Jons. VIII, 154. MW.
3, 3.

Brow, eyebrow, front. WT. 2, 1. Sad brow,
frowning. MA. 1, 1. AL. 3, 2. As it is the
pers. ebru, the island. brun, bryn, the gr.
ophrys, it signifies an eminence, height, point,
hill, strand, and figuratively culmination,
highest degree, flower, top, summit. Hence
'you look as if you held a brow of much dis-
traction. WT. 1, 2. you seem uttermost dis-
tracted; and like a gallant in the brow of
youth. bHf. 5, 2. in the top, flower, splen- Buck-washing MW. 3, 3.
dour of youth. Johnson's conjecture blow is
therefore superfluous.

Brownists, a sect founded by Robert Brown
of Rutlandshire, who spent great part of his
life in several prisons, to which he was com-
mitted for his steady adherence to his own
particular opinions, as a violent opponent of
the discipline and ceremonies of the church of
England. He died in gaol at Northampton,
in 1630. TN. 3, 2.

to Browze, brouwze, browse, brouze, to knap, gnaw off. AC. 1, 4. WT. 3, 3. Cy. 3, 6. Compare the Sax. brysan, conterere, old engl. to brise. (Horne Tooke II, 292.) bruise, the gr. brykō, bryssō, whence to bruttle, brut, brutte, - again the gr. rhaō, rhaiō, rhassō, brōskō, broo, broseio, brukos, brūchos, and

Buckram, linen cloth, stiffened with gum. a Hd. 2, 4. bHƒ. 4, 7.

Bud, first shoot of a plant. MA. 4, 1. Compare the gr. byō, to swell, strut by warmth and wet, phyō, phyton, lowsax. Botze, fr. bouton, ital. bottone.

to

Budge, to move, stir. T. 5, 1. cHf. 5, 4.
give way. MV. 2, 2. TS. Ind. 1. aHf. 1, 3.
RJ. 3, 1. S. to bodge.

Buffet, flap on the shops, box on the ears,
cuff. aHd. 2, 3. H. 3, 2. AC. 1, 4.
to Buffet, to cuff, box. JC. 1, 2. He. 5, 2.
Buff-jerkin, a leathern waistcoat; afterwards
one of the colour thence called buff, a dress
worn by serjeants and catchpoles. CE. 4, 2.
a Hd. 1, 2.

Bug, bugbear, frightful object, TS. 1, 2. WT.
3, 2. cHf. 5, 2. Cy. 5, 3. H. 5, 2. TC. 4, 2.
Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 328. Related to bo, ind.

[blocks in formation]

bus.

Bulk, massiness; body. Rc. 1, 4. H. 2, 1; balk, jut of balks. 0.5, 1. Kin to belly, isl. belg. lat. pellis, germ. Balg, middlelat. bulga, gr. bolgidion, budget, pocket, fr. bouge, ital. bolgia, lat. villus, vellus, germ. Vlauss. In the latter signification it touches to balk. Bullet, ball of a gun. He. 4, 3. MA. 2, 3. AW. 3, 2. bHd. 2, 4. 4, 3.

Bully, braggart, bravo, hector, braggadocchio. He. 4, 1. MD. 4, 2. MW. 2, 1. also bullyrock, bullyrook. MW. 1, 8. 2, 1. 4, 5. from bull. S. Bug.

buskin) with high heels and coming up to the
middle of the leg. MD. 2, 1.

Busky. aHd. 5, 1. the same as bosky, woody.
to Buss, to kiss. KJ. 3, 4. TC. 4, 5.
Buss, a kiss. bHd. 2, 4. 3, 2. Compare the pers.
buseh, lat. basium, fr. baiser, ital. baciare,
switz. Butsch, austr. Bussel, Busserl, bussen.
Guttural form is the gr. kysai, and the germ.
küssen. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 1, 403.

to Bustle, to make noise, to excite tumult. Rc.
1, 1. JC. 2, 4; to make haste, to dispatch,
be quick. Rc. 5, 3.

But, otherwise than. T. 1, 2. TS. 3, 2; only
AC. 1, 1. 3, 9; without, unless. AC. 4, 10.
From the Sax. butan. S. Steevens and Horne
Tooke Div. of P. I, 190. 335. Douce's Ill. of
Sh. I, 332.

But-shaft, a kind of arrow used for shooting
at butts, formed without a barb, as to stick
into the butts and yet be easily extracted. RJ.
2, 4. LL. 1, 2.

Butt, mark to shoot at. 0.5, 2. AC. 5, 1. cHf. 1, 4. From the fr. bout.

to Butter, to besmear with butter. KL. 2, 4. Butterwoman's rate to market AL. 3, 2. is call'd a sort of foul and common numbers in poetry.

Bum, arse. MM. 2, 1. MD. 2, 1. TA. 1, 2. In Shk's time it was stuffed with brane. S. Drake's Shk. and his time. II, 104. Bump, boil (wh. s.), bunch. RJ. 1, 3. Bumper, brimmer, brimful, topful glass. bHd. 5, 3. Kin to the germ. Humpe, from the gr. kyō, kybō, kymbō, whence kybe, kybos, kym-Buttock, rump, haunches, breeches. AW. 2,2. be, kymbos, kypellon, the lat. cymbium. The Co. 2, 1. CE. 3, 2. Compare podex, and the domineering idea of these words is that of gr. byttos. being bellied and hollow, covering, conceiving, containing.

Bumbard. S. bombard.

Bung, stopple for a barrel; low lived term of reproach for a sharper, or pickpocket. bHd. 2,4. In the cant language it meant a pocket, and a purse. The french bonde, bondon, germ. Spund.

Bunting, terraneola et rubetra, a sort of lark, building the nest in hedges, on the earth, or in the corn. AW. 2, 5.

to Buoy, to swim easily, to lift itself, to float. KL. 3, 7. From buoy, a cork, wood or tub, sign of the anchor and shallows.

Burden, chorus, verse repeated in a song.

AL. 3, 2.

Burglary, housebreaking. MA. 4, 2. No doubt for burglayery, as burglar has the forms burglarer, burglerer, burglayer, which leads to the gr. leia, leïs, prey.

Burgonet, burganet, contr. burgant, a kind of helmet, a burgundian casque. bHf. 5, 2. AC. 1, 5.

to Burn daylight, a proverbial phrase appli-
cable to superfluous actions. MW. 2, 1. RJ.
1, 4.

Burned, burnt, infected by the venerian disease.
KL. 3, 2.

to Burst, to break, split, crack. TS. ind. 1.
bHd. 3, 2. O. 1, 1. Compare the germ. bresten,
bersten, to break, the gr. rhessō, rhēgo, rhē-
kō, rhechō.

Burton on the heath, a village in Warwickshire, southern at the Avon, eighteen miles from Stratford. Close by Stratford the village Wilnecotte, or Wincot, renowned for its ale. Bush. Good wine needs no bush, a proverb alluding to the bush of ivy, which was usually hung out at vintners' doors. AL. epil. S. to

lime.

Bushel, a measure of eight gallons. MV. 1, 1.
Buskin'd, tragically truss'd, tuck'd up, with

"a shoe or boot (of which the diminutive is

Button. Bachelor's button, ranunculus bulbosus, carried in pocket by young men for knowing the love of their lasses by its encreasing or withering. S. Smith note to M1⁄4”. 3, 2. Buttress, prop supporting the but-end of a building, support. M. 1, 6. Perhaps from the fr. poutre.

Burom, easily bended or bowed to one's will,
obedient; gay, lively, nimble, merry. He. 3,
6. Compare the germ. biegsam. S. Horne Tooke
Div. of P. II, 218.

to Buz, to hum, as gnats, flies, bees. TɅn.3, 2.
Hh. 3, 2. cHf. 2, 6. TS. 2, 1. Rb. 2, 1. cHf.
Bus, seems a kind of cabalistical word used by
3,1; to suggest. bHf. 1, 2.
the impostors in their invocations. H. 2, 2.
6. Gifford's Ben Jonson IIII, 36. V, 368. Douce's
Ill, of Sh. 2, 230.

Buzzard, fowlhawk. Rc. 1, 1; coxcomb. TS.
2, 1.

By'r lakin, by our ladykin, or lady. MD. 3, 1.

C.

Cabin, cottage. TN. 1, 5. Compare the gr. kyō,
kydō, kythō, keuthō.

to Cabin, to confine in a cabin. M. 3, 4.
Cable, anchor-rope. AC. 2, 7; metaphorically,
occasion, cause, reason, matter. 0.1, 2. From
the gr. kaminos, ital. gomena.
Caddis, a kind of coarse ferret, or worsted
lace. WT. 4, 8.

Cade, barrel, cask, little tun. blf. 4, 2. From
the gr. kados, lat. cadus, from chao, to be
hollow and comprehend.

Cage, inclosure for birds; jail, prison. Cy. 3, 3.
AL. 3, 2. bHf. 4, 2.
Cain-coloured, yellow, or red (hair) which,
being esteemed a deformity, was by common
consent attributed to Cain and Judas. MW, 1, 4.
Canecoloured of some editions is misspelling
and misunderstanding.

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