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  Bouïs espineux, ou piquant. The same. Grand bouïs. Great Box, or, the Box tree. Petit bouïs. Dwarfe Box, ground Box.

Bouïssiere: f. A Box-plot; a banke, or ground set, or stored, with Box.

Boukimbarbe. as Bouchimbarbe. Boulanger. as Boulenger. Boular: m. The little round neast of a Martin, Titmouse, &c.

Boulay: m. A Birch tree.

Bouldure d'un moulin. The conduit, or fall-trough, wherein the wheele goes.

Boule: f. A Bowle (to play with; or to drinke in.) Boule veuë. A certaine play at Bowle-casting, wherein if the Bowle be at any time out of sight, the caster looses; whence; Iouër à boule veuë. To deale surely, worke on sure grounds, make a warie bargaine, meddle with that for which he sees good warrant. Le coup valoit bien la boule. See Coup. Tenir pied à boule. To apply his businesse; to hold hard, or keepe close to it.

Bouleau: m. Birche; also, a small Bowle; and hence, Les bouleaux d'un vis. The circles, or circling of a Scrue.

Boulengé: m. ée: f. Baked, made into bread.

Boulenger. To bake, make bread; or make into bread.

Boulengerie: f. A baking; also, a bakehouse.

Boulengier: m. A baker. Pet de boulengier. A fart in syrrup.

Boulengiere: f. A woman baker; also, as Boulengerie; a bakehouse. Bouler. To bowle.

Boulerot: m. A little round, blackish, and fennie Gudgeon, that liues continually in mud.

Boulesche: f. A great fish-net, called a Scene, or Seyne.

Boulet: m. A bullet; also, as Bolete; a Mushrome. Boulet noir. A heauie, poysonous, and blackish kind of the Excrescence, called Agaric. Arbaleste à boulet. A Stone-bow.

Boulette: f. A little Bowle. Boulettes de Cyprés. Cypres nuts, or clogs.

Boulever; ou, Bouleverd: m. A Bulwarke.

Bouleverse: f. A subuersion, ouerturne, ouerthrow.

Bouleversé: m. ée: f. Subuerted, ouerturned, ouerthrowne.

Bouleversement: m. An ouerturning, subuerting, ouerthrowing.

Bouleverser. To ouerturne, or turne topsie turuie, to subuert, to ouerthrow.

Bouleverseur: m. An ouerturner, subuerter, ouerthrower.

Boulevert: m. A Bulwarke.

Boule-veuë. Seeke Boule. Boulge, & Boulgette. as Bouge, & Bougette. Boulie: f. Pap, or broth, for children. Cela sent sa boulie, viz. is childish, fond; raw, rude.

Boulieux: m. euse: f. Full of, or belonging to, pap; also, feeding much on, or fed very much with, pap.

Boulime: m. as Boulimie. Boulimie: f. A greedie hunger, an vnsatiable appetite, by disease, proceeding from the coldnesse of the stomacke.

Boulin: m. A pigeon-hole in a doue-cote.

Boulinage: m. A sayling with a side wind; a laying of tacke aboord.

Bouline: f. A Boline, or Tacke; also, as Boulingue.
  Aller à la bouline. To sayle with a side wind.

Boulingue: f. A top-sayle.

Boullause: f. A Poute, or Eele-poute.

Bouller. To cog, foist; beguile, deceiue, cousen; also, to box, or pommell, with the fists. (v.m.) Boulligni. An Italian coyne worth about ij. d. sterl.

Boullon. as Boulon. Boullonné: m. ée: f. Puffed, or drawn out with puffes.

Bouloers d'vn vis. The circles, or circling of a Scrue.

Bouloirs. as Bouloers. Bouloire: f. A bowling alley.

Boulon. A long, big, and big-headed peg of wood, wherewith Carpenters ioyne great peeces of timber together. Boulon de fer. A great pin of yron, such as tradesmen shut in their shop-windowes withall.

Boulongnois. as Boulligni. Boulouër: m. A bulwarke, fortresse, or strong hold. (v.m.) Boulture: f. A seething, a boyling, a bubling.

Boune. as Borne. Bouquanier. as Boucanier. Bouqué: m. as Bouquet. Bouque d'Ange: f. Conserue, or sucket, of Lettice stalkes.

Bouquer. To kisse another mans thumbe; to take, or giue, a tucke, or kisse; also, to strike sayle, or pay custome, as ships, in passing by some places, are bound to doe.

Bouquet: m. A nosegay, or posie of flowers, &c; also, a lock of wooll; also, a huckle-bone; (also, a great Prawne, ¶Norm.) also, a loope-hole in a wall. Bransle du bouquet. The nosegay daunce, or kissing daunce (for there is much kissing in it.) Bailler le bouquet. See Bailler. Ella a mis le bouquet sous l'oreille. (Of a widow) she would faine be had, woon, or married; (of a whore) she may (for money) be had, woon, or vsed; (In France, when they ride, or lead, out horses, which they would sell, they vse to sticke posies vnder their eares.)

Bouquetier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, nosegayes, nosegay-like.

Bouquetiere: f. An hearbe-wife; such a one as vses to sell, or to present, nosegayes.

Bouquin: m. A Kid; also, the hairie bush, or Pubes. Cornet à bouquin. A (Musicall) Cornet. Vn vieux bouquin. An old booke; also, an old scholler; or, one that hath red ouer many old bookes.

Bouquin: m. ine: f. Leacherous, lasciuious; also, ranke, rammish, goat-like.

Bouquiner. To grow hairie about the priuities; also, to be as lasciuious, or smell as ranke, as a goat; also, to be bookish, or, to read much in old bookes.

Bourache: f. A Borrachoe; or bottle (of leather) also, a candle-case; also, an engine (like a candle-case) wherewith fish is caught.

Bourachon: m. A small Borrachoe; a little candle-case; also, a drunkard, or Tosse-bottle.

Bouras: m. The towe of hempe; the coursest part of any such like stuffe.

Bourasque: f. A storme, tempest, gust, or flaw of wind.

Bourasse: f. A Borrachoe, or (Spanish) bottle of leather.

Bourbe: f. Mud, myre, durt; also, as Bourbier. Bourbelier: m. The breast, or Essay of a wild Swine.

Bourbeter. as Bourbetter; also, to mutter, grunt, murmure.

Bourbeteux: m. euse: f. Louing the mud, as a ducke, &c; also, full of mud.