120 Bottoms. Valleys, old stream works, stents. Boulter. A long fishing line, with short branches and many hooks. Carew. Bounds. Tin bounds are parcels of land marked out by small pits, about a foot deep and wide, at the angles of the ground. Straight lines from pit to pit fix the boundary. Bounders. The holders of tin bounds. Bowerly. Good-looking, handsome. "Eve's a fine, bowerly maid." Mrs. Parvus Adam & Eve, BoWgie or Bougie. A sheep's house, or shed for cattle. M.A.c. The Celtic Cornish word is loiidi, and Lhuyd gives boudzi deves, a sheep-fold. Boudi was anciently houti from the old word bou, a cow, and ti or ty a house. Bowings. The large joints, especially the knees. *^IVe got such pains in my bowings." Bowjouler. A place in a fishing boat for hauling the footline through. w.F.P. BowldacioUS. Brazen, impudent, "you bowldacious hussy." Boxing Harry. A commercial room phrase, used of one who shirked the cost of dining with his fellows at the inn. Doing so was " boxing Harry." A term also used elsewhere. Boys' love. The herb Southernwood, also called by the very proper name " Maidens' dehght."
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