ΒΟΙ Through fire and through flame, through ford Shaksp. and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire. A gulf profound! as that Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old. Milton. He walks upon bogs and whirlpools; whereSouth. soever he treads, he sinks. Learn from so great a wit, a land of bogs With ditches fenc'd, a heaven fat with fogs. Dryden. He is drawn, by a sort of ignis fatuus, into bogs and mire almost every day of his life. Watts. BOG-TROTTER. n. s. [from bog and trot.] One that lives in a boggy country. To BOʻGGLE. v. n. [from bogil, Dutch, a spectre, a bugbear, a phantom.] 1. To start; to fly back; to fear to come forward. You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you. Nature, that rude, and in her first essay, 2. To hesitate; to be in doubt. And never boggle to restore Hudibras. The well-shaped changeling is a man that has a rational soul, say you? Make the ears a little longer, and more pointed, and the nose a little flatter than ordinary, and then you begin to Locke. boggle. 3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. When summoned to his last end, it was no time for him to boggle with the world. Howel. Bo'GGLER. n.s. [from boggle.] A doubter; a timorous man. You have been a boggler ever. Shakspeare. Bo'GGY.adj.[from bog.] Marshy; swampy. low, and Their country was very narrow, boggy,and, by great industry and expences, deArbuthnot. fended from the sea. Bo'GHOUSE. n. s. [from bog and house.] A house of office. BOHE'A. n. s. [an Indian word.] A species of tea, of higher colour, and more astringent taste, than green tea. Coarse pewter, consisting chiefly of lead, is part of the bales in which bobea tea was brought from China. Woodward. As some frail cup of China's fairest mold The tumults of the boiling bobea braves, And holds secure the coffee's sable waves. Tickel. Pope. She went from opera, park, assembly, play,. To morning walks, and pray'rs three hours a day; To part her time 'twixt reading and bobea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea. To BOIL. v. n. [bouiller, Fr. bullio, Lat.] 1. To be agitated by heat; to fluctuate with heat. He saw there boil the fiery whirlpools. Chapman. Suppose the earth removed, and placed nearer to the sun, in the orbit of Mercury, there the whole ocean would boil with extremity of heat. Bentley. 2. To be hot; to be fervent, or effer- That strength with which my boiling youth When in the vale of Balasor I fought. Dryden. Well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue, Dryden. 3. To move with an agitation like that of boiling water. Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide, The trembling fins the boiling waves divide. Gay. 4. To be in hot liquor, in order to be made tender by the heat. 5. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake. To cook by boiling. Shakspeare. If you live in a rich family, roasting and boil ing are below the dignity of your office, and which it becomes you to be ignorant of. Swift. 6. To boil over. To run over the vessel with heat. A few soft words and a kiss, and the good man melts; see how nature works and boils over in him! Congreve. This hollow was a vast cauldron, filled with melted matter, which, as it boiled over in any part, Addison. ran down the sides of the mountain. To BọIL. v.a. To heat, by putting into boiling water; to seeth. To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, Bacon. the new seeds will sprout sooner. In eggs boiled and roasted, into which the water entereth not at all, there is scarce any Bacon difference to be discerned." See BILE. BOIL. n. s. BoʻILARY. n. s. [from To boil.] A place at the salt works where the salt is boiled. BO'TLER. n. s. [from boil.] 1. The person that boils any thing. That such alterations of terrestrial matter are not impossible, seems evident from that notable practice of the boilers of salt-petre. Boyle. 2. The vessel in which any thing is boiled. This coffee room is much frequented; and there are generally several pots and boilers Woodward. before the fire. BO'ISTEROUS. adj. [byster, furious, Dutch.] 1. Violent; loud; roaring; stormy. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust As when loud winds a well-grown oak would Up by the roots, this way and that they bend 2. Turbulent; tumultuous; furious. 3. Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself His sweetness won a more regard To quell the mighty of the earth, th' oppressor, The brute and boist'rous force of violent men. Milton. Still must I beg thee not to name Sempronius: Lucia, I like not that loud boisterous man, ziddis. Unwieldy; clumsily violent. His boisterous club, so buried in the ground, He could not rearen up again so light But that the knight him at advantage found. F. Qe. 4. It is used by Woodward of heat; violent. Acceptre, snatch'd with an unruly hand, A weak and inanimate kind of loadstone, with a few magnetical lines, but chiefly consisting of a bolary and clammy substance. Brown. BOLD. adj. [bald, Saxon.] 1. Daring; brave; stout; courageous; magnanimous; fearless; intrepid. The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the rightecus are beld as a lica. Proverbs. I have seen the councils of a noble country grow bold, or timorous, according to the fits of his good or ill health that managed them. Temple. 2. Executed with spirit, and without mean caution. These nervous, bold; those, languid and remiss. Rescommon. The cathedral church is a very bold work, and a master-piece of Gothick architecture. Addison. 3. Confident; not scrupulous; not timo the eye. Catachreses and hyperboles are to be used judiciously, and placed in poetry, as heightenings and shadows in painting, to make the figure bolder, and cause it to stand off to sight. Dryden. 7. Open; smooth; even; level: a sailor's term. Her dominions have bold accessible coasts. Howel. 8. To make bold. To take freedoms: a phrase not grammatical, though common. To be bold is better; as, I was bold to tell the house, that scandalous livings make scandalous ministers. Rudgerd. I have made bold to send to your wife; My suit is, that she will to Desdemona Procure me some access. Shakspears. And were y' as good as George a Green, Hudibras. I durst not make thus bold with Ovid, lest some future Milbourn should arise. Dryden. Some men have the fortune to be esteemed wits, only for making bold to scoff at these things, which the greatest part of mankind reverence. Tillotson. To BOʻLDEN. v. a. [from bold.] To make bold; to give confidence. Quick inventers, and fair ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, and perchance better too, at the sudden for that present, than any other can do, use less help of diligence and study. Ascham's Schoolmaster, I am much too vent'rous In tempting of your patience, but am bolden'd How now, bolajace! cries an old trot: sirrah, I have seen those silliest of creatures; and, seeing their rare works, I have seen enough to confite all the boldfaced atheists of this age. Bramball against Hobbes. BOʻLDLY. adv. [from bold.] 1. In a bold manner; with courage; with spirit. Thus we may boldly speak, being strengthened with the example of so reverend a prelate. Hooker. 2. It may perhaps be sometimes used, in 1. Courage; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; 2. Exemption from caution and scrupulous nicety. 3. The boldness of the figures is to be hidden sometimes by the address of the poet, that they may work their effect upon the mind. Dryden. Freedom; liberty. Great is my boldness of speech toward you; great is my glorying in you." 2 Corinthians. 4. Confident trust in God. 5. Our fear excludeth not that boldness which becometh saints. Hooker, We have boldness and access with confidence, by the faith of him. Ephesians. Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Hebrews. Assurance; freedom from bashfulness; confident mien. Wonderful is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? Boldness. What second and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferiour to other Bacon. parts. Sure, if the guilt were theirs, they could not. With such a gallant boldness; if 't were thine, 2. A kind of earth. Bole Armeniack is an astringent earth, which takes its name from Armenia, the country from which we have it. Woodward. 3. A measure of corn, containing six bushels. Of good barley put eight boles, that is, about six English quarters, in a stone trough. Mortimer. BO'LIS. n. s. [Latin] Bolis is a great fiery ball, swiftly hurried through the air, and generally drawing a tail after it. Aristotle calls it capra. There have often been immense balls of this kind. Muschenbrocck. BOLL. n. s. A round stalk or stem; as, a boll of flax. To BOLL. v. n. [from the noun.] To rise in a stalk. And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. Exodus. BOLSTER. n. s. [bolɲrre, Sax. bolster, 1. Something laid on the bed, to raise filled with down or feathers. Perhaps some cold bank is her bolster now, Or 'gainst the rugged bark of some broad elmi Milton. Leans her unpillow'd head. This arm shall be a balster for thy head; I'll fetch clean straw to make a soldier's bed. Gay. 2. A pad, or quilt, to hinder any pressure, or fill up any vacuity. Up goes her hand, and off she slips The bolsters that supply her hips. Swift. 3. A pad, or compress, to be laid on a wound. The bandage is the girt, which hath a bolster in the middle, and the ends tacked firmly together. 4. In horsemanship. Wiseman. The bolsters of a saddle are those parts raised upon the bows, to hold the rider's thigh. Farrier's Dict. To BOʻLSTER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To support the head with a bolster. 2. To afford a bed to. Mortal eyes do see them bolster, More than their own. Shakspeare's Othello. 3. To hold wounds together with a compress. The practice of bolstering the cheeks forward, does little service to the wound, and is very uneasy to the patient. Sharp 4. To support; to hold up; to maintain. This is now an expression somewhat coarse and obsolete. We may be made wiser by the publick persuasions grafted in men's minds, so they be used to further the truth, not to bolster errour. Hooker. The lawyer sets his tongue to sale for the Hakewill. bolstering out of unjust causes. It was the way of many to bolster up their crazy Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell; wound. 2. Lightning; a thunderbolt. Dryden. Sing'd with the flames, and with the bolts transfix'd, mix'd. With native earth your blood the monsters Dryden. 3. Bolt upright; that is, upright as an arrow. Brush iron, native or from the mine, consisteth of long striæ, about the thickness of a small knitting needle, bolt upright, like the brisGrew. tles of a stiff brush. As I stood bolt upright upon one end, one of Addison. the ladies burst out. 4. The bar of a door, so called from being 'Tis not in thee, to oppose the bolt Shakspeare. 5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner. This is, I think, corrupted from bought, or link. I. Away with him to prison; lay bolts enough Shakspeare. upon him. To BOLT. v. a. [from the noun.] I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, 3. To fasten, as a bolt or pin; to pin; to keep together. 4. That I could reach the axle, where the pins are Which bolt this frame, that I might pull them Ben Jonson. out! To fetter; to shackle. It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. Shakspeare. 5. To sift, or separate the parts of any thing with a sieve. [bluter, Fr.] 6. He now had boulted all the flour. Spenter. In the bolting and sifting of fourteen years of power and favour, all that came out could not Wotton. be pure meal. I cannot bolt this matter to the bran, It would be well bolted out, whether great re That's bolted by the northern blast twice o'er. Shakspeare. To BOLT. v. n. To spring out with speed and suddenness; to start out with the quickness of an arrow. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Of purpose to deceive us. Drayton. They erected a fort, and from thence they bolted like beasts of the forest, sometimes into the forest, sometimes into the woods and fastnesses, and sometimes back to their den. Bacbn. As the house was all in a flame, out bolts a mouse from the ruins to save herself. L'Estrange. I have reflected on those men who, from time to time, have shot themselves into the world. I have seen many successions of them; some bolting out upon the stage with vast applause, and others hissed off. Dryden. The birds to foreign seats repair'd; And beasts, that bolted out, and saw the forest bar'd. Dryden. BOLT-ROPE. n. s. [from bolt and rope.] The rope on which the sail of a ship is sewed and fastened. Sea Dict. BO'LTER. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A sieve to separate meal from bran or husks; or to separate finer from coarser parts. Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to bakers wives, and they have made bolters of them. Shakspeare. With a good strong chopping-knife mince the two capons, bones and all, as small as ordinary minced meat; put them into a large neat bolter. Bacon's Natural History. When superciliously he sifts Through coarsest bolter others gifts. Hudibras. 2. A kind of net. These hakes, and divers others of the forecited, are taken with threads, and some of them with the bolter, which is a spiller of a bigger size. Carew. BO'LTHEAD. n. s. A long strait-necked glass vessel, for chymical distillations, called also a matrass, or receiver. This spirit abounds in salt, which may be separated, by putting the liquor into a bolthead with a long narrow neck. Boyle, BO'LTING-HOUSE. n. s. [from bolt and house.] The place where meal is sifted. The jade is returned as white, and as powdered, as if she had been at work in a boltingbouse. Dennis. BO'LTSPRIT. n. s. A mast running out Bo'wSPRIT. S at the head of a ship, not standing upright, but aslope. The but end of it is generally set against the foot of the foremast; so that they are a stay to one another. The length without board is sufficient to let its sails hang clear of all incumbrances. If the boltsprit fail in bad weather, the foremast And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards, and boltsprit, would I flame distinctly. Shakspeare. BO'LUS. n. s. [fix] A form of medicine, in which the ingredients are made up into a soft mass, larger than pills, to be swallowed at once. Keep their bodies soluble the while by clysters, lenitive boluses of cassia and manna, with syrup of violets. Wiseman. By poets we are well assur'd, That love, alas! can ne'er be cur'd; Swift. An upper chamber being thought weak, was Supported by a pillar of iron, of the bigness of one's arm in the midst; which, if you had struck, would make a little flat noise in the room, but a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon. 2. A hollow iron ball, or shell, filled with gunpowder, and furnished with a vent for a fusee, or wooden tube filled with combustible matter, to be thrown out from a mortar, which had its name from the noise it makes. The fusee, being set on fire, burns slowly till it reaches the gunpowder, which goes off at once, bursting the shell to pieces with incredible violence: whence the use of bombs in besieging towns. The largest are about eighteen inches in diameter. By whom they were invented is not known, and the time is uncertain; some fixing it to 1588, and others to 1495. Chambers. The loud cannon missive iron pours, To BOMB. v. a. [from the noun.] To fall To Bruxelles marches on secure, To bomb the monks, and scare the ladies. Prior. BOMB-CHEST. n. s. [from bomb and chest.] A kind of chest filled usually with bombs, and sometimes only with gunpower, placed under ground, to tear and blow it up in the air, with those who stand on it. Chambers. BOMB-KETCH. 1. 5. A kind of ship, BOMB-VESSEL. strongly built, to bear the shock of a mortar, when bombs are to be fired into a town. Nor could an ordinary fleet, with bomb-ves sels, hope to succeed against a place that has in Addison. its arsenal gallies and men of war. BOMBARD. n. s. [bombardus, Latin.] Obsolete. 1. A great gun; a cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles. 2. A barrel. Obsolete. To BOMBA'RD. v. a. [from the noun.] To attack with bombs. A medal is struck on the English failing in ΒΟΝ their attempts on Dunkirk, when they endeavoured to blow up a fort, and bombard the town. Addison. BOMBARDIER. n. s. [from bombard.] The engineer whose employment is to shoot bombs. The bombardier tosses his ball sometimes into the midst of a city, with a design to fill all around Tatler. him with terrour and combustion. BOMBARDMENT. n. s. [from bombard.] An attack made upon any city, by throwing bombs into it. Genoa is not yet secure from a bombardment, Not pedants motley tongue, soldiers bombast, Donne. Are all the flights of heroick poetry to be concluded bombast, unnatural, and mere madness, because they are not affected with their Dryden. excellencies? BO'MBAST. adj. [from the substantive.] High sounding; of big sound without meaning. He, as loving his own pride and purpose, Evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war. Shaksp. BOMBILA'TION. n. s. [from bombus, Lat.] Sound; noise; report. How to abate the vigour, or silence the bombilation of guns, a way is said to be by borax and butter, mixt in a due proportion, which will almost take off the report, and also the force of the charge. Brown's Vulgar Errours. BOMBY'CINOUS. adj. [bombycinus, Lat.] Silken; made of silk. BONA ROBA. n. s. [Ital. a fine gown.] A showy wanton. We knew where the bona robas were. Shaksp. BONA'SUS. n. s. [Lat.] A kind of buffalo, or wild bull. BONCHRETIEN. n. s. [French.] · A species of pear, so called, probably, There left me, and my man, both bound to- Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds asunder, Let any one send his contemplation to the extremities of the universe, and see what conceivable hopes, what bond he can imagine, to hold this mass of matter in so close a pressure Locke. together. 4. 5. 6. 7. bond. may all be joined together, and make a good Mortimer's Husbandry. [In the plural.] Chains; imprisonment; captivity.. Acts. Whom I perceived to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death, or of bonds." Cement of union; cause of' union; link of connexion. Wedding is great Juno's crown; O blessed bond of board and bed! Shakspeare. Go with me to a notary, seal me there Dryden. Obligation; law by which any man is obliged. Unhappy that I am! I cannot heave Locke. Take which you please, it dissolves the bonds of government and obedience. BOND. adj. [from bind, perhaps for bound; from gebonden, Saxon.] Captive; in a servile state. Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we Bo'NDAGE. n. s. [from bond.] You only have overthrown me, and in my bondage consists my glory. Sidney. Shakspeare. We make a choir, as doth the prison'd bird, 2. Obligation; tie of duty. If she has a struggle for honour, she is in a bondage to love; which gives the story its turn that way. Pope. He must resolve by no means to be enslaved, and brought under the bondage of observing oaths, which ought to vanish when they stand in competition with eating and drinking, or taking money. South. Bo'NDMAID. n. s. [from bond, captive, and maid.] A woman slave. Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself, Shaks To make a bondmaid and a slave of me. ɓо'ND MAN. n. s. [from bond and man.] A man slave. Amongst the Romans, in making of a bondman free, was it not wondered wherefore so great ado should be made? the master to present his slave in some court, to take him by the hand, and not only to say, in the hearing of the publick magistrate, I will that this man become free; but, after those solemn words uttered, to strike him on the cheek, to turn him round, the hair of his head to be shaved off, the magistrate to touch him thrice with a rod; in the end, a Hooker. cap and a white garment given him. O freedom! first delight of human kind; 3. Union; connexion: a workman's term. Observe, in working up the walls, that no side of the house, nor any part of the walls, be brought up three feet above the other, before the next adjoining wall be wrought up to it, so that they BONDSEʼRVANT. n. s. [from bond and ser |