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 Bois flotte. A float-boat; of wood, or timber, fastened together, and conueied down a streame vnto the place where it is to be sold or vsed. Bois flotté. The same. Bois fruictier. The branch of a tree, or plant, which beareth fruit; a fruit-bearing branch. Bois de fustée. Branchlesse wood; naked, or powld, trees. Bois gentil. The plant Mezereon, Germane Oliue-*spurge, Dwarfe-Bay. Bois de haute fustaye. High trees, tall & great trees, goodly woods; properly, such as haue not beene cut, nor lopped of at the least 30 yeres before; Looke Fustaye. Bois Hierosme. The name of a certaine tender and delicate peare. Le bois d'une lict. A bedstead. Bois mort. All kind of dead, and drie wood in forrests; firewood. Bois moslé. as Bois de moulle; especially in the last sence. Bois de moulle. Billets; logs; or log-wood; great firewood of a certaine size; or any wood that hath beene assized by a Mouleur. Bois d'oeuvre. Great timber, or wood, squared, and readie for vse, or worke. Bois puant. Stinking beane-trefoile; (a shrub.) Bois de quartier. Quarters of timber; or timber for quarters. Bois revenant. A copse, or yong wood. Bois sainct. Gwacum, Pock-wood. Bois de sap, ou de sapin. Deale planks, deale boords. Bois de serpe. Wood of ten yeres growth, or vpwards. Bois taillis. Copse-wood, vnder-wood; such wood as is felled, or cut euery seuen or eight yeares. Bois de touche. A holt, groue, or thicke Tuft of high trees (growing neere a house, & gracing the seat therof.) Bois vedat. as Bois bedat; Looke Bedat. Blanc bois. Box, willow, Poplar, Aspe, & other smaller trees, whose wood is not fit for timber-worke. Gentil bois. Wild line, wild flax. Long bois. A pike, launce, or speare. Mort bois. Willow, Thorne, Alder, Broome, Ginepar; generally, all trees that either beare no fruit, or no profitable fruit. Grand abbateur de bois. A great bugbeare, kill-cow, scarre-crow. Ie cognois bien de quel bois il se chauffe. I know well ynough what helps he vseth, what meanes he relies on; or, I know very well what stuffe there is in him, what matter he's made of; what course hee followes, what maner of life he leads. Il est du bois dont on le fait. Said of a dull fellow, or of one that is no other than he is made, or hath nothing but what is put into him. Faire de bois flesches. Il ne sçait plus de quel bois faire flesches. He is at the last cast, at his wits end, at his vtmost; he knowes no longer what course to take, what meanes to vse, what shift to make. Faire de tout bois flesches. To vse euery thing, or entertaine any thing, that serues his turne, or makes for his purposes. Faire haut le bois. Souldiors to stop and make a stand, aduancing their pikes; also, to drinke hard; carouse lustily, quaffe apace. Faire visage de bois à. To shut, or clap to, a doore against; in stead of a welcome to shut out of doores. Pour fendre le bois il fit des coings du bois mesme He made the mans owne meanes &c, the instruments of his ruine.  Mettre le doigt entre le bois, & l'escorce. To intrude himselfe, or looke too far into, the businesses, or controuersies, which are betweene two neere friends; also, to set them at ods, or together by the eares.  L'oeil tendu au bois. Warily, watchfully, circumspectly; aduisedly; as one that tends, heeds, or lookes well to, his charge, or businesse.  Vn oeil au bois l'autre à la ville. Seeke Oeil. Porter bien son bois. (A horseman) to carrie, or wield his staffe with a good grace.  Elle porte bien son bois. She is of a comely, stately, gallant carriage; or, shee hath a tall, straight, or vpright bodie, and as well she beares it.  Porter des fueilles au bois. To carrie leaues to the wood; to powre[*poore?] water into the sea.  Retourner au champ du bois. To fall vnto his former ill course, or pace; to returne to his old haunt, or vomit.  La victoire sera comme il plaira au bois qui aura bonne beste. He shall win the victorie that can best bestirre himselfe, or lay about him.  Bois laid, & inutile porte le fruict pretieux: Prov. (Meant of the vine) so may a foule, and foolish mother beare an excellent daughter.  Bois ont oreilles, & champs oeillets: Prov. Some heare, and see him, whom he heareth, nor seeth not; but fields haue eyes, and woods haue eares, ye wot; (¶Heywood.)  Le bois acquiert le plain. Seeke Plain. Tout bois vaut busches: Prov. All wood is worth logs.  À conseil de fol cloche de bois: Prov. For woodden consultations woodden bells.  Il fait mauvais aller au bois quand les loups s'entremangent: Prov. Tis ill going to the wood when wolues (are so hungrie, that they) eat one another.  La faim chasse les loups hors du bois: Prov. Hunger driues wolues out of the wood; or (as we say) breaks downe stone walls.  Pour neant va au bois qui marrein ne cognoist: Pro. To no purpose he vndertakes a businesse that vnderstands not the substance; effect, or end, of it.

Boise: f. A log, or great peece of wood; and (more particularly) a brace, of timber.

Boissé: m. ée: f. Hafted, or trimd with box.

Boisseau: m. The (French) bushell; (and the 12 part of a Septier) is somewhat lesse than our London pecke, & a halfe; for a Boisseau of wheat weighes 20 pounds; our pecke of wheat meale, 14.

Boissel d'ozier. A weele, or weere of Ozier twigs.

Boisselet: m. A small (French) bushell; or, the halfe of a Boisseau. Boisselier: m. A maker, or seller of Boisseaux. Boissiere: f. A hedge, thicket, or plot of Box trees.

Boisson: f. Drinke; any liquor wherewith our thirst is quenched; and particularly, small houshold wine.

Boissonnerie: f. Excessiue drinking; swilling; quaffing.

Boiste: f. A box; pix; forset; little casket; also, a chamber for a peece of ordnance; also, as Auche. Boiste de gouvernail. The socket of a Rudder. La boiste d'un os. The hollow panne wherein a huckle-bone is lodged. Lance à boiste. A launce with a blunt, or burre head; a tilting staffe. Es petites boistes met on les bons onguens: Prov. Sweet ointments are in little boxes put.