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 Boistelette: f. A little box, or pix.

Boistemént: m. A limping, halting, lamenesse, of a leg.

Boistément. Limpingly, haltingly, lamely.

Boister. To limpe, hault; be lame, vnperfect, maimed of a leg.

Boisteux: m. euse: f. Limping, cripple, halting, lame of a leg.  Attendre la venue du boisteux. To expect a matter thats slow, or long in comming.  Clocher deuant les boisteux. See Clocher. Boistusant, Limping, halting.

Boite. as Boiste. Ce vin est en sa boite. This wine is drinkable, in season to be drunke, fit to be drawne.

Boitement. A limping, or halting.

Boiter. To limpe, to halt.

Boiteux. as Boisteux. Boitouser. To limpe, halt; be lame of a leg.

Boitte: f. as Boiste; &, as Boite. Boitte de foing. A bottle of hay; (v.m.) Bovin: m. A wine drinker; one that drinks nothing but wine, or wine for the most part.

Bol: m. Th' astringent, and medicinable red earth, or minerall, called Bolearmenie; also, as Bolus. Bol Oriental; &, Bol Armenien Oriental. Oriental Bolearmenie; the best, and truest kind of Bolearmenie, ministred (with good effect) against all poisons, and in pestilent diseases; and more red than the ordinarie one, which should rather bee tearmed Sinopian red earth than Bolearmenie; Looke Rubrique Sinopique. Bolar: m. A kind of Aspe-resembling tree; called thus about Tours. Bolarmene. Bolearmenie.

Bole d'Armenie. The same.

Bolet: m. A little mushrome, or toadstoole; as, Bolete. Bolete: f. A little toadstoole, or mushrome; white without, red within, and the best meat of all others.

Bolieure: f. A lip, or chap.

Boline: f. The Boline; a rope vsed when a ship sayls with a side wind, or goes neere a wind; whence;  Vent à la boline. A side, or scant wind.

Boliner. To sayle by a wind, or close vpon a wind; to lay tacke aboord.

Bolleau. as Bouleau. Bollettes de Cypres. Cyprus nuts, or Clogs.

Bolouër: m. A bulwarke.

Bolus: m. A gobbet; morsell, mouth-full; as much as one can let downe at once; also, clay which hath no minerall substance in it.

Bombance: f. as Bobans; Also, a bragging, or vaunting. Bombarde: f. A Bumbard, or murthering peece.

Bombarder. To discharge a Bumbard; to batter, or murder with Bumbards.

Bombardier. A Bumbardier, or gunner that vseth to discharge murthering peeces; and, more generally, any gunner.

Bombasin: m. The stuffe Bumbasine; or any kind of stuffe thats made of cotton, or of cotton, and linnen.

Bombycine: f. The second, and worse kind of the Leuant Manna, being also, commonly, sophisticated.

Bon: m. The goodnesse, good, or best of a thing; the height, principall part, or point, of a matter. Le bon de l'argent. The surplusage, or ouerplus of the money. Le bon fut. The best, or, onely sport of it, was. Au bon du coup. When most good may be done in the matter; or, when it is time to do a mans best in it. Avoir du bon. Il veut tousiours avoir du bon. He will euer be in the right; in dispute he must alwayes be yeelded vnto.  Faire bon avec. Il faict bon avec luy. He is a good master, his seruice (or companie) is worth the hauing.  Faire bon pour. To answer, or giue his word for; also, to play the game of.  Tenez moy bon. Hold me play, keepe me tacke, stand to me, continue with me.

Bon: m. Bonne: f. Good, honest, vertuous, vpright, sincere; also, apt, orderly, meet, fit; right; currant; holesome, plausible; fauourable, gracious, propitious; also, valiant, hardie, couragious; also, able, durable; sufficient. Bon homme; & bonne femme. A title commonly bestowed on an old man, or woman in reuerence of their age; whereupon some will merily answer to such as thinke to grace them with that title; Ie ne vas pas encores au baston. Bon temps. Prosperitie; also, merriment; or, time spent in merriment. Bailler bonne. Il luy l'a baillé bonne. He hath plagued him throughly, he hath tickled him soundly, he hath paid him home, he hath dealt extreamly with him; also, he hath giuen him a notable gudgeon. Vous la baillez bonne. True Roger; now you haue hit it; now you pay it home; Irronically. Estre en ses bonnes. To be in a good mood, plausible humor, pleasant vaine; also, to be kindly disposed. Il la luy garda bonne. He owed him a good turne; also, (the contrarie) he bore him a grudge, a long time after, for it. Tenir bon. To hold good, to continue faithfull, or constant in a matter. Iouer à bonne veuë. To play sure play, stand on safe tearmes, hazard little or nothing, know well ynough what he does. Tout à bon. Throughly, fully. Trouver bon. To approue, applaud, like, allow of. Bon Advocat mauvais voisin: Prov. A good Councellor an ill companion. Bonne beste s'eschauffe en mangeant: Prov. A good beast eats apace; or, as we say, good at meat good at worke. Bon charron tourne en petit lieu: Prov. A skilfull carter turnes in a narrow corner. Bon chasteau garde qui sçait son corps garder: Pro. He is a sufficient warder that can defend his own bodie. Bon coeur ne peut mentir: Pro. An honest heart cānot, a worthy heart wil not, vtter, or be th' author of, vntruthes. Bon droict a bon mestier d'aide: Prov. Good right hath need of great helpe; (so much ado haue men (in this vniust age) to recouer, or keepe, their owne.) Bon est le dueil qui apres aide: Prov. Happie is that sorrow which is rewarded with happinesse. Bon est le lievre dont la peau couste cent sols: Pro. Seeke Lievre. Bon est le medecin qui se sçait guarir: Prov. He is a good Physitian that can heale his owne infirmitie. Bon gaignage fait bon potage: Pro. Look Potage. Bon gré mal gré va le prestre au Sené: Prov. (Some will expound this by a prouerbe of ours; he must needs go whom the diuell driues.) Bon guet chasse malaventure: Pro. Good watch preuents misfortune; (fast bind fast find, say we.) Bonne iournée fait qui de fol se delivre: Pro. he does an excellent dayes work that rids himselfe of a foole. Bonne la maille qui sauve le denier: Prov. Well