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 puffe vp vneuenly, and vnhandsomely.

Bot: m. ''A woodden shooe, or patten. ¶Poict. also, as ''But. ¶Norm. also, a luncheon, or (ill fauored) big peece of.

Bot. Illfauoredly-round; whence;  Pied bot. A stumpe or club foot.

Botaige. temps de botaige. is from the ninth of October to the last of Nouember.

Botanique: com. Hearball; of, or belonging to hearbes, or, to skill in hearbs.

Botanomantie: f. Diuination, or witchcraft by the vertue of hearbes.

Botargues: f. The hard rowes of the Murene, or of a kind of Mullet, salted, and then dried, and eaten to prouoke drinking.

Bote: f. A boot; also, a faggot, a bundle; a bottle.  S'ils pensent ainsi ils bruslent leurs botes. They are farre wide, or much too blame, if &c; or (as we say) I smell them hither.  Tous les deux y laisseront les botes. They can neither of them scape with life, they will both miscarrie, or die, in the place.

Boté. Booted; See Botté. Boteau. A bundle, or bottle, as of hay, &c.

Boteler. To botle, or bundle vp; to make into botles, or bundles.

Boteleur: m. A maker of botles, or of bundles.

Boter. To boot, pull on boots, or put boots on; also, to prune, or cut of the superfluous branches of a tree.

Bothoral: m. ale: f. Whealie, poukie, pushie.

Botine: f. A buskin, or Summer boot.

Botineur: m. A buskin-maker; also, one that continually weares boots, or buskins; as a Monke, or any such creature, who not being satisfied with wearing them aliue, will needs be buried in them, dead.

Botryte: f. Cadmia in grape-like clusters, gathered from the roofes of copper-houses, or ouer the furnaces wherein copper is ordinarily melted, or made.

Botte: f. The vessell which wee call, a Butt; also, as Bote. Botté. Booted.  Gens bottez de soin. Silly clownes, rude swaynes, ignorant boores, home-bred hinds.

Botteler. as Boteler. Botter. as Boter. Botterol: m. A Toad. (vieil mot.) Bou. A boyling, or bubling.

Bouade: f. The worke of two oxen, or vse of a small cart, due certaine daies in Summer by tenants (that hold by socage, or villenage) vnto their landlords, for the labouring, and dressing of their vineyards.

Bouban, & Boubance. Looke Bobance. Boubax. The name of a kind of Oliues.

Bouc: m. A male Goat, or hee Goat; also, the engine of batterie called a Ramme; also, a harsh, hard, and thicke Spunge. Bouc d'estain. The Alpian, and long-hornd wild goat, or beast like a goat, called (in Latine) Ibex. Barbe de bouc. Goats-beard, Starre of Ierusalem, Noone-tide, Goe-to-bed at noone; (an hearbe.) Couillon de bouc. See Couillon. Espine de bouc. Goats-thorne (whose root yeeldeth Gum-dragagant.) Langue de bouc. Wild buglosse, wall buglosse, snakes buglosse, Vipers buglosse, Vipers hearbe. Oeil de bouc. The little shell-fish called, a Lympine, or Lempet; Seeke Oeil. Yeux de bouc. Gogle eyes; rolling eyes. De bouc estourdi. Rashly, turbulently, with a hurrie. Traire les boucs. To loose time, or spend it fruitlesly.

Boucal: m. as Bocal; also, a vent for the fire, or heat, of a furnace. Boucan: m. A woodden gridiron, whereon the Cannibals broile peeces of men, and other flesh.

Boucané: m. ée: f. Ridden by a goat; also, rosted, broyled, or scorched on a woodden gridiron.

Boucaner. To doe like a goat; to imitate the goat; also, to broyle, or scorch on a woodden gridiron.

Boucanier: m. ere: f. Old, stale, past date, out of vse, out of season.

Boucassin. as Boccasin. Bouccaiart: m. Plaine Chamlet, vnwater Chamlet; or, as Moncaiart. Bouchard. A kind of great-eared browne wheat.

Boucharde: f. A Masons hammer, or picke, pointed at both ends like a diamond.

Bouchasses: f. Wild, or bastard, Chestnuts.

Bouche: f. A mouth; also, a passage, entrie, entrance, or ouerture, into. Bouches à feu. Spit-fires; Artillerie, Ordnance. Bouche fresche. Looke Frez. La bouche, & les mains. Homage, and fealtie; or, the ceremonies vsed in the doing thereof. De broc en bouche. Immediatly, speedily, suddainly, out of hand, in a trice, while tis hot. Avoir bouche à Court. To eat and drinke scotfree; to haue budge-a-Court, to be in ordinarie at Court. Avoir la bouche fraiche. Looke Fraiche. Avoir la bouche à pleine main. A horse to be neither too hard, nor too sensible, of mouth; thereby giuing the hand a full rest. Avoir bonne bouche. To be secret; to keepe counsell. Elle a la langue en la bouche non en la bourse (of a pratling huswife) her tongue is euer at hand I warrant you. Dire de bouche. To tell, or vtter expressely, to make especiall mention of in speech, to declare vnto in plaine, and open tearmes. Faire la bouche à. To instruct, or giue a man his lesson, beforehand. Faire la petite bouche. To simper; Il ne faisoit point la petite bouche''. He neither dissembled, nor was loth to vtter it; he spoke it openly, plainly, freely ynough.'' On y doit fermer la bouche, & ouvrir la bourse; viz. When almes are to be giuen. Garder pour la bonne bouche. To reserue a thing as the best for the last bit; to keepe it long of purpose to make vp his mouth withall. Gouverner bien la bouche. To be temperat in diet. Large de bouche, & estroict de ceincture. That promises, or offers, much, but put vnto it, will part with little or nothing. Moderer sa bouche. To feed moderatly, to eat soberly, or no more then shall doe him good. Parler de quelqu'un en bonne bouche. To speake well, or giue a good report of one; en male bouche; to reproch, raile on, reuile one. Tromper vn corbeau à bouche beante. See Corbeau. Venir l'eau à la bouche. Cela luy fit venir l'eau à la bouche. That made his teeth water, or, set him on a longing. Bouche fresche pied sec: Prov. He that would liue a long time, must keepe both his mouth coole, and moist, and his feet warme, and drie.