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 Bousinier. pierres Bousinieres. Soft, and mouldering, or melting away in water, or by weather; (for those be properties of the Bousin.)

Boussade: f. The rot, or plague, among sheepe. ¶Langued. Bousse: f. The bunch of a Cammels backe; or (generally) as Bosse. Boussin: m. A bit, cantill, mammocke, morsell. ¶Gasc. Boussole: f. A Pilots Dyall, Compasse, or Quadrant.

Boussu. as Bossu. Boust: m. A tombe, sepulchre, graue; a place wherein a dead bodie hath beene buried, or burned.

Boustargues. as Botargues. Bout: m. The end, head, point, top, or tip, the extreame, or vtmost, part (in the length) of a thing; hence, the chape of a scabberd; the head of an arrow, &c.  Les bouts des costez. Stitches in the sides.  Baston à deux bouts. A Quarter-staffe; or, a Lope-*staffe, wherewith Low-countrey men leape ditches.  Vne corde à trois bouts. A threefold rope.  Bout cy bout là. Bungarly, disorderedly, slouenly; here a peece, and there a patch.  À chaque bout de champ. Still, euermore, euerie where, in each place, at all times.  Du bout des levres seulement. Sleightly; nicely, daintily; from the teeth outward, onely with the tip, edge, or outside, of the lips.  Tout à bout. On euery side, at euery turning, euerie where.  Il est au bout de sa corde. He can doe no more, he can goe no further; he may put vp his pipes, goe shake his eares.  Ils sont au bout de la roye. They are at their wits end, at their last helpes; they haue spent their pouder; they haue no more to say.  Gaigner le haut bout. To take, or set himselfe in, the highest place of a table; also, (in contentions, or trials) to get the vpper hand, carry away the best prize, win the spurres.  Il ne peut au bout de l'an nouër les deux bouts de sa serviette ensemble. Hee liues very barely; hath nought but from hand to mouth; cannot spare a dogge a bone, at the yeares end.  Recerchons le bout de nostre fusée. Let vs returne to our matter.  Il ne regarde plus loing que le bout de son nez. He is a carelesse, idle, lazie, dull, improuident fellow.  Se tenir sur le bon bout. To stand vpon his good parts, behauior, or birth.  Se tenir sur le haut bout. To stand vpon his pantofles, or on high tearmes.  Au bout la borne: Pro. At length we shall resolue, or settle, vpon somewhat.  Au bout de l'aulne faut le drap: Prov. Seeke Aulne. Boutade: f. A starting; a suddaine, violent, and vnexpected passion, or stirring; also, as Boutée. Boutage. droict de boutage. A certaine dutie, or fee, exacted by the Lord of Breci (a member of Bourges) for the wine retayled within his iurisdiction.

Boutant: m. A Buttresse, or shore-post.

Boutant: m. ante: f. Thrusting, putting, forcing, pushing forward; also, budding, or putting forth.  Arc boutant. Looke Arc. Boutargues. as Botargues. Bouté: m. ée: f. Thrust, forced, pushed forward; also, budded, or put forth.

Boute-cul: m. A Monke, or Frier, thats but a nouice, or newly entred into Orders; called so by the common people.  Travailler en boute-cul. as Travailler en Bourdican; Looke Bourdican. Boutée: f. A put, push, thrust; a iert, brunt; shocke; violent attempt, vehement essay; also, a putting, spurting, sprouting, or budding, forth.  À boutées. as par boutées; also, by heaps, or troupes. Par boutées. By fits, or pushes; not all at once; eft-*soones, now and then.  Par plusieurs boutées. Many and sundry times one after another; by diuers efforts made one in the necke of the other.

Boute-feu: m. A Boutefeu; a wilfull, or voluntarie firer of houses; also, a firebrand of sedition, a kindler of strife and contention; one that loues to set, and see, men together by the eares.

Boutefoire. A certaine shitten yew-game.

Boute-hors: m. The play called, Thrust out the harlot; (wherein the weakest euer come to the worst.)  Bon boute-hors. A good wit, conceit, vnderstanding; or, a good vtterance, a ready tongue, a quicke deliuerie.

Bouteille: f. A bottle; also, a buble raised on the water, by a drop of raine, &c.  Il en est plus assotté qu'un coquin de sa bouteille. He is more fond of it then a beggar is of his dish.  Il m'a baillé le bouchon d'une bouteille. See Bouchon. Il s'enyvre de sa propre bouteille. He is too farre in loue with his owne good parts; or, he abuses them to his great shame, and confusion.  Terre loing de soy n'apporte que flascons & bouteilles: Pro. Grounds lying a farre off, breed nought but flaggons and bottles; (viz. extraordinarie expences.)

Bouteillerie: f. A cupboord, or table, to set bottles on; also, a cupboord, or house, to keepe bottles in.

Bouteillette: f. A small bottle, or buble.

Bouteillier: m. A butler; also, a bottleman, or yeoman of the bottles; also, a bottle-maker.  Grand bouteillier. The great Butler of France; an honourable Officer, but out of date, euer since Charles the seuenths time.

Bouteilliere: f. A Tympanie in, or swelling of, the lower part of the bellie, by reason of much water, or waterish humor, gathered together in it.

Boutement: m. A thrusting, putting, pushing forward.  Boutement des feu. A malicious firing of houses.

Bouter. To thrust, put, force, push, forward; also, to haue a strong breath (a faulconers tearme) also, to bud, or put forth, as a tree in the Spring; also, to roote, as a Swine.  Bouter cap à la mer. To cast about to sea-ward; a ship to make towards the maine.  Bouter de loo. To lay tacke aboord.  Bouter selle. To saddle; to clap a saddle on a horses backe.  Bouter au vent. To beare roomeward; or, to fill the sayles with wind.  Bouter vent devant. To goe too neere the wind.  Bouter vent en penne. To bring a ship vpon the Lee.  Bouter en la vie. To sayle directly into a port, or barred hauen.  Si boute tel feur telle vente. The thing is sold as it was bought, let goe as it came; or (more carelessely) no matter, tis well ynough, let be how't will, come on't what can.

Bouterolle: f. The chape of a sheath, or scabberd.