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84 , ; helgi and helgr, , holiness; inviolability; day or time which must be kept holy. In 2, mainly denotes stock of cattle, in which sense bú also is found (bú 6. Fr.); see *$2$.

buk [buk],, trunk of the body, in contrast to the limbs; he has baid [‘both’] b. and, der’r b. and ben in him, he is both stout and vigorous ;  “búkur og bein’’, with reference to the flesh and frame of a body. búkr, , abdomen; body; trunk; bouk, buik,, trunk of the body ( in contrast to the limbs).

bukk [bo‘k, bok],, 1) sheep, a ram with 3 or 4 horns; also [bɔ‘k]; (bukk, bokk); (bukk). 2) scarecrow; bugbear with horns, “horn-”;  bukkr, bokkr,, billy-goat; “bukk” also used of a ram (saud-bukk).

bukkiblindi [bok·iblɩn·di],, blind-man’s buff; to play b. blindebukk, blindebuk. In the two parts of the are transposed.

buks, boks [boks, bɔks],, clumsy jump (jumps); tramping steps; to mak’ a b., to tramp clumsily (really to make a clumsy jump). byks(e),, a jump; spring, and ,

buks [boks] and boks [bɔks], , to jump in a clumsy manner; to plunge; tramp with clumsy, jumping steps; he (bokst) in a hole, he plunged into a hole; to b. trough gutter, trough a mire, to plunge through a morass. [boks (bɔks)]. [bɔks]. — “knee-”, to k.-b. a body, (during a wrestling-match) to keep a vanquished man down by placing one’s knee on his abdomen. — byxa,, to jump; to walk or run with jumping, swinging movements; byksa.

buksteros, -ous [bok··stərȯs·], , pushing; obtrusive; a b. body, one who pushes himself forward too much. of - (see, and ), which again is a of *buk, *bok (*bauk);   bykja, , to push or force one’s way, = boka, buka, bauka.

bul$n$, and, see.

bul$n$,, see $n$,

or breed of cattle; and in a disparaging sense of people: family, breed. *bú-(lag or)slag. The first part of the compd. is bú, , domicile, also stock of cattle. The second part might poss. be lag, , placing; position; mode; species, , in also = brood, but is more probably slag,, kind; sort , with dropped initial s in, the more so as “buslag”, , is found in Aasen in the same sense as the word (breed of cattle; jokingly of relations, family). For sporadic dropping of initial s in, see , , and N.Spr. p. 55.
 * bulag [bū·lāg·],, special kind

bulbend,, see.

bulder [boldər] and bolder [bȯldər], , 1) a rumble; noise. 2) bubbling; seething; a sound of something boiling. 3) quick, unintelligible speech. bulder, buller,, rumble; bubbling;  bulder, rumble. 4) a bulder o’ stens, a heap of stones. With the latter bulder,, sense 4.

bulder [boldər] and bolder [bȯldər], , 1) to rumble; make a noise. 2) to bubble; seethe. 3) to speak quickly and unintelligibly, to b. Dutch. 4) to pile up anything large in a quick and careless way, a peat-stack consisting of big peats; to b. a ting (a peat-stack) op; [bȯldər]. buldra,, to rumble; bubble; buldre, to rumble.

buleg [būləg],, overeating; an excessive meal; he took a b. Doubtless to be classed with bula,, to fill; stuff; pack.