An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 99
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 99
BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.
_Complaynt S._
Sw. _bog-lina_, id. from _bog_, flexus.
BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, _adj._ Ready, prepared, S.
_Barbour._
_Bone_ is used in the same sense, O. E.
Su. G. _bo_, _bo-a_, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. _bu-a_, id.
_Boen_ or _boin_ is the part. pa.
_To_ BOUN, BOWN, _v. a._
1. To make ready, to prepare.
_Wallace._
2. To go, to direct ones course to a certain place.
_Sir Egeir._
BOUND, BUND, _part. pa._ Pregnant.
_Douglas._
_To_ BOUNT, _v. n._ To spring, to bound.
Fr. _bond-ir_, id.
_Burel._
BOUNTe, _s._ Worth, goodness.
_Barbour._
Fr. _bonte_, id.
BOUNTETH, BOUNt.i.tH, _s._
1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices.
_Watsons Coll._
2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.
BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a _bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_, habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young ladys bower. Hence _bour-bourding_, jesting in a ladys chamber, Pink.
BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._
1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S.
_Kelly._
"Well never big sandy _bowrocks_ together."
_S. Prov. Kelly._
2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quant.i.ty of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.
_Statist. Acc._
4. A cl.u.s.ter, as of trees, S.
_Ferguson._
A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.
~Burrachd~, ~Bourachd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.
_Ross._
BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cows hinder legs at milking, S.