vant.] A slave; a servant without the liberty of quitting his master. And if thy brother, that dwelleth by thee, be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant. Leviticus. BONDSERVICE. n. s. [from bond and service.] The condition of a bondservant; slavery. 1 Kings. Upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice. Bo'NDSLAVE. n. s. [from bond and slave.] A man in slavery; one of servile condition, who cannot change his master. Love enjoined such diligence, that no apprentice, no, no bond lave, could ever be, hy fear, more ready at all commands than that young princess was. Sidney. All her ornaments are taken away; of a freewoman she is become a bondslave. 1 Marc. Commonly the bonuslave is fed by his lord, but here the lord was fed by his bondslave. Sir J. Davies. BO'NDSMAN. n. s. [from bond and man.] 7. A slave. Carnal greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen and beasts. Derbam. 2. A person bound, or giving security, for another. BO'NDSWOMAN. n. s. [from bond and woman.] A woman slave. rwomen. My lords, the senators Are sold for slaves, and their wives for bondsBen Jonson's Catiline. BONE. n. s. [ban, Saxon.] 1. The solid part of the body of an animal. The bones are made up of hard fibres, tied one to another by small transverse fibres, as those of the muscles. In a fœtus they are porous, soft, and easily discerned. As their pores fill with a substance of their own nature, so they increase, harden, and grow close to one another. They are all spongy, and full of little cells; or are of a considerable firm thickness, with a large cavity, except the teeth; and where they are articulated, they are covered with a thin and strong membrane, called the periosteum. Each. bone is much bigger at its extremity than in the middle, that the articulations might be firm, and the bones not easily put out of joint. But, because the middle of the bone should be strong, to sustain its allotted weight, and resist accidents, the fibres are there more closely compacted together, supporting one another; and the bone is made hollow, and consequently not so easily broken as it must have been had it been solid and smaller. Quincy. Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. Macbeth. There was lately a young gentleman bit to the bone. Tatler. 2. A fragment of meat; a bone with as much flesh as adheres to it. 3. Like sop's hounds contending for the bone, Each pleaded right, and would be lord alone. Dryden. To be upon the bones. To attack. Puss had a month's mind to be upon the bones of him, but was not willing to pick a quarrel. L'Estrange. 4, To make no bones. To make no scruple: a metaphor taken from a dog, who readily swallows meat that has no bones. 5. Bones. A sort of bobbins, made of trotter bones, for weaving bonelace. 6. Bones. Dice. But then my study was to cog the dice, And dext'rously to throw the lucky sice: To shun ames ace, that swept my stakes away; And watch the box, for fear they should convey False bones, and put upon me in the play. Dryd. To BONE. v. a. [from the noun.Ĵ To take out the bones from the flesh; as, the cooks boned the veal. Bo'NETACE n. s. [from bone and lace; the bobbins with which lace is woven being frequently made of bones.] Flaxen lace, such as women wear on their linen. The things you follow, and make songs on now, should be sent to knit, or sit down to bobbins or bonelace. Tatler. We destroy the symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly contrive to call off the eye from great and real beauties, to childish gewgaw ribbands and bonclace. Bo'NELESS. adj. [from bone.] Wanting Spectator. bones. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluckt my nipple from his boneless gums, And dasht the brains out. To Bo'NESET. v. n. [from bone and set.] Shakspeare. To restore a bone out of joint to its place; or join a bone broken to the other part. A fractured leg set in the country by one pretending to bonesetting. Wiseman's Surgery. BO'NESETTER. n. s. [from boneset.] A chirurgeon; one who particularly professes the art of restoring broken or luxated bones. setter. At present my desire is to have a good boneDenbam. Bo'NFIRE. n. s. [from bon, good, Fr. and fire.] A fire made for some publick cause of triumph or exultation. Ring ye the bells to make it wear away, And bonfires make all day. Spenser How came so many bonfires to be made in queen Mary's days? Why, she had abused and deceived her people. South. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay. BO'NGRACE. n. s. [bonne grace, Fr.] A forehead-cloth, or covering for the forehead. Not used. Skinner. I have seen her beset all over with emeralds and pearls, ranged in rows about her cawl, her peruke, her bongrace, and chaplet. Hakervill. Bo'NNET. n. s. [bonnet, Fr.] A covering for the head; a hat; a cap. Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand, And thus far having stretch'd it, here be with them, Thy knee bussing the stones; for, in such business, Action is eloquence. Shakspeare's Coriolanus. They had not probably the ceremony of vailing the bonnet in their salutations; for, in medals, they still have it on their heads. Addison. BO'NNET. [In fortification.] A kind of little ravelin, without any ditch, having a parapet three feet high, anciently placed before the points of the saliant angles of the glacis. Bo'NNET à prestre, or priest's cap, is an outwork, having at the head three sali Bo'NNETS. [In the sea language.] Small ant angles, and two inwards. sails set on the courses on the mizzen, mainsail, and foresail of a ship, when BOO these are too narrow or shallow to clothe the mast, or in order to make more way Chambers. in calm weather. BO'NNILY. adv. [from bonny.] Gayly; handsomely; plumply. BO'NNINESS... [from bonny.] Gayety; handsomeness; plumpness. BONNY. adj. [from bon, bonne, Fr.] It is a word now almost confined to the Scottish dialect. 1. Handsome; beautiful. Match to match I have encountered him, Then sigh not so, but let them go, Shakspeare. 3. It seems to be generally used in con- We scorn, for want of talk, to jabber Of parties o'er our bonny-clabber; Who votes for manors, who for hire. Savift. BO'NUM MAGNUM. n. s. A species of plum. Bo'NY. adj. [from bone.] 1. Consisting of bones. At the end of this hole is a membrane, fastened to a round bony limb, and stretched like the head of a drum; and therefore, by anatomists, called tympanum. Ray. 2. Full of bones. But one exception to this fact we find; Young master next must rise to fill him wine, And starve himself to see the booby dine. King. BOOK. n. s. [boc, Sax. supposed from bor, a beech, because they wrote on beechen boards; as liber, in Latin, from the rind of a tree.] 1. A volume in which we read or write. Books are a sort of dumb teachers: they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts; this is properly the work of a living in Watts. The first book we divide into sections; whereof the first is these chapters past. Burnet's Theory. 3. The register in which a trader keeps an account of his debts. This life Is nobler than attending for a bauble; 4. In books. In kind remembrance. I was so much in his books, that, at his decease, he left me the lamp by which he used to write Addison. his lucubratiors. 5. Without book. By memory; by repetition; without reading. Sermons read they abhor in the church; but sermons without book, sermons which spend their life in their birth, and may have publick audience Hooker. but once. To Book. v. a. [from the noun.] To register in a book. I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or I will have it in a particular bailad else, with mine own picture on the Shakspeare. top of it. He made wilful murder high treason; he caused the marchers to book their men, for whom they Davies on Ireland. should make answer. BOOK-KEEPING. . s. [from book and keep.] The art of keeping accounts, or recording pecuniary transactions, in such a manner, that at any time a man may thereby know the true state of the whole, or any part of his affairs, with clearness and expedition. Harris. Bo'OKBINDER. n. s. [from book and bind.] A man whose profession it is to cover books. Bo'оKFUL. adj. [from book and full.] Full of notions gleaned from books; crowded with undigested knowledge. Given to The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. Pope. BOOKISH. adj. [from book.] books; acquainted only with books. It is generally used contemptuously. I'll make him yield the crown, Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down. Shakspeare. I'm not beskish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. Shaksp. Winter's Tale. Xantippe follows her namesake; being married to a bookib man, who has no knowledge of the Spectator. world. Bo'OKISHNESS. n. s. [from bookish.] Much application to books; over-studi ousness. BOOKLEARNED. adj. [from book and learned.] Versed in books, or literature: a term implying some slight contempt. Whate'er these booklearn'd blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden. He will quote passages out of Plato and Pindar, at his own table, to some booklearned companion, Swift. without blushing. BOOKLEARNING. n. s. [from book and learning.] Skill in literature; acquaint ance with books: a term of some contempt. They might talk of booklearning what they -- would, but he never saw more unfeaty fellows than great clerks. Sidney. Neither does it so much require booklearning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false, and to discern what is well proved, and what is not. Burnet's Theory. BOOKMAN. n. s. [from book and man.] A man whose profession is the study of books. This civil war of wits were much better us'd On Navarre and his bookmen; for here 't is abus'd. Shakspeare. Bo'oKMATE. n. s. [from book and mate.] Schoolfellow. This Armado is a Spaniard that keeps here in court, Aphantasm, a monarch, and one that makes sport To the prince and his bookmates. Shakspeare. BOOKSELLER. n. s. [from book and sell.] He whose profession it is to sell books. He went to the bookseller, and told him in anger, he had sold a book in which there was false divinity. Walton. Bo'OKWORM. n. s. [from book and worm.] 1. A worm or mite that eats holes in books, chiefly when damp. My lion, like a moth or bookworm, feeds upon nothing but paper, and I shall beg of them to diet him with wholesome and substantial food. Guard. 2. A student too closely given to books; a reader without judgment. Among those venerable galleries and solitary scenes of the university, I wanted but a black gown, and a salary, to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope's Letters. Bo'oLY. n. s. [An Irish term.] All the Tartarians, and the people about the Caspian Sea, which are naturally Scythians, live in hordes; being the very same that the Irish boolies are, driving their cattle with them, and feeding only on their milk and white meats. Spenser. BOOM. n. s. [from boom, a tree, Dutch.] 1. [In sea language.] A long pole used to spread out the clue of the studding sail; and sometimes the clues of the mainsail and foresail are boomed out. 2. A pole with bushes or baskets, set up as a mark to show the sailors how to steer in the channel, when a country is overflown. Sea Dictionary. 3. A bar of wood laid across a harbour, to keep off the enemy. As his heroic worth struck envy dumb, Who took the Dutchman and who cut the boom. Dryden. To Booм. v. n. [from the noun. A sea term.] 1. To rush with violence; as a ship is said to come booming, when she makes all the sail she can. 2. To swell and fall together. Booming o'er his head Dict. The billows clos'd; he's number'd with the dead. Young. Forsook by thee, in vain I sought thy aid, When booming billows clos'd above my head. Pope. BOON. n. s. [from bene, Sax. a petition.] A gift; a grant; a benefaction; a pre sent. Vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look: A smaller boon than this I cannot beg, And less than this, I'm sure, you cannot give. Shakspeart. That courtier, who obtained a boon of the em peror, that he might every morning whisper him in the ear, and say nothing, asked no unprofitable suit for himself. Bacon. The blust'ring fool has satisfy'd his will; His boon is given; his knight has gain'd the day, But lost the prize. Dryden's Fables. What rhetorick didst thou use BooN. adj. [bon, Fr.] Gay; merry: as, To gain this mighty boon? she pities me! Addis. a boon companion. Satiate at length, And heighten'd as with wine, jocund and been, Thus to herself she pleasingly began. Par. Lost. I know the infirmity of our family; we play the boon companion, and throw our money away in our cups. Arbuthnot. BOOR. n. s. [beer, Dutch; gebure, Sax.] A ploughman; a country fellow; alout; a clown. The bare sense of a calamity is called grumbling; and if a man does but make a face upon the boor, he is presently a malecontent. L'Estrange. He may live as well as a boor of Holland, whose cares of growing still richer waste his life. Temple. To one well-born, th' affront is worse and more, When he's abus'd and baffled by a boor. Dryden. Bo'ORISH. adj. [from boor.] Clownish; rustick; untaught; uncivilized. Therefore, you clown, abandon, which is, in the vulgar, leave, the society, which, in the boorish, is company, of this female. Shakspeare. Bo'ORISHLY. adj. [from boorish.] In a boorish manner; after a clownish man My gravity Wherein, let no man hear me, I take pride, Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose Shakspeare. Herbert. He might have his mind and manners formed, and be instructed to boot in several sciences. Locke. 3. It seems, in the following lines, used for booty, or plunder. Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make best upon the summer's velvet buds. Shaks. BOOT. n. s. [bottas, Armorick; botes, a shoe, Welsh; botte, French.] 1. A covering for the leg, used by horse that night; Pull'd off his boots, and took away the light. Milt. Bishop Wilkins says, he does not question but it will be as usual for a man to call for his wings, when he is going a journey, as it is now to call Addison's Guardian. for his boots. 2. A kind of rack for the leg, formerly used in Scotland for torturing criminals. BOOT of a coach. The space between the coachman and the coach. To Boor. v. a. [from the noun.] To put on boots. Boot, boot, master Shallow; I know the young king is sick for me: let us take any man's horses. Shakspeare. BOOT-HOSE. n. s. [from boot and hose.] Stockings to serve for boots; spatterdashes. His lacquey with a linen stock on one leg, and a boot-bose on the other, gartered with a red Shakspeare. and blue list. BOOT-TREE. n. s. [from boot and tree.] Two pieces of wood, shaped like a leg, to be driven into boots, for stretching and widening them. Bo'OTCATCHER. n. s. [from boot and catch.] The person whose business at an inn is to pull off the boots of passengers. The ostler and the bootcatcher ought to par- A booted judge shall sit to try his cause, The clothiers found means to have all the quest made of the northern men, such as had their booths in the fair. Camden. Swift. Much mischief will be done at Bartholomew fair by the fall of a booth. Bo'OTLESS. adj. [from boot.] 1. Useless; unprofitable; unavailing ; without advantage. When those accursed messengers of hell God did not suffer him, being desirous of the Bootless speed, When cowardice pursues, and valour flies. Shak. I'll follow him no more with bootless pray'rs: 2. Without success. Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? Shakspeare. And sandy bottom'd Severn, have I sent One way a band select from forage drives His conscience is the hue and cry that pursues 3. If I had a mind to be honest, I see fortune would not suffer me; she drops booties in my mouth. Shakspeare. To play booty. To play dishonestly, with an intent to lose. The French use, Je suis botté, when they mean to say, I will not go. We understand what we ought to do; but when we deliberate, we play booty against ourselves: our consciences direct us one way, our L'Estrange. corruptions hurry us another. I have set this argument in the best light, that BOPE'EP. n. s. [from bo and peep.] The Then they for sudden joy did weep, And I for sorrow sung, Shakspeare. That serve instead of peaceful barriers, Hudibras. There devil plays at bopeep, puts out his horns BORACHIO. n. s. [borracho, Span.] A How you stink of wine! D'ye think my Miller. BOʻRAGE. n. s. [from borago, Lat.] A Much wonder is made of the boramex, that juice upon breaking, and liveth while the plants be consumed about it. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. BO'RAX. n. s. [borax, low Latin.] An artificial salt, prepared from sal ammoniac, nitre, calcined tartar, sea salt, and alum, dissolved in wine. It is principally used to solder metals, and sometimes an uterine ingredient in medicine. Quincy. BO'RDEL. n. s. [bordeel, Teut. bordel, BORDE'LLO. Armorick.] A brothel ; a bawdy-house. From the bordello it might come as well, The spital, or picthatch. Ben Jonson. Making even his own house a stew, a bordel, and a school of lewdness, to instii vice into the unwary years of his poor children. BORDER. n. s. [bord, Germ. bord, Fr.] 1. The outer part or edge of any thing. South. They have looking-glasses bordered with broad borders of crystal, and great counterfeit precious Bacon. stones. The light must strike on the middle, and extend its greatest clearness on the principal figures; diminishing by degrees, as it comes nearer and nearer to the borders. Dryden. 2. The mirch or edge of a country; the confine. If a prince keep his residence on the border of his dominions, the remote parts will rebel; but if he make the centre his seat, he shall easily keep them in obedience. Spenser. 3. The outer part of a garment, generally adorned with needlework, or ornaments. 4. A bank raised round a garden, and set with flowers; a narrow rank of herbs or flowers. There he arriving, round about doth fly From bed to bed, from one to other border; And takes survey, with curious busy eye, Of every flower and herb there set in order. Spenser. All with a border of rich fruit-trees crown'd, Whose loaded branches hide the lofty mound: Such various ways the spacious alleys lead, My doubtful muse knows not what path to tread. Waller. To BO'RDER. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To confine upon; to touch something else at the side or edge: with upon. It bordereth upon the province of Croatia, which, in time past, had continual wars with the Turks garrisons. Knolles. Virtue and honour had their temples bordering on each other, and are sometimes both on the ⚫ same coin. 2. To approach nearly to. Addison. All wit which borders upon profaneness, and makes bold with those things to which the greatest reverence is due, deserves to be branded with folly. Tillotson. To BO'RDER, v. a. 1. To adorn with a border of ornaments. 2. To reach; to touch; to confine upon; to be contiguous to. Sheba and Raamah are those parts of Arabia, which border the sea called the Persian gulf. Raleigh. BO'RDERER. n. s. [from border.] He that dwells on the borders, extreme parts, or confines; he that dwells next to any place. They of those marches, gracious sovereign! Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Shaksp、 2. To hollow. Take the barrel of a long gun, perfectly bored, and set it upright, and take a bullet exactly t for it; and then, if you suck at the mouth of the barrel never so gently, the bullet will come up so forcibly, that it will hazard the striking out your teeth. Digby. 3. To make by piercing. These diminutive caterpillars are able, by degrees, to pierce or bore their way into a tree, with very small holes; which, after they are fully entered, grow together. 4. To pierce; to break through. Ray, Consider, reader, what fatigues I've known, What riots seen, what bustling crowds I bar'd, How oft I cross'd where carts and coaches roar'd Goy To BORE. v. n. A man may make an instrument to bore a hole an inch wide, or half an inch, not to bore a hole of a foot. Wilkins. 2. To push forward toward a certain point. Those milk paps, That through the window bars bore at men's eyes, Are not within the leaf of pity writ. Shakspeare. Nor southward to the raining regions run; But boring to the west, and hov'ring there, With gaping mouths they draw prolifick air. Dryde To BORE. v. n. [with farriers.] Is when a horse carries his nose near the ground. BORE. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. The hole made by boring. Into hollow regions long and round, Thick ramm'd, at th other bore with touch of fire Dilated, and infuriate. Dict Milton |