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Blondoré: m. ée: f. Of a golden yellow.

Blondoyement: m. A making, or becomming light yellow.

Blondoyer. as Blondir. Blondurel. The Blaundrell apple.

Bloquaille. as Blocaille. Bloquer. To shut in, or block vp; to besiege, beset, or compasse on all sides; also, to conclude, or make vp a bargaine.

Bloquil. as Blocul (in the first sence.)

Blosse. poire blosse. An ouer mellow peare; a peare so soft as it is readie to rot.

Blot. as Bloc. Bloti: m. ie: f. Squat, skowked, hidden; lying, or kept close.

Blotir. To squat, skowke, or lye close to the ground, like a daring Larke, or affrighted fowle; also, to hide, or keepe, close.

Blotte. as Bloutre. Blotter. To blot, staine, blemish, defile.

Bloty: m. ye: f. Squat; laid close; kept close.

Blouquette. See Bouclette. Blouse: f. A close Tennis court, or a Tennis court in a hall, hauing a house on either side to serue on; so called at Orleans. Bloutre: f. A clod, or clot of earth.

Bloutré: m. ée: f. Cloddie; full of clods.

Bloutroer: m. A Rowler; the round woodden instrument wherewith allyes are smoothed; walkes planed; and clods broken.

Bloutroir. as Bloutroer. Bluard: m. arde: f. Gray, skie coloured, blewish.

Bluet: m. Blew-blaw, Blew-bottle, Corne-flower, Hurt-*sickle.

Bluette: f. A little streake, or sparke of heat, in the aire, when the season is verie hot; and, more generally, any sparke, or sparkle of a flame.

Bluetter. To sparke, or sparkle; to cast out, or yeeld forth sparkes, or sparkles.

Blute. as Bluet. Bluté: m. ée: f. Boulted, also, tossed, or swungd vp & downe.

Bluteau: m. A boulting cloth.

Bluter. To boult meale; also, to swing vp and downe, as a Baker doth his boulting cloth.

Bluterie: f. A boulting tub; also, a boulting.

Bluteur. A boulter of meale. À bon bluteur May propice: Prov. A wooer speeds (oft times) the better for his weapon.

Bluttage: m. A boulting of meale, &c.

Bluttement: m. A boulting; also, a swinging vp and downe.

Blutté. as Bluté. Blutteau. as Bluteau. Blutter. as Bluter; To boult, &c.

Blutteur. A boulter of meale; Seeke Bluteur. Bluttis. A boulting tub; or a roome to boult meale in.

Bluttoir: m. The same.

Bo. as Bois; Wood: ¶Pic. Boage: f. A place in Abbies, &c, full of drawers, wherin they lay vp Copes, &c.

Bobance: f. Riot, luxurie, vnthriftnesse, excessiue spending, immoderate expence; (and because that humour is commonly accompanied with pride, it signifies) also, insolencie, surquedrie, proud or presumptuous boasting.

Bobancer. To Riot, squander, wast, outlash; also, to boast.

Bobancier: m. An vnthrift, riotous waster, superfluous

spender, immoderate stroy-good, luxurious or excessiue squanderer; (And because such a one is, common-*monly, proud of his (as he presumes) liberalitie, it signifies) also, a proud, saucie, boasting, or insolent, asse.

Bobans: m. Riot, luxurie, wasting, vnthriftinesse, excessiue spending, superfluous, or immoderat expence; or as Bobance. Bobelin: m. A patch, botch, peece, set on a shooe, or garment.

Bobeline: f. An old patched shooe, or garment.

Bobeliner. To cobble, patch, botch, or mend an olde thing.

Bobelineur: m. A cobler, botcher, patcher, mender of old things.

Bobine: f. A quill for a spinning wheele; also, a skaine, or hanke of gold, or siluer thread.

Bobulaire: com. Big, huge, vnweldie like an Oxe.

Bobulaires: f. Toyes, trash; dotings, doltish things.

Bocage: m. A groue, thicket, or small wood; a place thats stored, or set thicke with trees; whence; Païs de bocage. A wood-land countrey.

Bocager: m. ere: f. Grouie, wooddie; of, or belonging to groues, thickets, woods; also, frequenting, or affecting thickets, groues, or woods.

Bocageux; as Bocager; Or, full of thickets, groues, or woods. Bocagier: m. ere: f. Wooddie, grouie; &c; as Bocager. Bocal: m. A Viol; or any such (big-bellied, long-necked, and small-mouthed) vessell, of earth, or (the more properly) of glasse; for water, wine, &c.

Boccabrevé: f. The name of a certaine apple.

Boccaner. as Boucaner. Boccasin: m. Boccasin; or, a kind of fine buckeram, that hath a resemblance of taffata, and is much vsed for lining; also, the stuffe Callimanco.

Boce. Looke Bosse. Bochasse. A wild Chestnut.

Bocie: f. A lymbecke, or stillitorie.

Boclus. Looke Bouclus. Bocon. as Boucon. Bocque: f. A kind of great-eyed Cackerell fish, the which hath on her back many golden, and siluer-hued streaks running along from her neck to her taile; also, a floud-*gate, or sluce.

Bocquer. To butte, or iurre.

Bocquet: m. A groue, or thicket; a little wood.

Bode: m. A young Bull.

Boësseau: m. as Boisseau. Boësselet. as Boisselet. A little bushell.

Boëte; & Boëtte; Looke Boiste; also, small, or household wine. Boëtouyer. To limpe, hault, be lame.

Boëttelette: f. A little box.

Boeuf: m. An Ox; a Beefe; also, beefe.
  Boeuf bran, ou brane. A kind of wild Oxe in Prouence, and Langued. vnreclaimable, and onely good for the shambles.
  Boeuf de dieu. A Wren.
  Boeuf de mer. The Seale, or Sea-calfe; also, a sea monster that resembles an Oxe.
  Langue de boeuf. The lesse, and roughor, kind of Buglosse, called Oxe-tongue, and Lang-de beef.
  Mort aux boeufs. A certaine hearbe whereof if an Oxe do eat he dies immediately of the squinsie; and therefore we may call it Oxebane.
  Mouche aux boeufs. A brizze, gadbee, Oxe flie.
  Oeil de boeuf. An out-strouting, or great-goggle eye; also, the hearbe Oxe-eye; also, the hearbe called foolish