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and particularly, the turneouer, or side betweene the sole and vpper-leather of a corke shooe.

Borée. The North-east wind.

Borgne: com. One eyed, or, that hath but one eye. Vne chambre borgne. That hath but one window, and is thereby with the darkest. Esguillette borgne. A point that hath but one tag. Intestin borgne. The blind gut; the first of the three great guts in the belly, seated on the right side, a little vnder the kidney; and so full of turnings, & foulds, that it seemes endlesse. Veine borgne. Looke Veine. Ie le vous envoyeray par le borgne. I will send it by Iohn Long the Carrier; you shall haue it when I know not what else to do with it. Vn borgne est Roy au païs des aveugles: Prov. He that sees but little ouerrules them that see nothing.

Borgner. To winke with one eye, and looke with another; as those, that would discerne a thing through a narrow hole; or, as Borgnoyer. Borgnesse: f. A woman that hath but one eye. Esguillette borgnesse. as Esguillette borgne. Borgnet: m. ette: f. Halfe blind; almost blind, or hauing wellnigh lost the vse of one eye.

Borgnoyer. To want an eye; to looke, or see but with one eye; to winke with, or faine himselfe blind of, one eye; also, to glow, glote, or loure.

Borgue. as Nasse; A weele, for fish. Borlet. See Bourlet. Bornage: m. The bounds, or limits, of; whence; Bornage de Hercules. The straits of Giblaltarre. Droict de bornage. The royaltie, or priuiledge of placing meeres, appointing limits, laying out bounds for other mens lands.

Bornal de miel: m. A hony combe.

Borne: f. A bound, limit, meere, march; the end, or furthest compasse of a thing. Mais là ne faut faire but ne borne. But there wee must not stop, nor pause; thats no place to settle in, stay at, or dwell on. Au bout la borne: Prov. Th' end tryes all; at length we shall see what will be done.

Borné: m. ée: f. Bounded, limited; apportioned; proportioned; stinted; whose part or portion is appointed him.

Borner. To limit, bound, assigne marches, appoint meeres vnto; to apportion; stint, proportion; to sort out a part for; to allot, or lay out a certaine portion, or proportion, which is not to be exceeded.

Borneur: m. A limiter, bounder; apportioner; stinter, proportioner.

Bornion à miel. A honie combe; or, beesnest full of honie.

Borrache. A Spanish borachoe, or bottle of leather.

Borrais, ou Borras: m. Borax, or greene earth; a hard and shining minerall, or humor congealed in mynes; There is also an artificiall one, made of Roche Allum, Armoniac, and other things; both vsed by Goldsmiths.
  Borras blanc. White Borax; found (as Mathiolus thinks) in siluer mynes.
  Borras iaulne. Yellow Borax, found in gold mynes, and fittest for Goldsmithes.
  Borras noir. Blacke (and the worst) Borax; found, most commonly, in leaden mines.
  Borras Pierreux. Vnrefined Borax, as it comes out of the rocke, or mine.
  Borras verd. Greene Borax; the best, and most medicinable kind thereof; found (especially that which is

of a darke greene colour) in brasse mynes.

Borrasque. as Bourasque. Borret: m. A yearing, or young beast thats about a yeare old: ¶Auvergnois. Borrette: f. A heyfer, or fillie, thats about a yeare old.

Borriere. vache borriere. A cow that hath a calfe running after her.

Borrugat. The sea fish called otherwise, Maigre, ¶Baïonnois. Bortiere: f. (Corruptly, for Portiere) the female Salmon, greater, and fuller of red spots than the male, and hauing the end of her nether iaw hooked, or bending vpwards, whereas his is straight.

Bos. as Bois: ¶Pic. Bosc. The name of a drie sower apple; also, as Bois: ¶Pic. Boscage. as Bocage. Boscal. A little wood, or forest.

Bosialle. champ b. A peece of ground, or common (without any house vpon it) wherein diuers haue certaine, and seuerall parts.

Bosne: f. as Borne. Bosné. Bounded, limited.

Bosquet: m. A thicket, groue, or little wood.

Bosquillon: m. A wood-feller, billet-maker, hedge-mender; a labouring man that fells wood, makes billets, &c, and mends, or lookes vnto, the hedges, or inclosures of a wood.

Bossé d'une rouë. The naue of a wheele. Seeke Moyeu. Bosse: f. A bunch, or bumpe; any round swelling, vprising, or puffing vp; hence, a wen, botch, bile, or plague-*sore; also, a hulch in the backe; also, a knob, knot, or knurre in a tree; also, a hillocke, molehill, small hill, or barrow of ground; also, a bosse, or imbossing in workemanship; also, the first putting out of a deeres head formerly cast; which our wood-men call, if it bee a red deeres, the burle, or seale, and, if a fallow deeres, the button; (the which is also applied vnto the other.) Bosse de terre. as Truffe. Sot en bosse, & platte peinture. A foole in print, asse in graine, compleat coxcombe, absolute hoydon. La male bosse. A plague-sore, pestilent botch, contagious bile. Desrobber la bosse à S. Roc. To filtch, or steale any thing (how meane soeuer) that comes in his way.

Bossé: m. ée: f. Swollen, risen, bunchie, hulched, puffed vp; knobbie, bulked, or bumped out.

Bosseler. To dindge, or bruise, to make a dint in vessell of mettall, or in a peece of plate.

Bosselure: f. A bruise, dindge, or dint, in a peece of plate, or mettall.

Bossetier: m. A bosse-maker; a stud-maker.

Bossette: f. A little bunch, or knob; also, a little heape, rising, or swelling of earth; also, a bosse, or bullion set on a booke; also, a stud on any part of a horses furniture.

Bossis: m. High grounds; or, little hills raised by the hands of men.

Bossu: m. uë: f. Hulch backt, crump-shouldered; knobbie, knappie; swelling, puffed vp, rising vneuenly, crookedly, vnhandsomely. Mesnage bossu. A disordered family wherein all is confounded, or awry. De nouveau Medecin cimitiere bossu: Prov. A new Physitian breeds a fat churchyard. Veau mal cuit, & poulets cruds font les cimitieres bossus: Prov. Raw veale, and chickens fill churchyards.

Bossuër. To make hulch, crumpe, or crooked; to swell, or