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Bourriquet: m. A kind of tombrell, or dung-cart; also, such a title for an Asse as Iade is for a horse; and hence; Harry bourriquet. Words wherewith the Millers, &c. in France driue forward their Asses.

Bourroche: f. Bourrage.

Bourru: m. uë: f. Flockie, hairie, rugged, high-napped. Vin bourru. New sweet wine; such as is not yet setled after vintage; or, new, thicke, vnfined (white) wine.

Bourry. Moyne bourry. as Moyne beur. Bours de chevres. Stables, or pennes, for goats.

Boursal: m. A younger brother.

Boursal: m. ale: f. Of a younger brother; whence; Fief boursal. The inheritance, or portion of inheritance, belonging to a younger brother.

Boursalement. Tenir b. By the title of youngership; different from that of the elder brother, who is to do homage vnto the Lord for the whole inheritance.

Boursavit: m. A prick-purse, or purse for a pricke; also, a kind of big leatherne purse, worne by many right before their codpeeces.

Boursaul: m. The Cane Withie, or, Cane Willow.

Boursaut: m. A little purse.

Boursaux: m. Younger brethren.

Bourse: f. A purse; also, a bag, satchell, pouche; also, a case; any thing made of leather to put, or keepe tooles, or other implements in; also, a ballocke, or, the outward skin wherein the cod is contained; also, a purse-net; also, the place of a Pentioner in a Colledge (we call it a Schollership, or Fellowship;) or in the Chancerie, or Exchequer; also, the Pension it selfe; so tearmed, because it is commonly deliuered in a Purse vnto the partie that hath it.
  Bourse de berger. Shepheards purse, poore mans Parmacetie, Toyworte, Pickpurse, Cooseweed.
  Bourse Coustumiere. A yeoman, or customarie tenant; or, a purchase made by a yeoman, or customarie tenant.
  Bourse de Curé. as Bourse de berger.
  Bourse defliée. Readie money; or, money disbursed, or payed downe for a thing.
  Bourse de Pasteur. as Bourse de berger.
  Clameur de bourse. An action brought for the recouerie of an aliened inheritance. ¶Norm.
  Demarche de bourse. The same.
  Rouge bourse. A Robin red breast; (called so in Savoy.)
  Elle a la langue en la bouche, non en la bourse. (Said of a tatling huswife, whose Clicket is euer wagging) she is not tongue-tied, I warrant you.
  Faire bourse à part. To keepe house, or make a house-*hold, apart, and without any communitie of goods, or of estate with others.
  Tous les prisonniers s'en sont fuys de sa bourse. Looke Prisonnier.
  Venir entre la bourse & les deniers. To preuent, forestall, come betweene and home. Seeke Venir.
  Abbé & convent ce n'est qu'un; mais la bourse est en divers lieux: Pro. Looke Abbé.
  Belle hostesse c'est un mal pour la bourse: Pro. A faire hostesse brings in a foule reckoning.
  Le petit gain emplit la bourse: Prov. Wee say, light gaines make heauie purses.
  Qui bien gaigne, & bien despend, ne luy faut bourse à mettre argent: Pro. He needs no purse, that spends, as well as gets, much; or, that spends as much as hee gets.

  Qui n'a argent en bourse ait du moins du miel en bouche: Pro. Looke Argent. Selon ta bourse gouverne ta bouche: Prov. Measure thy appetite by thy abilitie.

Boursé: m. ée: f. Pursed, impursed; inclosed, or shut vp, as in a purse; bulching, or bearing out, as a full purse; bunted.

Bourseau. A little blister, bumpe, or swelling, such as rises of a knocke, or after nettling.

Bourselle: f. A Mariners Compas, or Dyall.

Bourser. To purse, impurse; inclose, or shut vp, as in a purse; also, to gather, make bulch, or beare out, as a (full) purse; to bunt, or leaue a bunt in a sayle.

Bourseron. A little purse; bag, pouche.

Bourset de devant. The fore-sayle. Bourset de hune. The top-sayle of a ship.

Bourseteux: m. euse: f. Purse-like; belonging to a purse; full of purses.

Boursette: f. A little purse. Boursettes de la semence. The seed vessels; as Parastates. Ietter la boursette. A hauke, taken out of the Mue, to be fully cleansed, and purged before she be flowne.

Bourseux. as Bourseteux. Boursicouter. To make a purse, gathering, or collection.

Boursier: m. A Pentioner; or, one that hath an yearely Pension in a Colledge; or out of the fees comming in by a Court of Iustice; (and such are the Kings Secretaries, and Clerkes of the Chancerie, whose intertainment is payed them out of the profit made by the Great Seale.)

Boursiller. To contribute euery one his pennie; to make a purse, or lay their monyes together, as Mummers, &c, vse to doe; also, to put his hand into his purse, or take somewhat out of his purse.

Boursillon: m. A little purse.

Boursin. A certaine little rope that serues to fetch in the sprit-sayle.

Bourson: m. A little purse; case; bag.

Boursoufflade: f. Windie pride, idle vanitie.

Boursoufflé: m. ée: f. Swolne, puffed, or blowne vp, as with wind.

Boursouffler. To swell with wind, to puffe, or blow, vp.

Boursouffleure: f. A swelling of the guts, or of any other part, by windinesse; any swelling, puffing, or blowing vp.

Bousant: m. A Buzzard, or bauld kyte. ¶Savoyard. Bousat. as Bousant. Bouschement: m. A stopping, estoppell, obstruction.

Bouscher. To stop, obstruct, shut vp; also, to hoodwinke. Les fruicts se bouschent. Said when the blossomes of a tree are closed (or nipped) by cold, so that no fruit comes of them.

Bouscheron. A bill-man; also, a faggot-maker.

Bouschon: m. A stopple; See Bouchon. Bouse de vache: f. The dung of a Cow; a Cow-turd, or Cow-shard.

Bousée: f. The same.

Bouset. petit bouset. A little odious fellow; a paltrie crop of a Cow-turd.

Bousfler. To puffe vp, or blow wind into.

Bousille: f. (perhaps as Bousin) daubing, or stuffe to daube with.

Bousiller: m. A dauber.

Bousiller. To daube; also, to būgle, or slubber a thing ouer.

Bousin: m. A soft, and mouldering, substance, that cleaues to the outside of free-stone, in Quarries; and is vsually taken, or pilled, from the stone before it be wrought.