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Boute-selle. (The word for horsemen to prepare themselues) to horse.

Boute-vent des Alchymistes; a hole, or vent, in the top of their furnaces.

Bouteufle: f. A buble.

Bouteure: f. as Boutture. Bouticle. as Boutique; also, a well, or lepe, for fish. Bouticlier: m. A shop-keeper; or, he that looketh to a shop.

Boutiffle: f. A buble of water, &c.

Boutignan. The name of a kind of Oliue.

Boutilier. as Bouteillier. Boutine: f. The nauell.

Boutique: f. A shop. Courtant de boutique. A Prentice, or shop-boy. La grande boutique. The Law; or, the profession thereof; or the Hall (as ours at Westminster) wherein it is practised; (called so, belike, because many things may be had in it for money.) Madamoiselle de la boutique. Seeke Madamoiselle. Qui sçait l'art serre la boutique. A prouerbe taxing th' enuie, or squeamishnesse of cunning Artists, who, for the most part, conceale from the world their excellent gifts. Qui ne sçait l'art serre la boutique: Prov. (Imperatiuely) let him that hath no skill shut vp his shop; (so vnfit, and vnsafe a thing it is for a man to deale in a trade which he knoweth not;) or, as in Art. Qui tient boutique doit parler à chascun: Prov. Shopkeepers must be courteous; or, such as haue ware to sell must haue words at will.

Boutis: m. The rooting of a wild Bore; also, as Boutement. Boutoir: m. A Farriers Buttresse.

Bouton: m. A button; also, a bud of a Vine, &c; also, a locke of wooll. Bouton de feu. An actuall cautere beaded like a button. Boutons à queuë. Long buttons; such as are laid on clokes &c. Bouton de verolle. A pockie botch; or a high, and eminent pimple, bursting out in any part of a bodie infected with the pockes. Cautere à bouton. See Cautere. Serrer le bouton à. To restraine, keepe short, or beare a hard hand ouer.

Boutonné: m. ée: f. Buttoned; budded; cauterized; set thicke with pimples, or pockie botches.

Boutonnement: m. A buttoning; a budding; a cauterizing.

Boutonner. To bud, spring, or sprout out; also, to button, or claspe; also, to cauterize, or seare with an actuall cauter.

Boutonnerie: f. A buttoning, or clasping; also, a budding, or sprouting out; also, a cauterizing.

Boutonnet: m. Rupture-wort, Burstwort; (an hearbe.)

Boutonneur: m. A Buttoner; or an instrument wherewith buttons are pulled through their ouer-strait holes.

Boutonniere: f. A button-hole.

Boutouër: m. The snout of a wild Swine.

Bouts. A great bottle; or, as Oudre. (v.m.) Bouttice. An ashler, or binding stone (in building.)

Boutton. Looke Bouton. Boutture: f. The slip of an hearbe; the sprig of a plant; a budding, or putting out, in either.

Bouvaux. The name of a kind of figs.

Bouveau: m. A bullocke; a little Oxe, or Bull.

Bouvelt: m. A young Bull, or Bull-calfe.

Bouvi. qui sent le bouvi. Smelling like an Ox.

Bouvier: m. A Cow-heard, a Neat-heard; a keeper of Oxen.

Bouviere: f. A small, round, bright-coloured, little-mouthed, and toothlesse, fish, of the riuer Seine; seldome eaten, because very bitter.

Bouvillon. as Bouveau. Bouvine: f. All kind of Oxen; Neat, Oxen.

Bouyau. A bowell, gut, intestine; See Boyau. Bouys: m. The shrub, called Box. Bouys d'asne. Box-thorne, prickly Box, Asses-Box, thorne Box. Bouys espineux. The same. Bouys poignant. Kneebull, Kneeholme, Pettigree, butchers Broome.

Bouze. as Bouse; Cow-dung. Bouzine: f. A rusticall Trumpet, or wind-instrument, made of pitched barke.

Boyau: m. A bowell, gut; entrall, intestine. Boyau avallé. Bursting, or burstnesse; (the bowels being fallen downe into the cods.) Boyau culier, ou cuillier. The right gut, or arse-gut (one of the three principall guts.) Boyau gasté. The hurt of the draught gut (a disease among Oxen.) Gras boyau. as Boyau culier; In beasts called, the Inche-pinne, or Inne-pinne.) Le long boyau. The long gut; the third gut from the Ventricle; the thin, or small gut, wherein the Chylus waxing thicker, beginneth to rest; also, the name of a fertile plaine in the Isle of France. La Maison de Monsieur boyau. Said of a house thats slated before, and thatched behind. Il a vn aulne de boyaulx vuides pour festoyer ses parens. He hath a monstrous stomacke, a terrible appetite, a hungrie gut of his owne.

Boye: m. An Executioner, a Hangman.

Bozel: m. A thicke, or great boultell (commonly) in, or neere vnto, the Basis of a pillar.

Bozine: f. as Bouzine. Braailler. as Braire; to bray like an Asse. Braçal. See Brassal. Braçats: m. Brasses, or Vambrasses; armor for the armes.

Brace: f. A measure of fiue foot; or, as Brasse. Bracelet: m. A bracelet; also, the wrist of the arme. Bracelets. Short linkes, and buttons, set to either side of the vpset, or port, of a bitt; or, the watering chaine of a bitt.

Brachet: m. A kind of little hound.

Brachial: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, an arme.

Brachialement. With maine force of armes; with all the strength he hath.

Brachieux. as Brachial. Braconnier: m. A hunter.

Bracque. The name of a field neere Paris, wherein the schollers of the Vniuersitie vse to solace thēselues. ¶Rab. Bracqué. Looke Braqué. Bradypepsie: f. Slow concoction; or, a painfull, and but halfe disgestion, of meat.

Bragard: m. arde: f. Gay, gallant, flaūting; vain; also, pert, or dapper; also, braggard, bragging, braggadochio-like.

Bragardement. Gayly, gallantly, flauntingly; vainely; also, pertly; also, braggardly, braggingly, vauntingly.

Bragarder. To braue, or flaunt it; to weare gay attire, to goe gay; also, to brag, vaunt, swagger.

Bragardise: f. Brauerie, gaynesse, flaunting, proud vanitie; also, bragging, vaunting, swaggering.