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there bee diuers kinds; as, Alkanet, or Orkanet; and stone Buglosse; and Snakes Buglosse, Vipers Buglosse, or wall Buglosse.

Bugnets. as Bignets. Bugrande; ou, Bugrane: f. Rest-harrow, Cammocke, pettie whinne, ground Furze.

Bugrate. as Bugrande. Bugrunde. The same.

Buie: f. A water-pot, or pitcher.

Buire: f. An oyle glasse, violl, or cruze.

Buirette: f. A cruet, or little violl.

Buisart: m. A Buzzard, or Bald-kite.

Buisine: f. A little pipe; a conduit pipe; a water pipe.

Buissart. as Buisart; Also, the vessell called (otherwise) Poinson; Looke Poinson. Buissine: f. as Buisine. Buisson: m. A bush; thorne, brier; also, a groue, couert, thicket, bushie ground. Buisson à connils. A (priuat) warren for conies, neere vnto, and for the prouision of, a mans house. Meure de buisson. A blacke-berrie, or bramble berrie. Rose de buisson. The dogges Rose, wild Rose, bryer Rose. La beste a là son buisson. There the beast vseth to lodge, or laire. Tirer le serpent du buisson. Looke Serpent. Amour de Seigneur est ombre de buisson: Prov. The loue of a great man is either momentarie, or dangerous. En petit buisson trouve on grand lievre: Prov. A little bodie (oft) harbours a great heart; and a small head much wit. Il n'y a si petit buisson qui ne porte ombre: Prov. The least bush hath it shadow.

Buissonnages: m. Bushes; or, bushie grounds, bushie plots, bushie places.

Buissonnailles: f. Bushes; thornie groues.

Buissonné: m. ée: f. Bushie; thicke with, or full of, bushes; also, lodged in, retired into, or withdrawn among, bushes, or bushie places.

Buissonner. To dog, watch, or lye in wait for, (also, to lodge) among bushes.

Buissonnet: m. A little bush; thorne; groue, thicket.

Buissonneux: m. euse: f. Bushie, thornie, full of bushes.

Buissonnier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to bushes; frequenting, or haunting, bushes; liuing, or lurking, among bushes; and hence; Faire l' eschole buissonniere. To play the truant, or seeke birdes nests when hee should bee at schoole.

Buissonniere: f. A bushie groue, plot, or ground; a thicket of bushes, bryers, thornes.

Bulbe: m. A Bulbus; a bulbed, or onion, root; (generally) a root that is round, and hath many pills, or diuisions, one ouer the other, as th' onion, leeke, saffron, &c, (and particularly) the scallion. Bulbe sauvage. Dogs-bane, Corne-leeke, wild or medow Saffron. Bulbe vomitif. The root of the muskie Grape-flower; some also call so, Narcissus, or the white Daffadill; others, the rush Daffadill (Though the bulbed roots of all Daffadils might as well bee called so; for all of them prouoke vomit.)

Bulbeux: m. euse: f. Bulbed; round headed like an o-*

*nion, &c.

Bule: f. A blister; or bubble.

Buler. as Bugler; Also, the Pope to write, grant, or send a Bull; to execute, or excommunicate, by Bull.

Buletin. as Bulletin. Buliste: com. Of, or belonging to a Bull; or, as Buliste. Bullage: m. The sealing of cloath; the marking thereof with a seale of lead.

Bulle: f. A Bull; a Writ, Commission, or letter sealed with lead, and sent from the Pope; any such Papall, and leaden, dispatch.

Bullé: m. ée: f. Sealed with lead, as a Bull; stamped, as the leaden seale of a Bull; also, that hath obtained the Popes Bull for some particular aduancement, or priuiledge to himselfe.

Bulleteau: m. A boulter, or boulting cloth.

Bulleter. as Bluter. (v.m.) Bulletin: m. A bill, ticket, cocket; a billet in a Lotterie. Bulletins: m. (Among the Gray Friers are) such as haue beene reformed by the Popes Bulls.

Bullette: f. as Bulletin. Bullettes. Such bubbles, or bobs of glasse as women weare for Pendants at their eares.

Bulliste: m. A writer, or a maker of Bulls; or as Buliste. Bullonner. To runne, boyle, or burst, out in great aboundance; (an old word.)

Bullot. A certaine great, yellow, and sower, apple.

Buon: m. The beake of an Ewer, or pot; the mouth of a cruet, violl, &c; also, a little oyle pot.

Bupreste. The venomous blacke flie called, a long-leg, or wag-leg.

Buquer. To knocke, or to rap, at a doore.

Bur: m. as Bureau. Bur: m. Bure: f. Browne, russet, darke coloured.

Burail: m. as Burat; Silke-rash. Burail croisé. Silke say. Burail simple de Flanders, & vni. Silke Moccadoe.

Burat: m. Silke-rash; or any kind of stuffe thats halfe silke, and halfe worsted. Burat basin. Silke Bombaste. Burat crespu. Silke Curle; or Curle.

Burate: f. That which remaines in a churne after the best butter is taken out; which strained through a linnen cloath, and well salted, and wrought vntill it grow verie thicke, is kept in earthen pots for the vse of the meynie; also, as Burat. Burbarin. An allusion to Bustarin: ¶Rab. Bure: f. as Bureau; (in the first sence.)

Bureau: m. A thicke and course cloth, of a browne russet, or darke mingled, colour; also, the table thats within a court of Audit, or of Audience (belike, because tis vsually couered with a carpet of that cloth) also, the Court it selfe; also, the hearing, or decision, of causes in (such a) Court, whence;
  Ventre de bureau. One that feeds grosely.
  Le prochain bureau. The next day of hearing.
  Mettre sur le bureau. To fall a talking of; or to bring vpon the stage.
  Mettre le proces sur le bureau. To bring the suit vnto a hearing.
  Aussi bien sont amourettes sous bureau que sous brunettes: Prov. Loue trickes are played (loues rites performed,) as well by poore as rich, folkes; (or) as well in poore as rich, clothes.