An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 99 : BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle part of the out

BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.

_Complaynt S._

Sw. _bog-lina_, id. from _bog_, flexus.

BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, _adj._ Ready, prepared, S.

_Barbour._

_Bone_ is used in the same sense, O. E.

Su. G. _bo_, _bo-a_, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. _bu-a_, id.

_Boen_ or _boin_ is the part. pa.

_To_ BOUN, BOWN, _v. a._

1. To make ready, to prepare.

_Wallace._

2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place.

_Sir Egeir._

BOUND, BUND, _part. pa._ Pregnant.

_Douglas._

_To_ BOUNT, _v. n._ To spring, to bound.

Fr. _bond-ir_, id.

_Burel._

BOUNTe, _s._ Worth, goodness.

_Barbour._

Fr. _bonte_, id.

BOUNTETH, BOUNt.i.tH, _s._

1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices.

_Watson's Coll._

2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.

_Ramsay._

Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.

BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a _bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_, habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence _bour-bourding_, jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.

BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._

1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S.

_Kelly._

"We'll never big sandy _bowrocks_ together."

_S. Prov. Kelly._

2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quant.i.ty of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.

_Statist. Acc._

4. A cl.u.s.ter, as of trees, S.

_Ferguson._

A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.

~Burrach'd~, ~Bourach'd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.

_Ross._

BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking, S.