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Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

See Bonnibel. [Obs.] Spenser.

A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl. [Obs.] Spenser.

Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

or the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

re of flight, it is no boot. Shak. To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed…

See Bourd. [Obs.] Spenser.

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." Spenser. The borrowed majesty of England. Shak.

Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

A gallows. [Archaic] Spenser.