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such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

dy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

th a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

"A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.

ers swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

t timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] Milton. Shak.

ife blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.

tiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

-- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

lence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.…

d holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

Bent, like a bow. Milton.