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n mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

loset. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.

rrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

ssels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. -- Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. -- Bone dust,…

See Bonito. Sir T. Herbert.

e of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

e. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.

he sike man his boote. Chaucer. Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound. Sir W. Scott. Next her Son, our soul's best boot. Wordsworth.

Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.

A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.

e "hot region." Prescott. Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf. Sir W. Raleigh.

security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.] Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. Sir W. Scott.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Inclination; desire. [Obs.] Shak.

as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.

A curved handle. Sir W. Scott.

To make or get ready. Sir W. Scott.