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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.

Cotton; padding. [Obs.]

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

oft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

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

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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.

A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

er land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.

brought into life; introduced by birth. No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. Prescott.

incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erski…

y; 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.

Same as Bothy. [Scot.]