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A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written also burbolt.]

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.

Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

Same as Haybote.

allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.

The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. Spelman.

See Mægbote.

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

One versed in paleobotany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

The upland plover. [Local, U. S.]