List of Old English Words in the OED/BO

Old English	sb	English
Boar	n	A wild boar (sus scrofa) the wild ancestor of the domestic pig. 2. a male pig.
Board	n	(In OE.) a shield. 2. a hem, edge, coast, as in seaboard. 3. a border or side of anything. 4. a ship's side. 5. piece of timber sawn thin, as in floorboard, weatherboard. 6. stage of a theatre. 7. tablet on which games are played. 8. a table used for meals; food served at the table, as in board and lodgings 9. a table at which a council is held; person who meet at a council table. 10. any piece of furniture resembling a table, as in sideboard. 11. a backgammom board.
Board	phr	"Above Board" - open, without deceit, honestly, reputably.
Boarish	adj	Swinish, brutal, cruel.
Boat	n	A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. 2. Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. 2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class. 3. a vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy 4. Note: boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
Boat	vb	To carry by boat or ship. 2. to take a boat, embark. 3. to go in a boat, to row, navigate. 3. to ride or go by boat. 4. to transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. 5. . to place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
Boat	phr	"To Be in Someone Boat" - to meddle in the affairs of others.
Boat	phr	"To Be In the Same Boat" - in the same situation or predicament.
Boat	phr	"To Have an Oar in Another's Boat" - to meddle in another affairs.
Boat	phr	"To Miss the Boat" - to fail to take advantage of an opportunity.
Boat-bone	n	A bone of the carpus and tarsus, 'os naviculare'
Boat-house	n	A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.
Bodied	adj	Having a specified form of body . 2. having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate.
Bodily	adj	Of, or relating to, or concerning the body. 2. having a body or material, physical or corporeal. 3. real, actual, put into exection.
Bodingly	adv	In a boding manner.
Boating	n	Boats in a collective sense. 2. the action of going by boat.
Boatman	n	A man who manages a boat.
Boatmanship	n	The art of managing a boat or boats.
Boatswain	n	The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors. 3. the petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. 4. a kind of gull, the jaeger.
Boaty	adj	Fond of or given to boats.
Boc-leden	n	Latin, hence any literary language.
Boc-spel	n	(Book and story) - a history or narrative.
Bocstaff	n	A letter of the alphabet.
Bode	n	A message, announcement, herald, proclamation. 2. command, order, tiding. 3. premonition, omen, auguary, presentment, foreboding, prayer, petition. 4. on who makes an announcement, a herald, messenger.
Bode	vb	To announce, proclaim, preach. 2. to proclaim authoratively, decree, order, bid, command (a person.) 3. to announce beforehand, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presage. 4. 'well' or 'ill'-bode: give good or bad augur. 5. to signify. typify, present.
Bode	vb	To bid for, make an offer for.
Bodeful	adj	Full of presage, boding, ominous.
Bodeword	n	Commandment, behest, message, announcement, premonition, presage.
Bodied	adj	Having a specific form of body. 2. having form, corporeal or incarnate.
Bodily	adj	Of, or relating to, concerning the body. 2. having a material form, physical, corporeal. 3. real, actual,put into execution.
Bodily	adv	In or by a body, physically.
Boding	n	Annunciation, proclamation, preaching, presentment, prognostication.
Boding	adj	That bodes, portending, presaging, ominous.
Bodingly	adv	In a boding, porteninding, presaging, ominous manner.
Body	n	The physical frame. 2. the physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. 3. the fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. 4. corpse. 5. (archaic or informal except in compounds) - a person. 6. the torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). 7. the largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. 8. (archaic) the section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. 9. the content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. 10. a bodysuit. 11. (computer programming) the code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. Coherent group. 13. group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 14. an organisation, company or other authoritative group. 15. unified collection of details, knowledge or information. 16. material entity. 17. any physical or materail object. 18. substance; physical presence. 19. comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). 20. an agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable, as the English Channel as a body of water. 21. a nonpareil face on an agate body
Body	vb	To furnish with a body, to embody. 2. to give a body, consistence, or strength to (lit. & fig.) 3. to draw up or form troops; to form in a body.
Body	phr	"To Body Forth" - to represent in one's bodily form form. 2. to give mental shape to.
Body	phr	"To Body Out" - to give body or a body to. 2. to fill out a skeleton. 3. to give mental shape to. 4. to put an idea in outward shape or tangible form. 5. to exhibit in outward reality. 6. to represent, symbolize. 7. to indicate to betaken.
Bodyhood	n	Quality of having a body or being in a body.
Bodylich	n	Like, resembling or characteristic ogf a body.
Bodily	adv	In a manner of unspiritually, worldly.
Bodily fear	n	A fear of bodily harm for another person.
Bodily-hood	n	Bodlihood: of a corporeal nature or state.
Bodilyness	n	Boldliness: corporeality, the quality of being bodily.
Bodilywise	adj	Corporeally, in the body.
Bodiness	n	The state or quality of having having bodily form. 2. corporeity, material condition.
Bodiship	n	Corporeality, material, substance or condition.
Body-like	adj	Like a body, real, solid. 2. in a dody form; bodily.
Body-mind	n	"We know ourselves as 'body-mind' if by that be meant to co-existent, independent existence." 2. the defenders of this view speak not of a body-mind, seeking to identify by the hyphen the compound word in monistic identity of the inseparableness of the bodily-mental corporeality.
Bodysome	adj	Corporeal.
Body-soul	n	Body and soul regarded as a unified whole.
Body-stead	n	The nave of a church.
Bold	n	Dwelling, habitation, house, habitation (appears as "botl")
Bold	vb	To be or show oneself to be bold. 2. to become bold, grow strong or big.
Bold	adj	Of persons: stout-hearted, courageous, daring, fearless, opposite to timid, or fearful. 2. of words & actions: showing or requiring courage, daring, brave. 3. strong, mighty, big. 4. of grain: well-filled, plump, strong, fierce. 5. showing, daring, vigour, licence of conception or expression, vigorous, striking. 6. standing out, 'striking to the eye' 7. of typing or blue: boldface. 8. nautical language: applied to a coast or coastline rising steeply from the deep water; any broad, steep or projecting rockface. 9. of a ship: broad in the bow.
Bold	phr	"To Make or be Bold with" - to embolden, encourage. 2. to be so bold as venture, so far as, take the liberty (to do a thing) 3. to take liberties with, make free with. 4. in a negative sense: audacious, presumptous, too forward, immodest.
Bolden	vb	To make bold, embolden, encourage. 2. to take courage (to do something); be bold.
Bolden	adj	Swollen. 2. to make bold.
Boldening	n	The state or condition of being bold; emboldening.
Bold-hearted	adj	Brave, courageous, fearless, daring, stout-hearted.
Boldhood	n	Bolden, audacity.
Boldly	adv	In a bold manner, courageously, daringly, fearlessly. 2. in a bad or negative sense: with effrontery, impudently, shamelessly, presumptously. 3. confidently, with assurance, without doubt, without hestation. 4. with bold expression or handling; strongly, vigorously, shakingly, boldly.
Boldly	adj	Bold-looking.
Boldness	n	Courage, daring, fearlessness. 2. confidence, assurance, security. 3. boldship.
Boldness	phr	"To Take Boldness To" - to venture, to take the liberty (to do a thing) 2. to be impudent, presumptious
Boldness	phr	"Upon the Boldness of" - in reliance on, on the security of,
Boldship	n	Boldness.
Boldwordy	adj	Bold, outspoken in speech.
Bolg(h)en	adj	To swell, be proud or angry. 2. swollen with rage, anger; wrathful. 3. physically swollen.
Boll	n	.Old English bolla "bowl, cup, pot," merged with Middle Dutch bolle "round object," borrowed 13c., both from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole ). Influenced in meaning by Latin bulla "bubble, ball," ultimately from the same PIE root. Extended c.1500 to "round seed pod of flax or cotton." Boll weevil is 1895, American English. 2. a bowl, vesicle, bud.
Boll	vb	To swell, increase.
Bolled	adj	Swollen, enflated, ptotuberant. 2. swollen with pride; puffed up. 3. embossed, embellished.
Bolling	n	Swelling, inflating, enlarging. 2. excessive drinking, boozing, as in a 'boll-fellow.'
Bollock(s)	n	Testicles, goolies.
Bolly	adj	Covered in bubbles.
Bolster	n	A large cushion or pillow.  2. a pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. 3. (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the front wheels enough clearance to turn. 4. short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam. 5. sometimes also called a pillow or cross-head. 6. the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. 8. the part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle. 9. the metallic end of a pocket knife handle. 10. (architecture) the rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. 11. (military, historical) a block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Bolster	vb	To brace, reinforce, secure or support.
Bolstered	adj	Propped up, supported, padded, stuffed.
Bolstering	n	Action of maintaining or upholding almost always in a regular way or service;in modern use the factitious propping up of what can not stand of itself.
Bolster-shaped	adj	In the form or shape of a bolster.
Bolt	n	An arrow; hence the phrases 'bolt-upright' - straight up like an arrow; and 'bolt on end,' perpendicular. The word 'thunderbolt' thus means the arrow or weapon, that falls to the earth, after being discharged from the thunder-god. 2. a projectile, crossbow bolt. 3. the act of bolting; the act of breaking away, the act of breaking away from a political party. 4. a sudden spring or start. 5. (door latch; joiner)
Bolt	phr	"At First Bolt" - at the frst go.
Bolt	vb	'To Bolt" (sl.) - to run away, go straight away or out of sight quickly (like a arrow)
Bolt	phr	"To Bolt (or sit) Upright" - to sit up suddenly and rigidly straight. 2. to stand on end.
Bolt	phr	"To Bolt Out" - (lit. and Fig.)to exclude, shut in, shut up, as (bolting a door)
Bolt	phr	"To Make a Shaft or Bolt of It" - to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run with the risk; to venture.
Bolted	adj	Fastened together with bolts. 2. connected or assembled using a bolt. 3. secured as a door by a bolt. 4. sterted, dislodged. 5. struck suddenly like a bolt of lightning. 6. escaped, fleed, left town, ran away hastedly. 7. swallowed of food and drink quickly, gulped down. 8. blurted out, utter forecfully.
Bolthole	n	A means of escape from a hiding place. 2. place of escape or refuge.
Bolting	n	The action of ?????. 2. a hasty utterance, sudden blurting out. 3. a sudden starting off, a hurrying-away, a flight or running away (from a political party.)
Boltless	adj	Without or not having bolts.
Bolt-upright	adj	To carry oneself with a straight or upright posture.
Bolt-uprightness	n	The state or quality of having an upright posture.
Bond	n	Phonetic variation of bond - see 'band' OE. 'bonda' 'bunda' - husbandman, householder, husband, master of the house. 2. peasant, churl, , vassl, serf, one in bondage, to a superior, state of serfdom, slavery, not free, in bondage.
Bond	vb	To hold or bind together.
Bondhold	n	Tenure in bond service. 2. a tenure of bondland.
Bondholder	n	A tenant in bond service or bond-land.
Bondhood	n	Condition of a bond or vassal. 2. bondage, vassalage.
Bonding	n	The action of the verb: to hold or bind together. 2. the storage of goods in a bond-house. 3.
Bond-land	n	Land held by bondage tenure.
Bond-less	adj	Free from bonds, unfetterd, unrestrained.
Bondling	n	A slave, a slave child.
Bond-maid	n	A slave girl.
Bond-man	n	Villien, serf, slave.
Bond-man-blind	n	The game of "Blindman's bluff.'
Bond-manship	n	State or condition of a bond-man or bondsman. 2. serfdom, slavery.
Bondship	n	Condition or state of bondsman. 2. serfdom, bondage, suretyship.
Bondsman	n	One who becomes Surety by bond. 2. a man in bondage, a villein, a serf, a slave.
Bondswoman	n	Bondwoman or female slave.
Bone	n	A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 2. any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 3. a bone of a fish; a fishbone. 4. one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 5. anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 6. (figuratively) the framework of anything. 7. on off-white colour, like the colour of bone; bone colour. 8. (US, informal) a dollar. 9. (sl) an erect penis; a boner, 10. (sl) dominoes or dice.
Bone	adj	Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Bone	vb	To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 2. to fertilize with bone.  3. to put whalebone into. to bone stays (in civil engineering) 4. to make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 5. (vulgar, slang, of a man) to have sexual intercourse with. (usually with "up") 6. to throw out spicules of bone. 7. to deprive of bone; to take out the bones; fillet. 38 to study, work hard and diligently, ie 'bone down'
Bone	phr	"Bred in the Bone" - idiomatic: of a habit, personal characteristic - to ingrain, deeply instill or establish firmly within something natural; as, 'bred-in-the-bone goodness.'
Bone	phr	"In One's Bones - to havea sense or intuition of.
Bone	phr	"Near to the Bone" - miserly, niggardly.
Bone	phr	"To Make No Bones of It" - To make no objects or have any scruples about.
Bone	phr	"To Work to the Bone" - to work (usually someone other) extremely hard and long.
Boned	adj	Deprived of bones; filleted. 2. having high bone structure. 3. furnished with or having bones.
Bone dry	adj	Completely and thoroughly dry.
Bone-frame	n	Skeleton.
Bonehead	n	Fool, idiot, simpleton.
Bone-headness	n	Idiotcy, stupidity, foolishness.
Bone-house	n	A charnel-hose; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body.
Bonefire	n	Bonfire; a fire in which bonews are cremated.
Bonefire	vb	To Illuminate with bonefires; to make bonefires.
Bonfire	n	A fire in which bones are cremated. 2. a fire to burn unwanted or 'disreputable' items or people; such as proscribed works or heretics; a balefire. 3. a large, conrolled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night.
Bone-house	n	A charnel-hose; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body.
Bone-knowledge	n	Osteology.
Boneless	adj	Without bones; destitute of bones, mainly backbone; invertebrate. 2. lack energy and stamina; weak and insipid.
Bone-lessness	n	Condition of having no bones.
Bone-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of bone.
Bone-rotting	adj	The decaying of bones by becoming brittle.
Bone-salt	n	The main chemical compound in bones.
Bonewort	n	Name given to various plants, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, including the daisy, golden-rod, centuary (erythiceae); yellow-mountain pansy (consolida minor).
Bone-yard	n	Cemetery, graveyard.
Book	n	A hard-cover book. 2. a long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. 3. a major division of a long work, as Genesis is the first book of the Bible. 4. record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 5. convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 6. the script of a musical. 7. records of the accounts of a business. 8. long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. 9. (law) a colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement. 10.(sports) a document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 11. (sports, by extension) a list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
Book	vb	To reserve (something) for future use. 2. to write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 3. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 4. (sports) to issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 5. (intransitive, slang) to travel very fast. 6. to record bets as bookmaker. 7. ( law student slang) to receive the highest grade in a class. 8. to grant or assign (land) by charter.
Book	phr	"Be Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence)
Book	phr	"Go by the Book" - to do something exactly as by rules state; to do something by the book.
Book	phr	"Read like a Book" - to be able to discern someone's thoughts from his or her body language or other behaviour. 2. to know like a book.
Book	phr	"Throw the Book At" - to charge with or convict of as many crimes as possible. 2. to apply the harshest punishment to
Book	phr	"Without One's Book" - without authority. 2. from memorty, by rote.
Book-answerer	n	Critic.
Book-binder	n	A person whose profession is binding pages together to form a book; bibliopegist.
Book-binding	n	The art or craft of binding books.
Book-borrower	n	One who borrows books from a library or other sources.
Book-burning	n	The destruction of books and writings regarded as harmful or subversive.
Bookcraft	n	Book-learning, literary skill, literature.
Book-dealer	n	One who deals in books.
Booked	adj	nstructed by books, entered in books, registered, conveyed by character, listed, scheduled.
Book-end	n	One of the ends of an ornamental book props.
Booker	n	A writer of books, a scribe, one who enters in a book, a book-keeper.
Book-fell	n	A skin prepared for writing on a sheet of vellum or parchment, a vellum manuscript.
Book-flood	n	The deluge of books coming on the market around Christmas time.
Bookful	adj	As much as fills a book. 2. the entire contents of a book. 3. full of knowledge of books gathered from books.) 4. full or stored with books.
Book-hand	n	Writing in which each letter is formed separately and not joined to the others.
Book-hoard	n	A repository for books or documents (an exclusively OE word.) 2. a library; a biblioteque.
Bookhood	n	Knowledge of books, scholarship. 2. the estate of dignity of the book.
Book-hunt	vb	To follow the pursuits of a book-hunter or searcher of old and rare books.
Booking	n	The act or procees of writing something down in a book or books, esp. in accounting. 2. a reservation for a service, such as an accomodation in a hotel. 3. the engagement of a performer for a particular performer. 4. the issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, results in a yellow card or (another booking) a red card , that results in the player being sent off the playing field. 5. the process of photocopying, finger printing and recording identity data of a suspect following arrest.
Bookish	adj	Of, or belonging to a book or books, literary. 2. addicted to the reading of books, studious. 3. disparagingly acquainted with books.
Bookishly	adv	In a bookish way, fondness for books or study, learning (somewhat contemptously)
Book-keep	vb	To do book-keeping. 2. the skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, eg. income and expenses.
Book-keeper	n	A person responsible for keeping financial records and business records and documents,
Book-keeping	n	The act of being responsible for keeping financial record and documents.
Book-knowledge	n	"An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge.
Bookland	n	In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from fief, fee, service or such. 2. the land was held chiefly by the nobility or denominated churchholders.
Book-language	n	Classical Latin, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit, Pali etc.
Book-learned	adj	Learned in books, or knowldge acquired from them (usually in a disparaginging way)
Book-learnedness	n	State or quality of knowledge learned or acquired from books.
Book-less	adj	Ignorant of books, unscholarly, destitute of books.
Book-like	adj	Like or resembling a book.
Bookling	n	A little book.
Booklore	n	Book-learning, knowledge given from books.
Book-lover	n	One who loves books, loves to read books; bibliophile.
Bookmaker	n	One who makes books.
Bookman	n	One who sells or deals in books.
Book-minded	adj	Bookish, literary, scholastic; pedantic.
Book-mindness	n	The state or quality of being bookish, pedantic, etc.
Bookmonger	n	A bookseller or dealer in books.
Bookness	n	Bookishness.
Book of God	n	Bible
Book of the Dead	n	The ancient Eygptiian funerary text.
Book of the Living	n	The book Amun-Ra of the ancient eygptian made of pure gold and containing ancient spells and incantation that could take away living mortals.
Book of Words	n	Libretto.
Book-read	adj	Well read; skilled in or with book-learning.
Book-reading	n	A reading from a book by the author, usually at it's public launch. 2. a reading from a book on radio, usually to assist the sight-impaired.
Book-rights	n	The intellectual property and copyright realting to the publication and use of the book.
Bookroom	n	A room in which books are kept; a library.
Bookseller	n	A person engaged in the selling of books. 2. a business that sells books.
Bookselling	n	The occupation of buying and selling books.
Bookshelf	n	A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference
Bookshop	n	A shop that sells books; a bookstore.
Book-shy	adj	A reluctance or unwilling to read books.
Bookspeech	n	The speech of books, stiff, formal and sometimes prtentious.
Book spell	n	Boc speed.
Bookstand	n	A case or stand for books.
Booksy	adj	Characterized or derived from books. 2. given to books, bookish.
Bookwards	adv	In the direction of books,; in print.
Bookwise	adj	In the manner or form of a book.
Bookword	n	An inkhorn term or pretentious, rare word.
Book-work	n	Accounts, book-keeping works. 2. the art and science of formatting books. 3. work done with the aid of textboks.
Book-worm	n	An avid reader of books. 2. of various insects that infect books.
Book-worship	n	The ardent love of books and reading.
Bookwright	n	A maker or author of books.
Boor	n	OE: gebur. dweller, farmer.
Boor	vb	To dwell.
Boot	n	(Bote), good, advantage, profit, avail, use. 2. well-bing, bote. 3. that thing which is thrown in and given in addition. 4. to make up deficiency of value, a minumum compensation, odds. 5. the repair of decaying structuresm eg. bridges (bridgebote); also the levied contribution for keeping these in repair. 6. the right of the tenant to take timber, etc. for repairs, fixing and other necessary purpose from the landlords estate; common of estover; firebote, housebote, hedgebote. 7. a medicinal cure or remedy. 8. help or deliverance from evil or peril; assistance, relief, remedy, rescue. 9. the making amands for mischief or wrong doing; amends made. 10. compensation made, according to OE. usage for injury or wrongdoing, reparation, amends, satisfaction, manbote, inbote, thiefbote. 11. the expiation of sin, an offering by way of atonement, repentance, sin-offering, penance.
Boot	phr	"Boot of Bale" - a means or agent of help, also a personal agent, a helper.
Boot	phr	"It Is No Boot' - it avails me not. 2. it is of no use.
Boot	phr	"None Other Boot" - no other rsource, no (other) alternative.
Boot	phr	"To Do One's Boot" to render, help, remedy, to be of service, advantage, to good to,
Boot	phr	" To Boot" - to the good; to the advantage, into the bargain, in addition, besides, moreover. 2. phrases, 'in appreciatory phrases, "King Alfred to Boot!"
Boot	phr	"To Make No Boot of " - to make profit, gain by, to gain.
Bore	vb	To make a hole through something. 3. to make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. 4. to bore for water or oil. 5. to form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus. 6. to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. 7. to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. 8. to be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. 9. to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore	n	A hole drilled or milled through something. 2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired. 3. a tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. 4. a capped well drilled to tap artesian water. 5. the place where the well exists
Born	sfx	Born in or native to a place, as 'english-born'. 2. with respect to the birth order, as 'firstborn child.'
Born-again	adj	Regenerated, revitalized,
Borne	adj	Carried, sustained, endured.
Borough	n	Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress, borough'; influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge." 2. fortress, castle, or citadel; simply a large building. 3. court, a manor house. 4. a fortified town, a town possessing municipal organisation. 5. any place larger than a village. 6. an incorporated town, or village. 2, a town having a chief warden or burgess-master or borough-master larger than a village. 7. a town which sends a preresenative to parliament.
Borough-bote	n	Burgh-bote: a tax for repairing of a fortress.
Borough-breaking	n	Burgh-breaking : burgulary.
Borough-folk	n	the people of the town.
Borough-holder	n	In some yorkshire boroughs: a person who holds property by burgage tenure.
Boroughhood	n	The state of being a borough.
Borough-kenning	n	Barbican.
Borough-kind	n	Of the nature of a borough.
Borough-man	n	Townsfolk, citizen, burgess.
Borough-monger	n	One who trades in parliamentary seats for boroughs.
Borough-mote	n	Burgh-mote: Judicial assembly of a borough.
Borough-reeve	n	A governor of a town or city, especially during the Norman Conquest, representing the king's authority for fiscal and other purposes in borough. 2. a chief municiapal officer in certain unincorporated english towns.
Boroughship	n	A township, the fact of constituting a borough or township. 2. the condition of being for //// the good behaviour of neighbours.
Borough-town	n	A town which is a borough.
Borough-were	n	The people or community of a town; the townsmen.
Borrow	vb	To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 2. to adopt (an idea) as one's own. 3. to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. 4. to adopt a word from another language. 5. in arithmetic subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result. 5. to lend. 6. to temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 7. to feign or counterfeit.  8. to give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)
Borrowed	adj	That which has been borrowed.
Borrowed	phr	"Living On Borrowed Time" - an unexpected extension of time, especially of a person.
Borrower	n	One who borrows.
Borrowgang	n	Suretyship, the responsibility incurred by a surety.
Borrowing	n	An instance of borrowing something.
Borrowing	phr	"To Ask in Borrowing" - to ask for a loan.
Borrowing-days	n	The last three days of March (old reckoning) in scottish folklore to have been borrowed from April and supposed to be especially stormy.
Borrow-pit	n	In costruction and civil engineering, an area which material, usually soil, gravel, sand, has been dug up for use at another (usually nearby) location.
Bosom	n	(Originally meaning: arm?) women's breast. 2. the cavity of the stomach; one of the chambers of the heart, 3. the womb. part of the dress which covers the breast; the front of a shirt. 4. a curved recess, a cavity, a hollow interior, a sinus. 5. a hull or hold of a ship. 6. applied to the surface of the sea, a lake, a river or on the ground (with various association in the literal sense. 7. a concave bend in a coastline, or the part of the sea embraced by it; a bay. 8. the breast considered as the seat of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires. 9. repository of secret thoughts and counsels; hence used for inward thoughts.
Bosom	n	"The Friend of One's Bosom" - one's best friend.
Bosom	vb	To form a bosom, belly. 2. to put into a bosom, to embosom, to take to the bosom, embrace. 3. fig. to recieve into intimate companionship. 4. to have familiar interaction. 5. to hide a secret in the bosom. 6. to take to heart. 7. to keep in mind.
Bosom-child	n	Chershed child or offspring.
Bosom-devil	n	Torment of profound guilt and guiltiness.
Bosomed	adj	Having a bosom, shaped like a bosom. 3. enclsed, hidden, with bated breath.
Bosomer	n	One who or that which bosoms (in various senses)
Bosom-felt	adj	Deeply heart-felt emotion. 2. private, confidential, intimate.
Bosom-friend	n	Close, personal and intimate friend.
Bosom-friendship	n	Close and deep friendship.
Bosomful	adj	Bosomy, full-bossomed.
Bosom-hell	n	Deep emotional anguish.
Bosoming	adj	Embracing, taken into aone's bosom.
Bosom-throes	n	Struggle and agony of emotional torment.
Bosomy	adj	Full of secluded recesses, embracing. 2. of a woman having prominent breasts.
Boten	vb	To be better, to amend, recover health, be healed. 2. to make better in health, to heal, cure, boot, bote.
Botener	n	A healer, a curer, restorer.
Botening	n	Healing, restoring, curing.
Both	adj	Pronoun, conjunction: there are a number of theories, all similar, and deriving the word from the tendency to say "both the." One is that it is from the extended base of Old English begen. Another traces it to the rare late Old English by ba þa "both these," from ba (begen) + þa, a plural of se "that." A third theory traces it to Old Norse baðir "both, and "both the."
Bottle	n	A dwelling, habitation, building; from Middle English bottle, botle, buttle, from Old English botl, bold , abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple. Related to Old English byldan (“to build, construct”).
Bottom	n	The foundation, base, basis, footing. 3. the ground under a plant; the soil in which it grows. that which underlies or supports a thing. 4. a deep place, depth in the sea or land, abyss. 5. a ground or bed under the water, or a lake, sea, river. 6. dregs, sediment of liquor. 7. the lowest surface or part of a thing, the base. 8. the posterior. 9. the lap. 10. the seat of a chair. 9. the cocoon of the silk worm.
Bottom	vb	To put a bottom to. 2. to find a bottom or foundation. 3. to serve as a bottom for; fig, to establish firmly. 4. to rest as on foundation, to be based, to be grounded,(lit. and fig.) 5. to wind as a skein. 6. to reach the bottom of. 7. to drain to thr bottom; empty. 8. to reach the bottom. 9. to get to the bottom of; understanding thoroughly, reach the bottom of..
Bottom	phr	"To Be At The Bottom of" - to underlie, to be real author or source of.
Bottom	phr	"To Forgive From the Bottom of One's Heart" - to forgive completely.
Bottom	phr	"To Get to The Bottom Of" - to reach the bottom of, to drill down, understand thoroughly.
Bottom	phr	"To Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to be at the bottom; at the bottom, in reality as distinguished from a superficial.
Bottom-bed	n	The lowest stratum of a formation of rocks. 2. the stratum.
Bottomed	adj	Having a bottom; furnished with a bottom of some special material or form, as in composition. 2. covered at the bottom or foundation. 3. founded, based, grounded (mostly fig.)
Bottomed-ness	n	The quality of resting upon the a sure foundation. 2. stability.
Bottomer	n	One who puts a bottom to. 2. one who works or lives at the lowest stratum of society.
Bottom-ground	n	The basis, reason, as 'the bottom-ground of his wickedness.'
Bottom-heavy	adj	More weight at the top than the bottom.
Bottoming	n	The act of putting a bottom to anything. 2. the act of setting a sound foundation.
Bottom-lands	n	Low-lying stretch of level lands near a river.
Bottomless	adj	That has no bottom. 2. without a foundation, baseless, inexhaustible, unfathomable.
Bottom-lessly	adv	Unfathomably,
Bottom-lessness	n	State or quality of being bottomless.
Bottom-livers	n	Marine life living at extreme depths. 2. bottom-livers in the food chain" - poorest members of society.
Bottom-most	adj	That is at the very bottom; lowest.
Bottom-up(wards)	adv	An inverted position.
Bottomy	adj	Lying on a bottom, low-lying.
Bough	n	A firm branch of a tree.
Bough	n	A shoulder of an animal. 2. a limb, leg. 3. one of the larger limbs or offshots of a tree. 4. a main branch, but also applied to smaller branches. 4. transfig and fig. a main branch of a vein or artery. 5. a branch of a family or anything metaphoricaly referred to a tree, a gallow.
Bough	phr	"The Father to the Bough, the Son to the Plough." - supposed to mean that, according to a kentish Custom, attainder for felony does not deprive a man's children of the succession to his property.
Boughed	adj	Having branches; stripped of boughs.
Bough-house	n	A temporary structure msde of boughs.
Boughless	adj	Without or destitute of branches.
Boughly	adj	Bent, curved, having several bends.
Bough-runes	n	Name for the runic characteristic modifier so as to resemble 'the branching tree.' (also, the ice-runes one read in the same way as the 'bough-runes on the Maeshouse (Maeshowe) stones, a neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland.
Bought	n	(OE: byht) a bend or curve. 2. a hollow, angle or bend in an animal body. 3. a bending in a coastline, mountain chain. 4. a bend in a rope, loop, string or chain.
Bought-book	n	A book for keeping an account of goods bought.
Boughten	vb	In US, in application to purchased as opposed to home-made articles.
Bought-in	adj	Home produced. (bought-in goods)
Bought-out	adj	Purchased from an outside sources (not raised or produced on one's own premises)
Boughtwise	n	A coil, fold or knot formed by the body of a serpent. 2. tail of a horse.
Boughy	adj	Abounding in boughs.
Bouk	n	A belly, paunch, abdomen. 2. a trunk of the body, hence the body of a man or animal. 3. volume,largeness of volume, bulkness, the greater portion of anything.
Bouked	adj	Having a protuberance, bulksome, corpulent, portly, occupy large space, bulky. 3. great, plentiful, influential. 3.magnitude in three-dimension.
Boult	n	A hypotheical law case propounded and arranged and arranged for practice by students of The Inns of The Court (a Moot) - ????
Bourn	n	Burn, bourne, a small stream, a brook, creek, river, ea, sike, a winter bourn or torrents of rain of the chalk downs.
Bout	adv	(Prp and conjunction) - originally, be-utan: without, split up into. It sense continued as prep. and adv. Butan: but (still continues) - bout becomes obsolete, but acquires some uses in northern dialect, such as, outside, without; of position: with, beyond, except.
Bout-gate	adv	A going about, circuvention, equivocation, quibble.
Bove	adv	Shortening of 'above' - from OE. bufan, be-utan, from above.
Bow	n	A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, bent line. 2. a curved stroke forming part of a letter in calligraphy. 3. an arch (masonry) as in a gateway, or bridge. 5. a weapon for shooting an arrow. 6. a yoke for an oxen. 8. a single passage of the bow across the string. 9. an arc or circle. 10. an instrument for drawing curves. 11. the iris of the eye
Bow	n	OE: bu^ - a dwelling, cottage, building. 2. the stock of cattle on a farm, a herd, livestock. 3. a term used in old deeds to denote cattle.
Bow	n	"The Bow" - the hand (bowman) that holds the bow in archery
Bow	n	An inclination of the body or head in salutation.
Bow	vb	To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow. 2. the musician bowed his violin expertly. 3. to become bent or curved. 4. to make something bend or curve. 5. to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend,figuratively; to turn; to inclin. 5. to premiere.
Bow	vb	To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference. 2. to defer (to something).
Bow	phr	By the Stringer Rather Than the Bow" - by the most direct way.
Bow	phr	"Of the Bow and Arrow" - attributively belonging to or characteristic of the period when the 'bow and arrow' was the chief weapon of war.
Bow	phr	"The Bent of One's Bow" - one's intentions, inclinations, disposition.
Bow	phr	"To Bend or Bring (another) to One's Bow" - to bring someone to one's will, inclination or control
Bow	phr	"To Bow Out" - to leave, retire, retreat, resign, withdrawn, go away.
Bow	phr	To Come to (another's ) Bow - to be compliantor submissive.
Bow	phr	"To Draw a Long Bow" - to make exaggerated staements.
Bow	phr	"To Have More Strings to One's Bow" - to have many resources, skills or alternatives.
Bow	phr	"To Shoot with Another Bow"- to practise an art, occupation other than your own.
Bow	phr	Wide on the Bow Hand" - wide of the mark, inaccurate.
Bow-backed	adj	Having a permanently bent or crooked back. 2. having the back arched as an angry cat. 3.
Bow-bearer	n	A bearer of a bow; an archer.
Bow-bells	n	(The bells of the Bow Church)- 'St Mary-le-Bon" - within the sounds of the bow bells, synonymous with the city bounds. Cf cockney
Bow-bent	adj	Bowed.
Bowed	adj	Bent, curved, crooked. 2. bent down under the load or the weight of years.
Bowed	adj	Furnised with or provided with a bow.
Bowedness	n	In a bowed or bent condition.
Bower	n	OE: dwelling, abode, habitation, lady apartment. 2. in early use : a cottage; in later poetical word for 'abode' 3. a vague, poetic word for an idealised, not realised in any actual dwelling. 4. a fancy, rustic cottage or country residence. 5. a covered stall or booth at a fair. 6. an inner apartment, esp. distinguished from the hall or large public room, in ancient mansion. 7. esp. applied to a lady private apartment; a boduor (poetic). 8. a place closed in or overarched with branches of trees, shrubs or other plants; a shady recess, arbour.
Bower	n	Of a tenant who rents a herd of cows along with their pasture and fodder from a proprietor or farmer and makes what profit he can get out of their produce, after paying the rents; or who gives his labour as a share ; and divides profits with the proprietor of the stocks. 2. a farmer, peasant.
Bower	n	One who plays with a bow on a violin or stringed instruments.
Bower	n	One who bows, stoops. 2. one who bends anything; that which causes to bend; a muscle.
Bower	vb	To embower, to enclose. 2. to take shelter, make one's dwelling.
Bower-bird	n	A name given to several australian birds of the starling family, which builds bowers or runs.
Bowered	adj	Shaded, enbowered, finished with bowers.
Bowering	n	Embowering, shady, covering.
Bowerless	adj	Without a bower or bowers.
Bowermaid	n	Chambermaid; a lady-in-waiting.
Bower-thane	n	A chambermaid; lady-in-waiting.
Bow-houghed	adj	having the crooked hips.
Bow-house	n	A cattle stall.
Bowing	n	Bowing, bending, bend, curving, twisting, flexing, flexion, flexive inclination. 2. curved or bent part. 3. the bowing inflexion of the voice. 4. the action of the body or head in salutation. 5. the place of the violin on a bow.
Bowing	adj	That bends or inclines, inclined, bent. 2. that may be bent, flexible, pliant. 3. yielding, submissive, obedient.
Bowingly	adv	In a curving or bending manner or direction.
Bowingness	n	A bending quality.
Bowl	n	Round vessel to hold liquids, a cup. 2. a drinking vessel. 3. a tub or rounded vessel. 4. the more or less bowl-shaped part of a vessel. 5. the basis of a fountain.
Bowl	n	"The Bowl" - drinking, convivality.
Bowl	vb	To curve, crook, hence bowled, bowld.
Bowl-barrow	n	A pre-historic mound of the shape of an upturned bowl.
Bowl-dish	n	A dish or food served in a bowl.
Bowler	n	One who engages in the sport of bowling. 2. (cricket) the player currently bowling. 3. (cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. 2. a deep-drinker, drunkard.
Bow-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a bow.
Bowl-less	adj	Not having or without a bowl.
Bowl-shaped	adj	Having a natural basis. 2. the blade of an oar.
Bowl-weft	n	Applied to materials drawn out by weavers in Lanarkshire to exchange with travelling hawkers for bowls and other earthenware dishes.
Bowly	adj	Bent, round.
Bow-maker	n	A maker of bows and arrows.
Bowman	n	One who shoots arrow. 2. one who roars by oar. 3. "the bowman' - plural collective.
Bow-shape	n	Having the shape of a bow.
Bowman's-root	n	Name given to certain plants, as 'gillenia trifolata"; euphorbia corollata, incardia alternifolia.'
Bowsprit	n	Sprout-pole.
Bowstring	n	The string of a bow.
Bow-wise	adj	In the form or figure of a bow.
Bowyer	n	One who makes or trades in bows. 2. a bower.
Box	n	Receptacle, container, holder. 2. a coffin. 3. box under the driver's seat on a coach. 4. a box and its contents; hence, a variable measure of quality. 4. light shield worn by crickketers to protect their genitals. 5. a cavity made in the trunk of a tree to collect its sap.
Box	phr	"One Out of the Box" - an excellent person or thing.
Box	phr	" To Be in the Box" - (colloq) to be in the same box; to be in similar (unhappy) predicament.
Boxmaker	n	One who makes boxes for a living.
Boxed	adj	Enclosed or included in a box; confined in a box. 2. confined, limited, boxed up, uncomfortable.
Boxen	n	A small evergreen tree
Boxer	n	Squarely built, fawn or brindle breed of dog of the bulldog type.
Boxful	adj	As much as a box can contain.
Boxing	n	The structure or working of boxes. 2. the putting in or providing with, a box. 3. a wooden casin, conduit constructed after a manner of a box. 4. the lining of a well.
Boxing-day	n	The day after Christmas Day, December, 26th.
Boxy	adj	Resembling a box in shape, comparable to a box. 2. of clothes: having a squared look of the feet of a horse or mule. 3. high and narrow.