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.
Boar hound	n	A ground mastiff used in hunting boar.
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.
Board	phr	"Above Board" - open, without deceit, honestly, legitimate, reputably.
Board	phr	"Board Out" - have meals outside the place one's sleep. 2. give somebody food and lodging in a separate place from school, college etc where they work.
Board	phr	"Board Up" - cover with boards (because a house is no longer occupied; is about to be pulled down).
Board	phr	"Go By the Board" - be forgotten, ignored.
Board	phr	"Go Overboard" - act foolishly and in a excessive way.
Board	phr	"On board" - aboard.
Board	phr	"On the Drawing Board" - be planned in detail.
Board }	phr	"Pipe On Board" - welcome a person.
Board	phr	"Stiff as a Board" - rigid, very stiff (of one joints).
Board	phr	"Sweep The Board" - win everything.
Board	phr	"Take on Board" - acept an idea, proposal.
Board	phr	"Tread the Boards" - to appear as an actor.
Boardbook	n
Boarding	n	A wooden fence, floor, etc.; entering a ship by force. 2. obtaining board and lodging for a fixed cost.
Boarding-house	n	A house in which boarders are accommodated.
Boarding-out	n	A system by which government authority send children under their charge to be cared for in private arrangement for payment.
Boarding school	n	A school in which the pupils are in residence.
Board rider	n	A surfer.
Boards	n	A stage in a theatre.
Board-shaper	n	Someone who builds or designs surfboards by hand.
Board sock	n	A covering for a surfboard.
Board-walk	n	In US, a footway consisting of planks.
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 as an adjective or in combination; as, boat builder or boat builder; boat building or boat building; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boat-keeper; boat load; boat race; boat rowing; boat song; boat-like; 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	"Be in Someone Boat" - to meddle in the affairs of others.
Boat	phr	"Be In the Same Boat" - in the same situation or predicament. 2. to share a common set of difficulties.
Boat	phr	"Get off the Boat" - to disassociate oneself from some project.
Boat	phr	"Have an Oar in Another Boat" - to meddle in another affairs.
Boat	phr	"Miss the Boat" - to fail to take advantage of, or exploit, an opportunity.
Boat	phr	"To Rock the Boat" - to disturb the comfortable status quo.
Boat-bone	n	A bone of the carpus and tarsus, 'os naviculare'
Boat-bridge	n	A pontoon.
Boatful	adj	As much cargo or as many passengers as a boat can hold.
Boat-hook	n	A long pole with a hook and a spike at one end, for moving boats.
Boat-house	n	A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.
Boating	n	Boats in a collective sense. 2. the action of going by boat.
Boat-keeper	n	Boat hirer.
Boatload	n	Enough to fill a boat. 2. colloquial: a large number of people.
Boatman	n	A man who manages a boat.
Boatmanship	n	The art of managing a boat or boats.
Boat song	n	A song sung by rowers to keep in time.
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.
Bockland	n	See "Bookland"
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, augaury, presentment, foreboding, prayer, petition. 4. on who makes an announcement, a herald, messenger.
Bode	vb	To announce, proclaim, preach. 2. to proclaim authoritatively, decree, order, bid, command (a person.) 3. to announce beforehand, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presage, portend. 4. 'well' or 'ill'-bode: give good or bad augur. 5. to signify. typify, present.
Bode	vb	To bid for, make an offer for.
Bode	phr	" Bode well" - show good signs for the future.
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.
Bodiend	n	A preacher; ecclessiast. See: friend, fiend, healend, waldend, shapend, mightend, almightend, milciend, slinkend, speliend, stygand.
Boddiless	adj	Lacking a body. 2. incorporeal, insubstantial.
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.
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. corporeality, material condition.
Boding	n	Annunciation, proclamation, preaching, presentment, prognostication.
Boding	adj	That bodes, portending, presaging, ominous.
Bodingly	adv	In a boding, portending, presaging, ominous manner.
Bodiship	n	Corporeality, material, substance or condition.
Body	n	Was rendered bodiġ (IPA /ˈbodij/) in Old English, and was of neuter gender. 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. 12. a coherent group. 13. group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 14. an organization, 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 Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, the Old English word also meant "bigness or height of body, stature; statura." Oxford Dictionary this word's origin is: "Old English bodig, of unknown origin." Online Etymology Dictionary this word's origin is: "Old English bodig 'trunk of a man or beast, physical structure of a human or animal; material frame, material existence of a human; main or principal part of anything,' related to Old High German botah, but otherwise of unknown origin. Not elsewhere in Germanic, and the word has died out in German (replaced by Leib, originally 'life,' and Körper, from Latin), 'but in English body remains as a great and important word' [OED]" This word has recently been borrowed into other Germanic languages, however.]
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	"A Body Blow?" - something that effects one or one's plans badly, severely etc., a stroke of bad luck, bad news, adverse criticism.
Body	phr	"Body and Soul" - completely, with all one's energy, devotion etc.
Body	phr	"Body Forth" - to represent in one's bodily form form. 2. to give mental shape to.
Body	phr	"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.
Body	phr	"Have No Body" - lack substance.
Body	phr	"In a Body" - all together.
Body	phr	"Keep Body and Soul Together" - to keep alive.
Body	phr	"Over My Dead Body" - only if my most vigorous opposition fails.
Body	phr	"Own Somebody Body and Soul" - control somebody completely.
Body	phr	"The Seven Bodies" - the seven metals supposed by alchemists to corespond with the seven planets. The Sun (or Apollo) - Gold; The Moon (or Diana) - Silver; Mercury - Quicksilver; Venus - Copper; Jupiter - Tin; Mars - Iron; Saturn - Lead.
Body-building	n	The practice of strengthening the body, esp. by shaping and enlarging the muscles, by exercise.
Bodyhood	n	Quality of having a body or being in a body.
Body-like	adj	Like a body, real, solid. 2. in a body form; bodily. like, resembling a body, real, solid.
Body linen	n	Shirts, underwear, etc made of linen or cotton.
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 monastic identity of the inseparable state of the bodily-mental corporeality.
Body shop	n	A workshop where repairs to the bodywork of vehicles are carried out.
Bodysome	adj	Corporeal.
Body-soul	n	Body and soul regarded as a unified whole.
Body-stead	n	The nave of a church.
Body-warmer	n	Sleeveless quilted or padded jacket worn as an outdoor garment.
Body-wave	n	A soft light permanent wave designed to give the hair fullness.
Body-weight	n	The weight of a person's body.
Body-whorl	n	The last formed whorl of a univalve shell. ('Whorl': to turn)
Body-work	n	The outer shell of a vehicle.
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.
Boil	n	OE. byle: a sore. a local inflammation of the skin around a hair follicle consisting of a hard swelling of dead tissue with the accumulation of pus.
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 rock-face. 9. of a ship: broad in the bow.
Bold	phr	"Be so Bold as" - presume, venture to.
Bold	phr	"Bold as Brass" - impudent, aggressive; defiant; in a shameless, insolent, manner.
Bold	phr	"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, presumptuous, too forward, immodest.
Bold	phr	"Make so Bold As" - presume, take the liberty.
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, presumptuously. 3. confidently, with assurance, without doubt, without hesitation. 4. with bold expression or handling; strongly, vigorously, with the shakes, boldly.
Boldly	adj	Bold-looking.
Boldness	n	Courage, daring, fearlessness. 2. confidence, assurance, security. 3. boldship.
Boldness	phr	"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 Englis 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	phr	"Bolt Down (Food)" - swallow one's food quickly (through hunger and greed, or because one is in a hurry).
Bolt	phr	"Bolt From the Blue" - a sudden and unexpected event, especially one of of an unpleasant or catastrophic nature.
Bolt	phr	"Bolt Out" - (lit. and Fig.)to exclude, shut in, shut up, as (bolting a door)
Bolt	phr	"Make a Shaft or Bolt of It" - to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run with the risk; to venture.
Bolt	phr	"Shoot One's Bolt" - to lose one's temper.
Bolt	phr	"Sit Bolt Upright" - to sit up suddenly and rigidly straight. 2. to stand on end.
Bolt	phr	"To Bolt" (sl.) - to run away, go straight away or out of sight quickly (like a arrow).
Bolted	adj	Fastened together with bolts?. 2. connected or assembled using a bolt. 3. secured as a door by a bolt. 4. started, dislodged. 5. struck suddenly like a bolt of lightning. 6. escaped, fled, left town, ran away with haste. 7. swallowed of food and drink quickly, gulped down. 8. blurted out, utter forcefully.
Bolthole	n	a place where a person can escape and hide. 2. a hole or burrow by which a rabbit or other wild animal can escape. 3. a means of escape from a hiding place. 4. place of escape or refuge; a haven.
Bolting	n	The action of bolting. 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-on	n	A thing that can be bolted on.
Bolt-on	adj	Able to be fastened or attached.
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	Late O.E. from Old Norse. phonetic variation of bond - see 'band' OE. 'bonda' 'bunda' - husbandman, householder, husband, master of the house. 2. peasant, churl, , vassal, serf, one in bondage, to a superior, state of serfdom, slavery, not free, in bondage.
Bond	vb	To hold or bind together.
Bonded	adj	Held in payment of bonds for payment of duties. 2. secured by bond, as a debt. 3. mortgaged.
Bonded wharehouse	n	A wharehouse for bonded goods.
Bondhold	n	Tenure in bond service. 2. a tenure of a bond land.
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.
Bond-land	n	Land held by bondage tenure.
Bond-less	adj	Free from bonds, unfettered, 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 fish bone. 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, as 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.
Bone	phr	"A Good Bone Never Falls to a Good Dog" - reward reward is always in the inverse ratio of the duties done.
Bone	phr	"Bone Idle" - idle, lazy, as an incurable fault.
Bone	phr	"Bone in One's Mouth" - said of a ship speeding along throwing up spray or foam under the bows.
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	"Feel Something In One's Bones" - suspect something without having any real evidence for it.
Bone	phr	"Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret.
Bone	phr	"Have a Bone in One's Throat" - I cannot talk; I cannot answer your question.
Bone	phr	"In One's Bones - to have a sense or intuition of.
Bone	phr	"Make No Bones of It" - to make no objects or have any scruples about. 2. be brutally frank.
Bone	phr	"Make Old Bones" - live to a great ahge.
Bone	phr	"Near to the Bone" - miserly, niggardly.
Bone	phr	"Put Flesh and Bone on Something" - to supply details of a proposal previously only revealed in outline.
Bone	phr	"The Bare Bones" - (of a story) nothing but the essential elements.
Bone	phr	"Throw Somebody a Bone" - to fob a person off with a symbolic but unimportant gesture.
Bone	phr	"Work Ones Fingers 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-deep	adj	as deep as the bone: penetrating to the depth of bone. 2. very thorough or deeply felt.
Bone dry	adj	Completely and thoroughly dry. 2. dull, boring, uninteresting, tedious.
Bone earth	n	Ash left when are reduced in a furnace.
Bonefire	vb	To illuminate with bonfires; to make bonfires.
Bonefire	n	Bonfire: 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, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night.
Bone-frame	n	Skeleton.
Bonehead	n	Fool, idiot, simpleton.
Bone-headness	n	Idiotcy, stupidity, foolishness.
Bone-house	n	A charnel-house; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body.
Bone-know	n	Osteology.
Boneless	adj	Without bones; destitute of bones, mainly backbone; invertebrate. 2. lack energy and stamina; weak and insipid.
Bonelessness	n	Condition of having no bones.
Bone-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of bone.
Bone-marrow	n	A soft fatty substance in the cavities of bone, in which bone cells are produced. 2. the essential part; typifying strength and vitality.
Bone-meal	n	Crushed or ground bone used esp. as fertilizer.
Bone-rotting	adj	The decaying of bones by becoming brittle.
Bones	n	Human remains; corpse.
Bone-salt	n	The main chemical compound in bones.
Bone-setter	n	A person who sets broken bones or dislocated bones, esp. without being a qualified surgeon.
Bone-shaker	n	Any old crock of a vehicle.
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.
Bonefire	vb	To illuminate with bonfires; to make bonfires.
Bonefire	n	Bonfire: 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, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night.
Bonfire Night	n	The night of 5th of November on which fireworks are let off and an effigy of Guy fawkes is burnt.
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 In Somebody's Black Books" - be out of favor with a person.
Book	phr	"Be In Somebody's Good Books" - be well regarded by another person.
Book	phr	"Bell, Book and Candle" - the phrase for the ceremonial name for excomunication in the Roman Catholic Church.
Book	phr	"Book a Seat" - purchase a ticket for a theatre, railway journey. In coaching days and in early days or railways, tickets sold at Booking offices were written out and entered up in the books by clerks.
Book	phr	"Booked Up" - have no seats or rooms left (for a travelers, film or theatre-goers etc). 2. have no free time left, through pressure of engagements etc.
Book	phr	"Book In" - enter or register the name of a guest at arrival at a hotel, motel.
Book	phr	"Book of Books" - the Bible.
Book	phr	"Book of God" - the Bible
Book	phr	"Book of Life" - in the Bible language, a register of names of those who have inherited eternal life.
Book	phr	"Book of the Dead" - collection of Egyptian texts, both religious and magical, concerned with guidance for the safe conduct of souls through Amenti (the Egyptian Hades).
Book	phr	"Book of Words" - libretto.
Book	phr	"Book Up" - reserve accommodation in a hotel, on an aircraft or train.
Book	phr	"Bring to Book" - call to account. 2. find evidence to arrest. 3. try or punish someone.
Book	phr	"Go by the Book" - to do something exactly as by rules state; to do something by the book.
Book	phr	In One's Book" - in one's own opinion.
Book	phr	"In One's Good Books" - liked.
Book	phr	"Kiss the Book" - to kiss the Bible or New Testament, after taking an oath, the kiss of confirmation or promise to act in accordance with the words of the oath, and the public acknowledge of its sanctity
Book	phr	"Know One's Book" - to know one's own interest; know which side one's bread is buttered.
Book	phr	"Men Who Burn Books, in the End Burn Other Men" - intolerance grows slowly but surely.
Book	phr	"On the Books" - on the list of candidates for membership to a club, for employment etc.
Book	phr	"One for the Book" - something worth noting or recording.
Book	phr	"Out of My Books" - not in favor, no longer on my list of friends.
Book	phr	"Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence).
Book	phr	"Play by the Book" - to apply the rules strictly.
Book	phr	"Read like a (Open)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	"Speak by the Book" - speak with meticulous exactness. 2. to speak literatim, according to what is in the book.
Book	phr	"Speak Like a Book" - to speak with great precision and accuracy; to be full of information. Often used by a pedant.
Book	phr	"Take a Leaf Out of Somebody's Book" - to model oneself on another person. 2. copy someone's example.
Book	phr	"Take One's Name Off the Books" - to withdraw from a club, organization or register; etc. In the passive voice it means to be excluded
Book	phr	"Talk Like a Book" - to have an eloquent flow of language. 2. to speak pedantically.
Book	phr	"Talk One's Book" - to present arguments which, while plausible, are really designed to foster one's vested interest.
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	"To Be Booked" - not to be available; to have a previous commitment in one's engagement book or diary.
Book	phr	"Turn Up for the Books" - to be a surprizing developments.
Book	phr	"Upon the Books" - to have one's name included on an official list.
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.
Book-holder	n	An appliance for keeping a book in a reading position.
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.
Book-hunter	n	One who searches for 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 accommodation 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.
Booking-hall	n	A booking office.
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-knowing	n	"An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge.
Bookland	n	Also spelt Bocland. In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from fief, fee, service or such. The land was held chiefly by the nobility or denominated church holders. 2. land of inheritance grant from Folkland in Anglo-Saxon England by the king of the Witan by written charter or book. It was first given to the Church, but also to lay-folk. the origin of the freehold system. The place-name Buckland is probably derived from this.
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-learning	n	Mere theory.
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, or acquired from books.
Bok-louse	n	A minute insect often damaging 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 mark	n	A strip of leather, card etc used to mark one's place in a book.
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 oath	n	An oath made on the Bible.
Book of God	n	Bible
Book of the Dead	n	The ancient Egyptian 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-rest	n	An adjustable support for an open book on a table.
Book-ridden	adj	Dominated or plagued by books, as a dusty "book-ridden" room.
Book-rights	n	The intellectual property and copyright relating 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.
Book stall	n	A stand for selling books, newspapers etc. esp. out of doors or at a train station.
Bookstand	n	A case or stand for books.
Booksy	adj	Characterized or derived from books. 2. given to books, bookish.
Book-token	n	A voucher which can be exchanged for books with a specific value.
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	(1)(Not Old English)An outer covering for the foot, esp. of leather, reaching above the ankle, often to the knee. This word does not derive from Old English: it is Middle English from Old Norse or French. NB. Himming is the Old English word for boot
Boot	n	(2)(Bote), good, advantage, profit, avail, use. 2. well-being, bote. 3. that thing which is thrown in and given in addition. 4. to make up deficiency of value, a minimum compensation, odds. 5. the repair of decaying structures 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	"Make No Boot of " - to make profit, gain by, to gain.
Boot	phr	"None Other Boot" - no other resource, no (other) alternative.
Boot	phr	"To Boot (Bote)" - to the good; to the advantage, into the bargain, in addition, besides, moreover. 2. phrases, 'in appreciatory phrases, "King Alfred to Boot!"
Bor	n	Apparently O.E. gebur, neighbour. An east Anglican form of address to a lad, boy, or young man.
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
Bore	phr	"Full Bore Ahead" - proceed.
Borer	n	An insect which bores into wood.
Born	adj	Existing as a result of birth. 2. being such or likely to become such by natural ability or quality (a born leader). 3. having a specified destiny or prospect (born to be a king). 4. certain status by birth and upbringing.
Born	sfx	Born in or native to a place, as 'English-born'. 2. with respect to the birth order, as 'firstborn child.'
Born	phr	"Born and Bred" - born, reared and educated in a specified place, in a specified manner.
Born	phr	"Born in the Purple" - born of royal or very aristocratic parents; a privileged member of society.
Born	phr	"Born with a Silver Spoon in One's Mouth" - born of wealthy parents; born the heir to a fortune, or comfortable living.
Born	phr	"In All My Born Days" - in all my experience.
Born	phr	"Not Born Yesterday" - not naive, stupid, shrewd.
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 organization. 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 representative to parliament.
Borough-bote	n	Burgh-bote: a tax for repairing of a fortress.
Borough-breaking	n	Burgh-breaking : burglary.
Borough English	n	A custom abolished in 1925 by which real estate passed to the youngest instead of the eldest. Also known as, Cradle-land; Cradle-holding.
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 municipal 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)
Borrow	n	O.E. (borg) - a pledge or security; the modern sense depended originally on the actual pledging of something for a security for a loan.
Borrow-brain	n	To consult with or hire temporarily hire a person who has expertise in a particular field; a consultant.
Borrowed	adj	That which has been borrowed.
Borrowed	phr	"Living On Borrowed Time" - an unexpected extension of time, especially of a person. 2. to live longer than expected.
Borrowed days	n	The last three days of March are said to be "borrowed from April". 2. borrowing days.
Borrower	n	One who borrows.
Borrowgang	n	Suretyship, the responsibility incurred by a surety.
Borrowing	n	An instance of borrowing something.
Borrowing	phr	"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 (borrowed days)from April and supposed to be especially stormy.
Borrow-pit	n	In construction 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	vb	To form a bosom, belly. 2. to put into a bosom, to embosom, to take to the bosom, embrace. 3. fig. to receive 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	phr	"Take to One's Bosom" - make an intimate friend of.
Bosom	phr	"The Friend of One's Bosom" - one's best friend; one's bosom friend.
Bosom-child	n	Cherished 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.
Bote	n	Compensation, such as for injury to person or honor.
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." 2. each of two.
Both	phr	"Play Both Ends Against the Middle" - risky action of trying to play one's opponents off against each other.
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	"At Bottom" - radically, fundamentally.
Bottom	phr	"Be At The Bottom of" - to underlie, to be real cause or source of. 2. to instigate it or prompt it.
Bottom	phr	"Be At the Bottom of the Ladder" - be the most junior position in some hierarchy.
Bottom	phr	"Be Rock Bottom" - reach the lowest possible point.
Bottom	phr	"Bottom Falls Out Of" - collapses; gives way.
Bottom	phr	"Bottom Out" - to have reached the lowest point in a continuously changing situation and to be about to improve.
Bottom	phr	"(Forgive) From the Bottom of One's Heart" - to forgive sincerely and completely.
Bottom	phr	"Get to The Bottom Of" - to reach the bottom of, to drill down, understand thoroughly.
Bottom	phr	"Have No Bottom" - ti be unfathomable; to be unstable.
Bottom	phr	"Hit Rock Bottom" - the lowest point possible.
Bottom	phr	"Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to be at the bottom; at the bottom, in reality as distinguished from a superficial.
Bottom	phr	"One Bottom Drawer" - a girl or young woman's collection of clothes, linen etc towards her marriage (although she may collect these items long before she has any actual plans of marriage).
Bottom	phr	"On the Bottom Rung of the Ladder" - of the lowest status or position.
Bottom ash	n	Bottom ash is the coarse, granular, incombustible by-product of coal combustion that is collected from the bottom of furnaces. Most bottom ash is produced at coal-fired power plants.
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.)
Bottomedness	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-fish	n	Fish such as a catfish, carp, or flounder, that live on or near the bottom of a body of water. 2. bottom-livers.
Bottom-fishing	n	Trawling.
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.
Bottomlessly	adv	Unfathomably,
Bottomlessness	n	State or quality of being bottomless.
Bottomless pit	n	Hell is so called in the "Book of Revelation". 2. a scheme that promises prosperity, but in the end costs the investor a large sum of his money.
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.
Bottomness	n	(In physics) A quantum number of quarks & hadrons, determined by the number(s) of bottom quarks & antiquarks present. Symbol B.
Bottom rung	n	The lowest status or position.
Bottom time	n	Time used in calculating decompression obligation from decompression tables. For most tables this is defined as the elapsed time from starting the descent to starting the final ascent to the surface, excluding ascent and decompression time.
Bottom-up(wards)	adv	An inverted position.
Bottomwards	adj	To or towards the bottom. 2. in the direction of the bottom; downwards.
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 off shots of a tree. 4. a main branch, but also applied to smaller branches. 4. in transfiguratively and fig. a main branch of a vein or artery. 5. a branch of a family or anything metaphorically referred to a tree, the gallows.
Bough	phr	"The Father to the Bough, the Son to the Plough." - supposed to mean that, according to a Kent 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, bulk, 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) -
Bound	adj	English has no fewer than four separate words 'bound'. the only one going back to Old Engish is the adjective meaning 'obliged or destined'.
Bounden	adj	Obligatory, necessary as aduty. 2. undeer obligation, obliged.
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	"Bend or Bring (another) to One's Bow" - to bring someone to one's will, inclination or control.
Bow	phr	"Bow Down to (Someone) Better" - to succumb to pressure. 2. accept that someone knows bett er.
Bow	phr	"Bowed Down With" - troubled, worried by.
Bow	phr	"Bow Out" - to leave, retire, retreat, resign, withdrawn, go away.
Bow	phr	"Bow Out (of)" - bow low to a customer or a visitor as one leaves his presence.
Bow	phr	"By the Stringer Rather Than the Bow" - by the most direct way.
Bow	phr	'Come to Bow" - to be compliant or submissive.
Bow	phr	"Draw a Long Bow" - to make exaggerated statements.
Bow	phr	"Have More/Two Strings to One's Bow" - to have many resources, skills or alternatives. 2. to have an additional qualification appropriate to the task.
Bow	phr	"Have Too Much of the Bow Hand" - to fail in a design. 2. to lack dexterity.
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	"Shoot with Another Bow"- to practise an art, occupation other than your own.
Bow	Phr	"Take A Bow" - to receive recognition.
Bow	phr	"The Bent of One's Bow" - one's intentions, inclinations, disposition.
Bow	phr	"To Unstring the Bow Will Not Heal the Wound" -lamenatation for the loss of a wife is poor satisfaction.
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, conviviality.
Bowl	phr	"Be in a Fish Bowl" - be very open to view.
Bowl	vb	To curve, crook, hence bowled, bowled.
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.
Bowlful	adj	As much as a bowl could hold.
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.
Bowman's-root	n	Name given to certain plants, as 'gillenia trifolata"; euphorbia corollata, incardia alternifolia.'
Bow-shape	n	Having the shape of a bow.
Bow shot	n	THe distance to which a bow can send an arrow.
Bowsprit	n	Sprout-pole.
Bowstring	n	The string of an archer's bow.
Bowstring	vb	To strangle with a bow string.
Bow-tie	n	A necktie in the form of a bow.
Bow-window	n	A curved bay window.
Bow-wise	adj	In the form or figure of a bow.
Bowyer	n	One who makes or trades in bows. 2. a bower.
Bowyer God	phr	Cupid.
Box	n	Late Old English, probably from late Latin buxis, from Latin pyxis ‘boxwood box’, from Greek puxos (see box): a 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 cricketers to protect their genitals. 5. a cavity made in the trunk of a tree to collect its sap. 6. the box tree.
Box	n	Television or "The Box"
Box	phr	"Be in the Same Box" - (colloq) to be in the same box; to be in similar (unhappy) predicament.
Box	phr	"Box In" - prevent somebody from going faster, manuoeuvring etc by surrounding them on all sides.
Box	phr	"Be in a Box Seat" - be in a very powerful position to control activity.
Box	phr	"Be On One's Soap Box" - speak freely on issues about which one keenly feels.
Box	phr	"Box Up" - confine in a small space.
Box	phr	"I Got Into the Wrong Box - I am out of my element or in a wrong place or false position.
Box	phr	"One Out of the Box" - an excellent person or thing.
Box	phr	"Put One Back In Their Box" - make it clear to a person that his views are not welcome.
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.
Box girder	n	A hollow girder square in cross-section.
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, when Christmas boxes were given to servants.
Box stall	n	A large, boxed-in stall for horses or cattle, in which they do not have to be tied.
Box wood	n	The wood of a box tree, esp. used by engravers for the fineness of its grain and for is hardness.
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.