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BANK smeared with blood BLOW to inflate BOARD to make advances to; accost BOB a blow, sarcasm BODGE to botch, bungle BODIKIN a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,' God's little Body BOITIER VERT green box BOLD to embolden BOLLEN swollen BOLTED sifted, refined BOLTER a sieve BOLTING-HUTCH a hutch in which meal was sifted BOMBARD a barrel, a drunkard BOMBAST padding BONA-ROBA a harlot BOOK a paper of conditions BOOT to help, to avail BOOTLESS without boot or advantage, useless BORE calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight, importance BOSKY covered with underwood BOSOM wish, heart's desire BOTS worms which infest horses BOURN a boundary A brook BRACE armour for the arm, state of defence BRACH a hound bitch BRAID deceitful BRAVE handsome, well-dressed BRAVERY finery Boastfulness BRAWL a kind of dance BREAST voice BREATHING exercising BREECHING liable to be whipt BREED-BATE a breeder of quarrels BREESE the gadfly BRIBE-BUCK a buck given away in presents BRING to attend one on a journey BROCK a badger, a term of contempt BROKE to act as a procurer BROKEN having lost some teeth by age BROKEN MUSIC the music of stringed instruments BROKER an agent BROTHERHOOD trading company BRUIT noise, report, rumour BRUSH rude assault BUCK suds or lye for washing clothes in BUCK-BASKET the basket in which clothes are carried to the wash BUCKING washing BUCK-WASHING washing in lye BUG a bugbear, a spectre BULLY-ROOK a bragging cheater BURGONET a kind of helmet BURST to break BUSKY bushy BUTT-SHAFT a light arrow for shooting at a target BUXOM oell-rounded |
