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Show BO Bo'MBARD. 7./ [bombardus Latin. I. A great gun; a cannon now obfolete it is a wor They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge ftones into th air, which, falling down into the city, might brea down the houfes Krnolles 2. A barrel Obfolete 7o BomMBA'RD. . 4. [from the noun.] T attack with bombs A medal is firuck on the Englith failing i their attempts on Dunkirk, when they endeavoured to blow up a forty and Jbombard the town Addifon BomMBARDI‘ER. 7. /. [from bdombard. The engineer whofe employment it is t thoot bombs The bombardier toffes his ball fometimes into th midft ofa city, with a defign to fill all around hi with terrour and combuftion Tatler BoMBA'RDMENT. 7. /0 [from bombard. An attack made upon any city, b throwing bombs into it Geno is no ye fecur fro a bombardment though it is not fo expofed as formerly Bomeast'~ Addifon n. /. [bombafin, Fr. from bom A {light filke bycinus, filken, Lat. ftuff, for mourning [A ftuff of foft loof Bomea'st. 7. / texture ufed formerly to fwell the garment, and thence ufed to fignify bul or fhew without folidity.] Fuftian ; bi words, without meaning Not pedants motley tongue, foldiers bombaft Mountebanks drug-tongue, nor the terms of law Are ftrong enough preparatives to dra Donne Me to hear this Are all the flights of heroick poetry to be concluded bombaft, unnatural, and mere madnefs, be caufe they are not affected with theirexcéllencies Dryden Bo'maast. adj. [from the fubftantive. High founding ; of big found withou meaning He, as loving his own pride and purpofe Evades them with a bombaft circumftance Horribly ftuft'd with epithets of war Shakefp How to abate the vigour, or filence the bombilation of guns, a way is faid to be by borax and butter, mixt in a due proportion, which will almofi takeoff the report, and alfo the force of the charge Brown's Vulgar Errours adj [bombycinus, Lat. Silken ; made of filk BON ROBA. n. /. [Itals a fine gown. A fhewy wanton We kinew where the bona robas were. Shakefp BONA'SUS. ». /. [Lat.] A kind of buffalo or wild bull BONCHRETIEN. #. /. [French.] A fpecies of pear, {o called, probably, fro the name of a gardener BOND. #. /. [bonb, Sax. bound; it i written indifferently, in many of it See Banp. fenfes, bond, or band 2. Cords, or chains, with which any on is bound There left me, and my man, both bound to gether Till, gnawing with my teeth my Jonds afunder 1 gain'd my freedom z Ligamen tha Shakefpeare hold an thin to gether Let any one fend his contemplatio hoops, what bond he can imagine, to hold thismeilf of matter in {o clofe a preflure together to the ex "sremities of the univerfe, and fee what conceivabl OCRE term ' workma on connex 3. Unio fid Obferve, in woiking up the walls, that n of the houfe, nor any part of the walls, be brough nex th befor other th abov fee thre u the tha f it t u wrough b wal adjoinin bond goo mak an together joine al b ma Mortimer's Hu /h‘.mdry 4 [In the plural. ment ; captivity Chains I perceived to have nothin Who imprifon laid to hi charge worthy of death, or of bonds. Aéts, xxiii. 2.9 5. Cement of union ; canfe of union 3 lin of connexion Wedding is great Juno's crown O blefled bond of board and bed Shake[peare BoNDSE'RVANT. = /i [from } ond a Jerwant. A flave; a-[fil_"va,n&t withoy the liberty of quitting his ma fter An waxe if thy brother that dwellet poor, and be fold unto thee, thol[;yf;x}a:f:,n compel him to ferve as a bond-fervan BoNDsE'RVICE, 7. /. [from bond ‘anq fig wice.] "The condition of a bondferyyy flavery Lcwifi["') xXv Upon thofe did Solomon levy a tribute of ben eraice B Bo'NpSLAVE. #. /i [from d A man in flavery ; one of f faze ervile cop dition, who cannot chan e his mafey, Love enjoined fuch diligence, that no appre Love cools, brothers divide, and the dond i cracked 'twixt fon and father. Shake/p. King ._Lmr tice, no, no bond-flaves could ever be, by feap v yo tha tha d ma co al more ready a n prin or perform a contract woman the is become a bondflave 6. A writing of obligation to pay a fum Go with me to a notary, feal me ther Shakefpeare Your fingle bond What if I ne'er confent to make you mine My father's promife ties me not to time And bonds without a date, they fay, are void Diyden law by which any man i 7. Obligation - obliged Unhappy that T am ! T cannot heav My heart into my mouth: I love your majeft Shak According to my bond, no more nor lefs Take which you pleafe, it diffolves the bond Locke of government and obedience Boxp. adj.[from &ind, perhaps for bound from zebonbden; Saxon.] Captive; in fervile ftate Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether w 1 Cor. xii. 13 be bond or free Bo'NDAGE, 7. /. [from bond. 1. Captivity; imprifonment; ftate of refiraint Yo only hav me overthrow an in, m Sidney bondage confifts my glory Say, gentle princefs, would you not fuppof Your bondage happy, to be made a queen -To be a queen in bondage, is more vil Shakefpeare Than is a {flave in bafe fervility BomBiLA TION. 7. /. [from bombus, Lat. Sound ; noife ; report Bomey'cinous BO BO Our cag We make a choir, as doth the prifon'd bird Shake(p. Cymbeline And fing our bondage frecly The king, when he defign'd you for my guard Refoly'd he would not make my bondage hard. Dryd 2. Obligation ; tye of duty If the has a ftruggle for honour, the is in bondage to love; which gives the ftory its turn tha Pope way He muft refolve by no means to be enflaved and brought under the bordage of obferving oaths which ought to vanith when they ftand in competition with eating and drinking, or taking mo ne Bo'NpmaID and maid. South #. [ [from" bond, captive A woman {lave Good fifter, wrong me not, nor wrong yourfelf To make 2 bondmaid and a flave of me Shake/p Bo'NDMAN. n. /. [from bord and man. A man flave cefs was Al]l her ornaments dre taken away; of g frc{ Commonl here the lor 1 Mace, i, 1 the bondflawe is fed by his lord, b'u was fed by his bondflave Sir J+ Daviss Bo'xpsman. 7 /. [from bond and man, 1. A flave Carnal greedy people, without.fuch a precept would hav and beafts n merc upo thei poor bondfine Derbam z. A perfon bound, or giving fecurity, fo another Bo'npswoman. 7. /. [from dond and man.] A woman f{lave My lords, the fenator - Are fold for flaves, and their wives for bendfwwonmen Ben Fonfon's Catalin BONE. 7./. [ban, Saxon. 1. The {olid parts of the body of an animal made up of hard fibres, tied one to another by fmall tranfverfe fibres, as thof of th mufctes porous foft In a feetus they ar A and eafily difcerned their pores fill with a {ubftance of thei ow nature increafe, harden fo the and grow clofe to one another. The are all fpongy, and full of little cells or are of a confiderable firm thicknefs with a large cavity, except the teeth an wher the the articulated ar are covered with a thin and ftrong membrane, called the periofteum Each 60{3‘ is much bigger at its extremity than I the middle that the articulations migh be firm, and th of joint. But the ore fhoul allotted weight éozes not eafily pu becaufe the middlel be ftrong, to fuftai and refift accidents ou o it tl; fibres are there more clofely compa together, fupporting one another ; a the done is made hollow, and_confe quently not fo eafily broken, as it muf have been had it been folid and fmaller Quingy Amongft the Romans, in making of a bondma Thy bones are marrowlefs, thy blood is fl?@d- free, was it not wondered wherefore fo great ad fhould be made? the mafter to prefent his flav in fome court, to take him by the hand, and no IwGney .here wa; s lately a youn: g gen tleman bit to the, only to fay, in the hearing of the publick magiftrate, I will that this man become free; but after thofe folemn words uttered, to ftrike him o the cheek, to turn him round, the hair of hi head to be fhaved off, the magiftrate to touch hi thrice with a rod; in the end, a cap and a whit garment given him Hooker O freedom ! firft delight of human kind Not that which bondmen from their maftess find Dryden acheth 2. A fragment of meat; a bone with a much fleth as adheres to it Like /Efop's hounds contending for the borit Each pleaded right, and would be lord alone D):)I‘{fl 'To attack 3. To e upon the bones Pufs had a mont!'s mind 20 be upont tbelbatm le "ge 1 , but was pot wil 1111ing s to pic quarré)‘; L'E hi ;zq 4 T |