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Show BO e p r f n k m T s n b n k m T 4 ar w g d o f k t o p a met dily fwallows meat that has no benes o t o d m s i b b o fo s n 5. B ter bones, for weaving bonelace 6. Bones. ~Dice But then my ftudy was to cog the dice And dext'roufly to throw the lucky fice To thun ames ace, that fwept my ftakes away And watch the box, for fear they thould conve Falfe dones, and put upon me in the play. Dryden To tak 99 BoNE, w.a. [from the noun. the fleth ; as, th out the bones fro cooks boned the veal fuch as wome the maft, or in order to make more wa wear on their linen We deftroy the fymmetry of the human figure and foolifhly contrive to call off the eye from grea and real beauties, to childifh gewgaw ribbands an Spectator bonelace Wantin Bo'~NELESS. adj. [from bore. baness Have pluckt my nipple from his bonelefs gums " Shakefpeare And dafht the brains out reftor [from boze and fer. to it a bone out of join place; or join a bon other part broken to th Bo'NESETTER. z./. [from borefet.] A chirurgeon ; one who particularly profefle the art of reftoring broken or luxate bones At prefent my defire is to have a good Zoncfetter of a drum range abou of bull-beef he peruke, her bougrace, and chaplet Hakewill on Providence Bo'NNET. 7. f. [bonet, Fr.] A coverin for the head; a hat; a cap ol place before th outwork, having at the head three falian angles, and two inwards Bo'~wers [In the fea language.] Smal Aails fet on the courfes on the mizzen word fo coward a con which h natu BOOK. #. /. [boc, Sax. fuppofed from boc " a beech, becaufe they wrote on beeche boards ; as Ziber, in Latin, from th rind of a tree. . A volume in which we read or write Sez a book of prayer in his hand True ornaments to know a holy man. Shakefpeare Receive the fentence of the law for fins Such as by God's book are adjudg'd to death. Sha In the coffin that had the books, they were foun as freth as if they had been but newly written being written on parchment, andcovered over wit watch candles of wax Bacon Books are a fort of dumb teachers; they canno anfwer fudden queftions, or explain prefent doubts this is properly the work of a living inftruor Watts ancientl angles of the glacis Bo'NNET 4 preffre, or prieft's cap, is a Scottit Prior Young mafter next muft rife to fill him wine And ftarve himfelf to fee the boody dine King A kind o points of the falian Siinner ima T'll make him yield the crown Whofe bookifp rule hath pull'd fair England down Shakefpeare I''m not bookifh, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the *fcape. Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Xantippe follows her namefake ; being marrie to a bookifp man, wh world 2. A particular part of a work The firft book we divide into fections ; whereo the firt is thefe chapters paft This lif is nobler than attending for a bauble n knowledge of th Spectator learned.] Verf{ed in books, or literature a term implying fome {light contempt ‘Whate'er thefe bookicarn'd blockheads fay Solon's the verieft fool in all the play Dryden He will quote paffages out of Plato and Pindar at his own table, to fome book/earned companion without bluthing Saift BookLe arNIiNG. 7 /. [from book an learning.] Skill in literature; acquaintance with books : a term of fome contempt The migh talle o booklearning -wha the would, but he never faw more unfeaty fellows:tha great clerks Sidney Neither does it fo much require book/earning an fcholarfhip, as good natural fenfe, to diftinguit true and falfe, and to difcern what is well proved and what is not Burnet's Theory Bo'okMaN. #. /. [from book and man.] man whofe profeffion is the ftudy o books This civil war of wits were much better us' Burnet's Theory 3. The regifter in which a trader keeps a account of his debts ha Bo'oxkisuNEss.n /. [from dooki/h.] Muc application to books; over-ftudioufnefs BookLE'ARNED. adj. [from book an But one exception to this fact we find That booky Phaon only was unkind An ill-bred boatman, rough as waves and wind little ravelin, without any ditch, havin feet high ridiculouily Pope Bo"okisH. adj. [from &ook.] Given t books ; acquainted only with books. I is generally ufed contemptuouily rally deduces boody : but the original o bowbard is not known.] A dull, heavy ftupid fellow ; a lubber Adion is eloquence Shakefpeare's Coriolanus They had not prebably the ceremony of vailin the bonnet in their falutations; for, in medals they ftill have it on their heads Addifon a parapet thre Ray temptible fellow5 fro And thus far having ftretch'd it, here be with them Thy knee bufling the ftones; for, in fuch bufinefs [In fortification. calle Spanifh. Fuaius finds bowbard to be a Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand, Bo'nyeT The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read ‘With loads of learned lumber in his head With his own tongue fill edifies his ears And always lift'ning to himfelf appears hea gines it to be derived from 4oéo, foolifh . Gay cawl th Bo'ory. 7 /. [a word of no certain etymology. Hen/baw thinks it a corruptio South he lik ftretche 2. Full of bones fhe had abufed and deceive in row an pearls Bo'okFuL. adj. [from beok and fu/l.] Ful of notions gleaned from books ; crowde with undigefted knowledge faftene therefore, by anatomifts an tympanume Bo'NGRrRACE. n. [, [bonne grace, Fr.] forehead-cloth, or covering for the forehead. Not now ufed Skinner an A fpecies o MAGNUM. ». / to a round bonty limb How came fo many bonfires to be made in quee emerald Savift At the end of this hole is 2 membrane Spenfer all over wit or any part of his affairs, with clearnef and expedition Harris BookBINDER. 7. /. [from book and bind. A man whofe profeflion it is to cove books 1. Confifting of bones Ring ye the bells to make it wear away her people Fuil foon by bonfire, and by bell We learnt our liege was pafling well Book-keerinG. n f. [from &ook an keep.] The art of keeping accounts, o recording pecuniary tranfaétions, in fuc a manner, that at any time a man ma thereby know the true ftate of the whole Bo'~y. adj. [from bone. Bo'NFIRE. . /. [from bon, good, Fr. an fire.] A fire made for fome public caufe of triumph or exultation And benfires make all day reft of this day's deeds; or I will have it in a particular ballad elfe, with mine own pi¢ture on th top of i Shakefpeare He made wilful murder high treafon ; he caufe the marchers to éook their men, for whom the fhould make anfwer Dawies on Ireland Ireland for {four buttermilk BO'NU plum To re 1 befeech your grace, let it be dooked with th BOoNNY-CLABBER. 7. /i "A word ufed i who for hire fpend thei 70 Book. v. a. [from the noun. gifter in a book 3. Itfeems tobe generally ufed in converAation for plump... Who votes for manors bu life in*their birth, and may have public audienc Hookir but ence Then figh not {o, but let them go,* And be you blithe and bonny Shake[cpare . We fcorn, for want of tallk, to jabbe Of parties o'er our bonny-clabber Nor are we ftudious to enquire read they abhor in the church fermons without book, fermons whic frolickfome; cheerful 2. Gay ; merry blithe Denbam I have feen her befe -Sermon Ev'n of the bonny beak he lov'd {o well. Shakefp Thus wail'd the louts in melancholy ftrain Gay Till bonny Sufan fped acrofs the plain Wifeman's Surgery tending to boncfetting days? Why 5. Without book. By memory ; by repetition ; without reading And made a prey for carrion kites and crow A fractured leg fet im the country by one pre Mary' he left me the lamp by which he ufed to write hi lucubrations Addifon to th confine is a word now almof Scottifh dialeét. 1. Handfome ; beautiful I would, while it was {miling in my face T T was fo much in bis books, that, at his deceafe Bo'swiLy. adv. [from bonny.] Gayly handfomely; plumply n /. [from bonny.] Gayety Bo'xn1nNEss handfomenefs; plumpnefs BO'NNY. adj. [from bon, bonne, Fr. I of bones.] Flaxen-lace w.n Chambers in calm weather In kind remembrance 4+ In books Match to match I have encounter'd him The things you follow, and make f{ongs o now, fhould be fent to knit, or fit down to bobbin Tatlers or bonelace. 70 Bo'NESET Prouder, than ruftling in unpaid-for filk Such gain the cap of him that makes them fine Yet keeps his book uncrofs'd Shakefpearc mainfail - and forefail of a fhip, whe thefe are too narrow or fhallow to cloth Bo'NELACE. 7 /. [from done and Jace 5 th bobbins with which lace is woven bein frequently mad BO BO On Navarre and his bookmen5 for here 'tis abus'd Bo'okmaTE. n / Schoolfellow Shake[peare [from book and mate. Thi |