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Show BO BO Of covert clofe, where fcarce a fpeck of da Falls on the lengthen'd gloom, protradted fweeps 9o Bowck The whole city fhall flee, for the noife of th horfemen and bozomen Thomfon See 70 BougE nifies, according to Funius, any thin made of horn, as drinking cups anciently were. It is pronounced éole.] 1. A veflel to hold liquids, rather wid than deep ; dittinguithed from a cup which is rather deep than wide original with 4ou/z, bat found in no othe paflage. bow! of water, a loadftone, in a boat of cork, wil - The beafts of life, and in full boww/s receiv The ftreaming blood Dryden While the bright Sein, t* exalt the foul thence tumbled headlong into the pond; where ftrong fellow toffed him up and down, until th patient, by foregoing his ftrength; had fomewha forgot his fury: but if there appeared fmall amendment, he was bow/ffened again and again while there remained in him any hope of life, fo recovery ~ With fparkling plenty crowns the o/ ~ And wit and focial mirth infpires Fenton to Lord Gowwer 2. The hollow part of any thing If you are allowed a large filver fpoon for th BOWL. . /. [boule, Fr as cow, howl. A roun may be rolled along the ground Like to a bozv/ upon a fubtile ground T've tumbled paft the throw Shakefpeare How finely doft thou times and feafons fpin And make a twift checker'd with night and day Which, as it lengthens, winds and winds us in As bowls go on, but turning all the way. Herbert Like him, wh cipice, either m the top, but rowl Men may mak and a game at whifk in the winter _Thoug bosvl, ma that piece of wood be made fquare yet taken away, it is no longer a boww/ is no if roundnef b 1 1. To roll as a bowl ¢ and agai whence their name Ba'wier. # /. [fro plays at bowls b th fro bein Bo'wLiNG-GREEN. 7. green. [from &oaw!/ an A level piece of ground, kept {mooth for bowlers A bowl equally, poifed, and thrown.upcn a plai Bentley to hold any thing Ther as to fink i Miller It is diftinguifhe fro the greaser will b unde in letters and papers it a box, of which the ke will be kept in my cuftody, to receive fuch paper as are dropped into it Steele This catket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box Pope 2. The cafe of the mariners compafs -3. The cheft into which money given is a cheek Welh. blow on the head given with the hand For the box o' th' ear that the prince gave you be gave it like a rude prince Shakefpeare If one fhould take my hand perforce, and giv another a box on the ear with it, the law punifheth the other Bramball There may happe from a box on the ear concuflions of the brai Wifeman's Surgerys Olphis, the fitherman, received a box on the ea from Theftylis Addifon's Speétator 70 Box. w. z. [from the noun. with the fift To figh The afs very fairly looked on, till they had doxe themfelves a-weary, and the the lurch A leopard is like a cat; h feet, as a cat doth her kitlins The fighting with a man' brandithing two fticks, loade left them fairly i L' Efirange boxes'with his foreGrezw thadow confifts in with plugs of lead put He hat ha fix duels an four-and-twent Spetiator 70 Box. w. a. To ftrike with the fift Bo'xEN. n. /. [from box. 1. Made of box The young gentlemen learned, before all othe things, to defign upon tablets of boxen wood. Dryd.As lads and laffes ftood around, To hear my boxen hautboy found Gay, 2. Refembling box Her faded checks are chang'd to doxen hue And in her eyes the tears are ever news. Dryden Bo'xer . / [fro fights with his fift box.] A ma whe BOY. #. /. [bub, Germ: The etymology isnot agreed on. 1. A male child'; not a girl The ftreets of the city fhall-be full of &oys an girls playing Zechariab 2. One in the ftate of adolefcence; olde than an infant, yet not. arrived at puberty or manhood Speak thou, 4oy Perhaps thy childithnefs will move him mor Than can our reafons Shakefpeare's Coriolanuss Sometimes forgotten things, long caft behind Ruth forward in the brain, and come to mind The nurfe's legends are for truths receiv'd And the man dreams-but what the oy believ'd Dryden 3. A word of contemp for young men, a noting their immaturity Men of worth and parts will not eafily admit.th familiarity of boys, who yet need the care of a tutor Lacke The pale doy fenator yet tingling ftands And holds his breeches clofe with both his hands 70 Box. v. z. [from the neun. as a boy Pope To treat Anthon Shall be brought drunkenforth, and T fhall fe Some fqueaking Cleopatra boy my greatnefs I th' pofture of a whore, Shakefpeare Bo'ynoop. 7 /. [from 4oy.] The ftate ofSo many more, fo every one was us'd b th pa o li i w i h we ar Spenfer. That to give largely to the box refus'd bo s This.is perhaps an arbitrar 4. The feats in the playhoufe; where- the word ladies are placed If you fhould look at hims in his boyha Bo'wumax. . / [from Zow and man.}. An|Z -archer ; he that fhoots wiatbo hw, maker A cafe made of wood, or other matter mouth, which fhall tak bo'wling-grcen, will run neceflarily in a dire& line L and ponderous en A beggarly account of empty boxes Shakefpeare The lion's head is to open a moft wide voraciou Woodward bowl.] He tha the bowling bridle 'The ufe of th bowling is to make the fails ftand thar or clofe to a wind Harris inftrumen fo About his fhelve water of the outfide of a fail; it is faftened i three or four parts of the fail, calle ufefu A magnet, though put in an ivory dox, will through the dox, fend forth his embracing virtu to a beloved needle Sidney Bo'wrine. }n.fi [fea term.] A rope fafBo'wLine. tenéd to the middle par i t mathematica is ver It is fuppofed to have its name from th box wood Bo'wrper-stowes. n /. Lumps or fragtumble an from cheft, as the / Alas ! T had rather be fet quick i' th' earth And bow?'d to death with turnips Merry Wiwves of Windfor gravers The woo Box. #. /. [box, Sax. bufte, Germ. 70 Bowr. . a. [from the noun. ‘the adjacent cliffs, rounded b veflels It will increafe of flips fet in March, or abeu Bartholomew tide ; and will profper on cold barre hills, where nothing elfe will grow Mortimer Watts's Logick ments of ftones or marble, brok of th eafily kept in order, with one clippin in the year ‘2. "To pelt with any thing rolled one that ufes the bow There are two forts ; the dwarf box, and a talle fort. The dwarf box is good for borders, and i Dennis's Let whic 7. /. [from boaw. being fo hard, clofe water would lodge a bozv/ upon a prepraife falls back, or ftays not o over Dryden a game at bow/s in the fummer [bock boxing matches, in defence of his majefty's title of the bow be hel Bacon The leaves are pennated, and evergreen; it hat male flowers, that are produced at remote diftance from the fruit, on the fame tree; the fruit i thaped like a porridge-pot inverted, and is divide into three cells, containing two feeds in each which, when ripe, are caft forth by the elafticit mafs, whic n. / upon a bowftring, if the hor to the ear 2. One whofe trade is to make bows BOX. #. /. [box, Saxon; buxus, Lat. Alliree It is pronounce BOX Saift this gives a man all the pleafure of boxing, withou the blows Speciator Call for vengeance from the bowyer king. Dryd But the main matter is {o to convey the water as it never ftay either in the dowv/ or in the ciftern Bacon Bux'd in a chair, the beau impatient fits While fpouts run clatt'ring o'er the roof by fits He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowfring and the little hangman dare not fhoot at him Shakefpeare Sound will be conveyed to the ear, by firikin I. An archer Savif 3. A bafin, or fountain Carew's Surwvey of Cornwall Bo'wyERr kitchen, let half the dow/ of it be worn out wit continual feraping to foak Bo'wsTRING. 7. /. [from bow and ftring. The ftring by which the bow 1s kep bent make unto it Brown The facred priefts, with ready knives, bereav To drench The water fell into a clofe walled plot; upo this wall was the frantick perfon fet, and fro Give me a bow!/ of wine I have not that alacrity of {pirit « Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have Shakefpeare If a piece of iron be faftened on the fide of Feremiab, iv. 29 Bo'wseriT. 7. /. [from the dow of thip.] This word is generally fpel boltfprit 5 which fee 7o Bo'wssen. @. a. [probably of the fam BOWL. 7. [, [buclin, Welth; which fig i BO *Tis left to you; the boxes ‘and. the~pi Are fovereign judges of this fort of wit D.r_ya'en SHe glares in balls, front baxes, and tl_'xe ring A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched thing. Pope Box. . a. [from the noun. clofe-in a box 'To in d through the magnifying end of a perfpetive, and in his manhood, through the other, it would b impoflible to fpy any. difference: the fame air the fame ftrut Sseift Bo'y1sH. adj. [from oy.] 1. Belonging to a boy. Tra |