TO BOLT. To run suddenly out of one's house, or hiding place, through fear; a term borrowed from a rabbit-warren, where the rabbits are made to bolt, by sending ferrets into their burrows: we set the house on fire, and made him bolt. To bolt, also means to swallow meat without chewing: the farmer's servants in Kent are famous for bolting large quantities of pickled pork. BONES. Dice. BONE BOX. The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth. BONE PICKER. A footman. BONED. Seized, apprehended, taken up by a constable. CANT. BOLUS. A nick name for an apothecary. BONESETTER. A hard-trotting horse. BOOBY, or DOG BOOBY. An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow. See CLODHOPPER and LOUT. A bitch booby; a country wench. BOOBY HUTCH. A one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle. BOOKS. Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner. BOOK-KEEPER. One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out of debt. BOOT CATCHER. The servant at an inn whose business it is to clean the boots of the guest. BOOTS. The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snuff the candles, and ring the bell. See SKINK.--To ride in any one's old boots; to marry or keep his cast-off mistress. BOOTY. To play booty; cheating play, where the player purposely avoids winning. BO-PEEP. One who sometimes hides himself, and sometimes appears publicly abroad, is said to-play at bo-peep. Also one who lies perdue, or on the watch. BORACHIO. A skin for holding wine, commonly a goat's; also a nick name for a drunkard. BORDE. A shilling. A half borde; a sixpence. BORDELLO. A bawdy house. BORE. A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781. BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH. A nick name for a taylor. BOTHERED or BOTH-EARED. Talked to at both ears by different persons at the same time, confounded, confused. IRISH PHRASE. BOTHERAMS. A convivial society. BOTTLE-HEADED. Void of wit. BOTTOM. A polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatigue; as a bottomed horse. Among bruisers it is used to express a hardy fellow, who will bear a good beating. BOTTOMLESS PIT. The monosyllable. BOUGHS. Wide in the boughs; with large hips and posteriors. BOUGHS. He is up in the boughs; he is in a passion. TO BOUNCE. To brag or hector; also to tell an improbable story. To bully a man out of any thing. The kiddey bounced the swell of the blowen; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl. BOUNCER. A large man or woman; also a great lie.