_Bombast-poetry_, in Words of lofty Sound and humble Sense. _Bone_, c. to Apprehend, _Seize_, Take or Arrest. _I’ll Bone ye_, c. I’ll cause you to be Arrested. _We shall be Bon’d_, c. we shall be Apprehended for the Robbery. _The Cove is Bon’d and gon to the Whit_, c. the Rogue is taken up and carried to Newgate, or any other Gaol. _The Cull has Bon’d the Fen_, (for _Fence_) _or Bloss that bit the Blow_, c. the Man has Taken the Thief that Robb’d his House, Shop, or Pickt his Pocket. _He has bit his Blow, but if he be Bon’d, he must shove the Tumbler_, c. he has Stole the Goods, or done the Feat, but if he be Taken, he’ll be Whipt at the Cart-tail. _I have Bon’d her Dudds Fagg’d, and Brush’d_, c. I have took away my Mistress Cloathes, Beat her, and am troop’d off. _Boning the Fence_, c. finding the Goods where Conceal’d, and Seizing, _he made no bones of it_, he swallow’d it without Drinking after it. _Bonny-clapper_, sower Butter-milk. _Booby_, a dull heavy Lob. _Booberkin_, the same. _Boon_, a Gift, Reward, or Gratification. _Boon-companion_, a merry Drinking Fellow. _Boot_, a Scotch Torture, or Rack, for the Leg, is to draw to Confession. _What Boots it?_ What Avails it? _Booty-play_, false, Cheating, also Plunder, _the Bowls Booty_, when great Odds are laid, and he goes Halves, his Cast is designed by Bad. _Boracho_, a But, a Drunkard, and a Hogskin. _Borde_, c. a Shilling, _half a Borde_, c. Sixpence. _Bordel-lo_, a Bawdy-House. _Boreson or Bauson_, a Badger. _Bottle-head_, void of Wit. _Bottom_, _a Man of no Bottom_, of no Basis of Principles, or no settlement of Fortune, or of no Ground in his Art. _Let every Tub stand on it’s own Bottom_, or every one look to his own footing. _A Tale of a Tub with the Bottom out_, a sleeveless frivolous Tale. _Boughs_, _he is up in the Boughs, or a top of the House_, of one upon the Rant, or in a great Ferment. _Bounce_, to boast and vapour. _A meer Bounce_, a Swaggering Fellow. _Bouncer_, c. a Bully. _Bout_, a Tryal, Act, Essay. _Bowse_, c. Drink, or to Drink, see _Benbowse_ and _Rumbowse_. _Bowsy_, c. Drunk. _We Bows’d it about_, we Drank damn’d hard. _Bowsingken_, c. an Ale-house. _The Cul tipt us a Hog, which we melted in Rumbowse_, c. the Gentleman gave us a Shilling, which we spent in Strong Drink. _Box_, to Fight with the Fists. _Box it about Boys_, Drink briskly round. _In a wrong Bow_, of one that has taken wrong measures, or made false steps. _A pretty Box_, a Compleat little House, also a small drinking place. _Bracket-face_, Ugly, Homely, Illfavor’d. _Bragget_, Meed, and Ale sweetned with Honey. _Brag_, _Braggadocio_, A vapouring, Swaggering, Bullying Fellow. _Brat_, a little Child. _Branchers_, Canary-Birds of the first Year. _Bravado_, a Vapouring, or Bouncing. _Bravo_, a Mercenary Murderer, that will Kill any Body. _Brawl_, Squabble, or Quarrel. _To Brangle, and Brawl_, to Squabble and Scold. _Brazen-fac’d_, Bold, Impudent, Audacious.