Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pommel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks. S. Butler, _Hudibras_, ii. 3. BONAS'SUS, an imaginary wild beast, which the Ettrick shepherd encountered. (The Ettrick shepherd was James Hogg, the Scotch poet.)--_Noctes Ambrosianae_ (No. xlviii., April, 1830). BONAVENTU'RE _(Father)_, a disguise assumed for the nonce by the chevalier Charles Edward, the pretender.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). BONDU'CA or BOADICE'A, wife of Præsutagus king of the Ice'ni. For the better security of his family, Præsutagus made the emperor of Rome co-heir with his daughters; whereupon the Roman officers took possession of his palace, gave up the princesses to the licentious brutality of the Roman soldiers, and scourged the queen in public. Bonduca, roused to vengeance, assembled an army, burnt the Roman colonies of London, Colchester [_Camalodunum_], Verulam, etc., and slew above 80,000 Romans. Subsequently, Sueto'nius Paulinus defeated the Britons, and Bonduca poisoned herself, A.D. 61. John Fletcher wrote a tragedy entitled _Bonduca_ (1647). BONE-SETTER _(The)_, Sarah Mapp (died 1736). BO'NEY, a familiar contraction of Bo'naparte (3 _syl_.), used by the English in the early part of the nineteenth century by way of depreciation. Thus Thom. Moore speaks of "the infidel Boney." BONHOMME (_Jacques_), a peasant who interferes with politics; hence the peasants' rebellion of 1358 was called _La Jacquerie_. The words may be rendered "Jimmy" or "Johnny Goodfellow." BON'IFACE (_St._), an Anglo-Saxon whose name was Winifrid or Winfrith, born in Devonshire. He was made archbishop of Mayence by pope Gregory III., and is called "The Apostle of the Germans." St. Boniface was murdered in Friesland by some peasants, and his day is June 5 (680-755). ... in Friesland first St. Boniface our best, Who of the see of Mentz, while there he sat possessed, At Dockum had his death, by faithless Frisians slain. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxiv. (1622). _Bon'iface_,(_Father_), ex-abbot of Kennaquhair. He first appears under the name of Blinkhoodie in the character of gardener at Kinross, and afterwards as the old gardener at Dundrennan. (_Kennaquhair_, that is, "I know not where.")--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). _Bon'iface_ (_The abbot_), successor of the abbot Ingelram, as Superior of St. Mary's Convent.--Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth). _Boni'face_, landlord of the inn at Lichfield, in league with the highwaymen. This sleek, jolly publican is fond of the cant phrase, "as the saying is." Thus, "Does your master stay in town, as the saying is?" "So well, as the saying is, I could wish we had more of them." "I'm old Will Boniface; pretty well known upon this road, as the saying is." He had lived at Lichfield "man and boy above eight and fifty years, and not consumed eight and fifty ounces of meat." He says: