Blysned, shone, A. 1048. Blyþe, joy, A. 354. Blythe is still used as a noun in the North of England. Blyþely, joyfully, A. 385. Bobaunce, boasting, Fr. _bobance_, B. 179, 1712. {Bod, Bode,} command, B. 979; C. 56. A.S. _bod_, _gebod_, command, precept, message. “_Bode_ or massage (_boode_, H.) nuncium.” (Prompt. Parv.) Bod = abode, _pret._ of _bide_ = abide, A. 62; B. 982; wait for, B. 467. Bodworde, message, B. 473. See T. B. 6262. Bodyly, A. 478. Boffet, blast, B. 885. Boffeteȝ, buffets, blows, A. 809; _boffet_, B. 43. Bok-lered, book-learned, B. 1551. Bold, bad, A. 806. A.S. _báld_, audacious. Sw. _båld_, proud, haughty, warlike. In early English writers the term was applied indifferently to men and women of bad character. “Þou do me bote again þis _bald_ (bad one) For al þe soth I haf þe tald.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 48b.) Bol, bull, B. 1682; _pl._ _boleȝ_, B. 55. Bole, the round stem of a tree, B. 622. It enters also into composition in the word _throte_-bolle. _Pl._ _bolleȝ_, A. 76. Icel. _bolr_. Dan. _bul_. Sw. _bål_, trunk of a man’s body. See T. B. 4960. Bolle, bowl, B. 1145, 1511. A.S. _bolla_. Icel. _bolli_. Bolled, embossed, B. 1464. Bolnande, swelling, B. 179. Bolne, swell, A. 18; B. 363. Icel. _bolgna_. Sw. _bulna_, to swell. In some early English works we find _bollen_ (ibolȝe) the _p.p._ of a verb _bolȝe_ = bulge, swell. “Bolnyn, Tumeo, turgeo, tumesco.” (Prompt. Parv.) Bonc, bank, A. 907. Bone, prayer, petition, command (= boon). A. 912, 916; B. 826. A.S. _ben_. S.Sax. _bone_. O.N. _bón_ rogatio. “_Bone_ or graunte of prayer (_boone_ P.) Precarium, peticio.” (Prompt. Parv.) Bone, good, B. 28. {Boner, Bonere,} good, B. 733. Bonerté, goodness, A. 762. Bongre, willingly, agreeably to, C. 56. See _Gre_. Bonk, bank, hill, A. 931, B. 379. Ger. _bank_, bench, bank of a river, etc. Bor, bower, chamber, dwelling, A. 964. A.S. _bur_, a chamber. Icel. _bur_. N.Prov.E. _boor_, a parlour. Bore, born, A. 239, B. 584. Borde, table, B. 1433, 1717. Borde, board of a vessel, B. 470; C. 211. Boreȝ, boars, B. 55. Borges, burgess; sometimes written _burgeise_, C. 366. O.Fr. _bourgeois_, from Lat. _burgensis_. Borgoun, to burgeon, bud forth, B. 1042. Fr. _bourgeon_, _bourjon_, young bud or sprig. Prov. Fr. _boure_, bud. Fr. _abourioner_, to bud or sprout forth. See T. B. 4964. Borlych, burly, B. 1488. Borne = burne, stream, water, B. 482; _borneȝ heued_, head of the stream, source, A. 974. A.S. _burne_. Goth. _brunna_. Icel. _brunnr_. G. _born_, _brunnen_, well, spring. Bornyst, burnished, A. 77, 220, B. 554. Fr. _brunir_, to polish. Boroȝt = broȝt, brought, A. 628. {Borȝ, Borȝe,} city, town, A. 957, 989, B. 45, 834, 1750. A.S. _burg_, _burh_. Goth. _baurgs_. Icel. _borg_. Bos = bus = behoves, B. 687. Bosk, take, B. 351; _boske_ to, go to, B. 834. See _Busk_.