Boskeȝ, bushes, B. 322. Icel. _buskr_. Bosum, bay, C. 107. Cf. N.Prov.E. _bosom_, the eddy. “Eneas and his feris on the strand Wery and forwrocht, sped thame to the nerrest land, And at the cost of Lyby arryvit he. Ane havyn place with a lang hals or entre Thar is, with an ile enveronyt on ather part, To brek the wallis and storm of every art, Within, the water in a _bosum_ gays.” --(G. Doug. vol. i. p. 33.) Bost, boast, arrogance. B. 179, 1450. Boster, boaster, B. 1499. Bostwys = busteous, boisterous, rough, fierce, A. 814. Pl. Du. _büster_, wild, fearful, savage. Cf. “_Boystows_, rudis.” (Prompt. Parv.) _Bustus_, rudis, rigidus, to be _bustus_, rudere. (Cath. Angl.) The form _bostwys_ would seem to point to _bost_, boast, as the probable root. Bot, “to bot,” to boot, B. 473. Bot, command, B. 944. A.S. _beot_, threat, promise. Bot, only, A. 18, 382, except, A. 972; _bot-if_, unless, B. 1110. Bote, saviour, A. 275, 645; remedy, safety, C. 163. A.S. _bót_, amends, atonement; _gebétan_, to make amends. Du. _boet_, remedy; _boeten_, to mend. Boþe, booth, tent, C. 441. {Boþem, Boþom,} valley, dale, B. 383, 450; pit, sea, B. 1030. _Bottom_, a valley, is still used in many of our provincial dialects, and is a frequent element in local names. A.S. _botm_, lowest point, depth, abyss. Du. _bodem_. Germ. _boden_. Icel. _botn_. Bothem, bottom, C. 144. Boþemleȝ, bottomless, B. 1022. {Bouel, Bowel,} bowel, gut, B. 1251; C. 293. Bougoun (?) B. 1416. Boun, (1) ready; (2) finished, A. 534, 992, 1103. See T. B. 827. N.Prov.E. _boun_. Icel. _bua_, to prepare, p.p. _buinn_, prepared, ready. Bounden, fastened, B. 322; bound (_p.p._ of _binde_), A. 1103. Bounet, went, _pret._ of _boun_ or _bown_, to go, B. 1398. See _boun_. See T. B. 827, 5230. “And (he) _bownnes_ over a brode mede With breth (anger) at his herte.” --(M. Arthure, p. 290.) Bounté, goodness, B. 1436. Boureȝ (bowers), chambers. B. 322. See _Bor_. Bourne = burne, man, A. 617. Bourȝ = borȝ, city, B. 1377. See _Borȝ_. Boute, without, B. 260, 824; C. 523. {Bow, Bowe,} to go, walk, literally, to bend (one’s steps). A. 126, 974; B. 45, 379, 482. “Forth heo gunnen _bugen_ In to Bruttaine.” --(Laȝ. 2, 410.) “The burd _bowet_ from þe bede.” --(T. B. 775.) A.S. _búgan_, to _bow_, _bend_, avoid, flee. Bowe, obey (bend to), C. 56, 75. Boy, a boy, youth, B. 878. Boyeȝ, boys, men of low position, servants; generally used in a bad sense, “_boyeȝ bolde_,” A. 806. “---- bot a _boye_ one (alone) Hoves by hym on a blonke (horse) and his spere holdes.” --(Morte Arthure, p. 211.) “I wende no Bretones walde bee basschede for so lyttille And fore bare-legyde _boyes_ that one the bente houys.” --(_Ibid._ p. 178.) Boȝ = bow, go, A. 196; B. 1242, 1551. See _Bow_. Boȝe, bough, B. 616, 1467.