the ground, soil--in topography, a meadow; _e.g._ Gras-boden (grassy meadow); Dunkel-boden (dark meadow). It may sometimes, however, be used instead of _bant_ or _paint_--_v._ p. 18; and in Bodenburg, in Brunswick, it is a corrupt. of _Ponteburg_ (bridge town); and Bodenheim is from a personal name, like Bodensee--_v._ SEE. [Sidenote: BOGEN (Ger.),] a bend or bow--in topography, applied to the bend of a river; _e.g._ Bogen, anc. _Bogana_ (the bending river); Bogen, a town of Bavaria, on a bend of the Danube; Ellbogen or Ellenbogen, Lat. _Cubitus_ (the town on the elbow or river bend), in Bohemia; Bogenhausen (the houses on the river bend); Langen-bogen (the long bend); Entli-buch (the bend on the R. Entle), in Switzerland. [Sidenote: BOLD, BATTLE, or BOTTLE, BÜTTEL, BLOD (Teut.), BOL, or BO (Scand.),] a dwelling; _e.g._ Newbattle, Newbottle, Newbold (new dwelling), as distinguished from Elbottle (old dwelling); Morebattle (the dwelling on the marshy plain); Bolton, in Lancashire, A.S. _Botl_; Buittle, in Kirkcudbright; Newbald, Yorkshire; Harbottle (the dwelling of the army, _here_), a place in Northumberland where, in former times, soldiers were quartered; Erribold (the dwelling on the tongue of land, _eir_); Maybole, in Ayrshire, anc. _Minnibole_ (the dwelling on the mossy place, Cym.-Cel., _myswn_); Exnabul, in Shetland (a place for keeping cattle); _yxn_, Scand. (a bull or cow); Walfenbuttel (the dwelling of Ulpha); Brunsbottle (of Bruno); Ritzbüttel (of Richard); Griesenbottel (sandy dwelling); Rescbüttel (the dwelling among rushes). [Sidenote: BONUS (Lat.), BUEN (Span.), BOA, BOM (Port.),] good; _e.g._ Bonavista, Boavista (good view); Buenos-Ayres (good breezes), in South America; Buenaventura (good luck), in California. [Sidenote: BOOM (Sansc.),] _Bhuma_ (land, country); _e.g._ Birboom (the land of heroes); Arya-Bhuma (the noble land), the Sanscrit name for Hindostan. [Sidenote: BOR (Sclav.),] wood; _e.g._ Bohra, Bohrau, Borowa, Borow (woody place); Borovsk (the town in the wood); Sabor and Zaborowa (behind the wood); Borzna (the woody district); the Borysthenes, now the R. Dnieper (the woody wall), from _stena_ (a wall or rampart), the banks of the river having been covered with wood; Ratibor (the wood of the Sclavonic god Razi). [Sidenote: BRACHE (Teut.), BRAK (Scand.),] land broken up for tillage, Old Ger. _pracha_ (to plough); _e.g._ Brabant, anc. _Bracbant_ (the ploughed district); Brachstadt, Brachfeld, Brachrade (the ploughed place, field, clearing); Brakel (the ploughed land), in Holland; Hohenbrack (high ploughed land). [Sidenote: BRAND (Ger.),]