BLOME, _vb._ to flourish, successfully resist. Douglas, IV, 58, 25. "No wound nor wapyn mycht hym anis effeir, forgane the speris so butuus blomyt he." Small translates "show himself boastfully." The word _blómi_ in O.N. used metaphorically means "prosperity, success." BLOUT, BLOWT, _adj._ bare, naked, also forsaken. Douglas, III, 76, 11; IV, 76, 6. O.N. _blautr_, Norse _blaut_, see Cl. and V. The corresponding vowel in O.E. is _ea_: _blēat_. The O.N. as well as the N.N. word means "soft." The O.E. word means "wretched." In Sco. _blout_ has coincided in meaning with _blait_. The Dan. word _blot_ is, on account of its form, out of the question. BODIN, _adj._ ready, provided. Douglas, III, 22, 24; Dunbar, 118, 36; Wyntoun, VII, 9, 213. From _boðinn_, _boðja_ (E.D.D.). BOLAX, _sb._ hatchet. Jamieson. O.N. _bolöx_, a poleaxe, Norse _bolöks_, O. Sw. _bolöxe_, _bolyxe_, O. Dan. _bulöx_, Dano- Norse _bulaks_. Ormulum _bulaxe_ (see further Brate). BOLE, _sb._ the trunk of a tree. Isaiah, 44, 19. O.N. _bolr_, the trunk of a tree, Norse _bol_, _bul_, O. Sw. _bol, bul_, Sw. dial. _bol_ id. BOLDIN, _vb._ to swell. Douglas, II, 52; I, II, 130, 25. Norse _bolna_, older _bolgna_, Dan. _bolne_, M.E. _bollen_ (also _bolnin_). The Sco. word has developed an excrescent _d_ after _l_. In Lindsay, 127, 3885, _boildin_, adj. pp. swollen. BOLLE, _sb._ a measure. Bruce, III, 221; Wyntoun, VII, 10, 519, 521, 523. O.N. _bolli_, a vessel, _blotbolli_, a measure, Sw. _bulle_. Rather than from O.E. _bolla_ (Eng. _bowl_). BOUN, _adj._ bent upon, seems to have almost the idea of "compelled to." Gol. and Gaw. 813. O.N. _búinn_. See Wall under _bound_, and Cl. and V. under _bua_ B. II. BOUNE, _vb._ to prepare, to prepare to go, to go. Houlate, I, 23; Poet. R. 107, I; Gol. and Gaw. 59, 13, 40. See _bown_. BOWDYN, _pp. adj._ swollen. Dunbar T.M.W. 41, 345; Montg. F. 529. See _boldin_. BOWK, _sb._ trunk of the body, body. Dunbar, 248, 25; Rolland, II, 343. O.N. _búkr_, the trunk, the body, Norse _būk_, Dan. _bug_, O. Sw. _buker_. Specific Scand. usage. O.E. _būc_, like O.F. _buk_ and Germ. _bauch_, meant "belly." BOW, _sb._ a fold for cows. Douglas, III, 11, 4. O.N. _ból_, a place where cows are penned, also den, lair or lying-place of beasts. Norse _bol_, Shetland _bol_, _bøl_, a fold for cattle. In Psalms XVII, 12, _bole_ occurs in the sense of "a lion's den." BOWN, _adj._ ready, prepared. L.L. 1036. O.N. _búinn_. Not Eng., but a loanword from O.N., and as Kluge P.G.(2)I, 939, has pointed out shows also Norse influence in the Midland dial.