bolden (A.S.) _to encourage, embolden_ bole (A.S.) _a bull_ bolk (A.S.) 100, _a belching_ bolle (A.S.) 83, 99, _a bowl_ bollen, bolne (A.S.) _to swell_. _pres. s._ bolneth, 84 book, _pl._ bokes (A.S.) _a book_ boold (A.S.) 373, _bold_ boon (A.S.) _a bone_ boor (A.S.) _a boar_ boot (A.S.) _a boat_ boote (A.S.) 70, 139, 189, 209, 233, 266, _help, reparation, amendment, restoration, remedy_ bootne (A.S.) _to restore, remedy_. _part. pas._ bootned, 128 boot-les (A.S.) 369, _without boots_ borde (A.S.) _table_. Hence the modern use of the word _board_ when we speak of "_board and lodging_" bord-lees (A.S.) 239, _without table_ borgh, 70, 143, 181, 346. borugh, 426, 439, _pl._ borwes, 19 (A.S.) _a pledge, surety_. _s. in obj. case_, borwe, 285 borwen (A.S.) 71, _to give security, or a pledge to release a person or thing, to bail, to borrow_. _pret. s._ borwed bosarde (A.N.) 189, _a worthless or useless fellow_. It is properly the name of a worthless species of hawk, which is unfit for sporting; and is thus used in Chaucer's version of the Romance of the Rose, l. 4033:-- This have I herde ofte in saying, That man ne maie for no daunting Make a sperhawke of _a bosarde_. The original is,-- Ce oï dire en reprovier, Que l'en ne puet fere espervier En nule guise _d'ung busart_. bosten (A.S.) _to boast_. _part. past_, y-bosted, 351 bote-lees (A.S.) 381, _without remedy_ botenen (A.N.) _to button_. +_part. past_, y-botend, 468, _buttoned_ bothe (A.S.) _both_. The genitive, botheres, _of both_, occurs. hir botheres myghtes, 340, _the might of both of them_. hir botheres right, 371, _the right of each of them_. botrasen (A.N.) 113, _to make buttresses to a building_ bouchen (A.N.) 5, _to stop people's mouths (?)_ bouken (A.S.) 274, 306, _to buck (clothes)_ bour (A.S.) _a bower, chamber_ bourde (A.S.) _a game, joke_ bourdynge (A.N.) 297, _jesting_ bourn, _g._ bournes (A.S.) _a stream or river_ bowe (A.S.) 112, _a bough, branch_ bown (A.S.) 37, _ready_ boy (A.S.) 6 (?) boye (A.S.) 214, _a lad servant_ breden (A.S.) _to breed_. _pret. pl._ bredden brede (A.S.) _breadth_ breed (A.S.) _bread_ breeth (A.S.) 388, _breath_ breken (A.S.) _to break, tear_. _pret. s._ brak, 388. _part. pas._ y-broken, broke, y-broke, 416 breme (A.S.) 241, _vigorous, fierce, furious_. Chaucer, C. T. l. 1701, speaking of Arcite and Palamon, says they--"foughten breme, as it were bolles two," _fought as fiercely as two bulls_. In the Romance of Sir Amadas (Weber, p. 250) a person is described as coming "lyke a breme bare," _like a fierce boar_. It appears to be most commonly applied to animals. In the Towneley Mysteries, p. 197, Anna says to Cayphas, "Be not to breme," _be not too fierce_ brennen, brenne (A.S.) 360, _to burn_. _pret. s._ brende, 367. _part. pas._ brent bresten (A.S.) _to burst_, _pret. s._ brast, 127 brevet (A.N.) 5, _a little brief or letter_ brewestere (A.S.) 14, 47, _a woman who brews_