An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 98

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BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, _s._

1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called _ewe-bucht_, S.

_Douglas._

2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.

_Statist. Acc._

Teut. _bocht_, _bucht_, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum clausum.

_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT _v. a._ To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the _s._

_Ross._

BOUCHT-KNOT, _s._ A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being _doubled_, S.

BOUGARS, _s. pl._ Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these _divots_, and then the straw or thatch, S.

_Chr. Kirk._

Lincolns. _bulkar_, a beam; Dan. _biaelke_, pl. _bielcker_, beams.

Su. G. _bialke_, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written _bolkur_.

BOUK, BUIK, _s._

1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.

A _bouk of tauch_, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.

Germ. _bauch von talge_, id.

A _bouk-louse_, one that has been bred about the body.

Teut. _beuck_, truncus corporis.

2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.

_Douglas._

3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.

_R. Bruce._

4. Size, stature, S. _bulk_; _Boukth_, bulk, Gl. Lancash.

_J. Nicol._

5. The greatest share, the princ.i.p.al part, S.

_Cleland._

_To_ BOUK, _v. n._ To bulk, S.

Hence,

BOUKIT, BOWKIT, _part. pa._

1. Large, bulky; S.

_Douglas._

2. _Boukit_ and _muckle-boukit_ are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.

BOUKSUM, BOUKY, _adj._ Of the same sense with _Boukit_, S.

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

BOUKE, _s._ A solitude.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

A. S. _buce_, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.

BOULDEN, _part. pa._ Swelled, inflated.

V. ~Boldin~.

BOULE, "Round," Rudd.

_Douglas._

Teut. _bol_, tumidus, turgidus; or _boghel_, _beughel_, curvatura semicircularis, from _bogh-en_, arcuare.

BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.

_Complaynt S._

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