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_Ramsay._
Fr. _buie_, a water-pot or pitcher; Cotgr.
Hence,
BOWIEFU', _s._ The fill of a small tub, S.
_J. Nicol._
BOW-KAIL, _s._ Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is _buys-kool_.
_Burns._
~Bow-stock~, _s._ The same. "A b.a.s.t.a.r.d may be as good as a _bow-stock_, by a time;" S. Prov.
_Kelly._
BOWLAND, _part. adj._ Hooked, crooked.
_Douglas._
Teut. _boghel-en_, arcuare. _Bowland_ is just the part. pr.
_boghelend_, contr.
BOWLIE, BOOLIE, _adj._ Crooked, deformed; _Boolie-backit_, humpbacked; sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S.
V. ~Beugle-backed~.
Germ. _bucklig_, Dan. _bugelt_, id. from _bugle_, a bunch or hump; and this from _bug-en_, to bend; Dan. _boeyel_, crookedness, _boeyelig_, flexible.
_To_ BOWN, _v. a._ To make ready.
V. ~Boun~, _v._
BOWRUGIE, _s._ Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention; in resemblance of Fr. _bourgeois_.
_Wallace._
BOWSIE, _adj._ Crooked, S.
Fr. _bossu_, id.
BOWSUNES, _s._ Obedience.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bocsumnesse_, obedientia.
BOWT, _s._
1. A bolt, a shaft; in general.
_Chron. S. Poet._
2. A thunderbolt, S.
_Ross._
_To_ BOX, _v. a._ To wainscot, to cover with boards, S.
BOXING, s. Wainscotting; Sir J. Sinclair, p. 170., S.
BRA, BRAE, BRAY, _s._
1. The side of a hill, an acclivity, S.
_Barbour._
2. The bank of a river, S. _Breea_, A. Bor. id.
3. A hill, S.
_Ross._
4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country; as "_Bra-mar, Bra-Cat, the Braes of Angus;_" S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
_To gae down the brae_, metaph. to be in a declining state, in whatever sense; to have the losing side, S.
C. B. _bre_, a mountain, pl. _breon_, _bryn_; Gael. _bre_, _bri_, _brigh_, a hill. Isl. _braa_, cilium, the brow; whence _augnabraa_, the eye-brow; and _bratt_ signifies steep, having an ascent.
_To_ BRA, _v. n._
1. To bray.
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