Bonne. as Borne. Bonne-grace: f. Th' vppermost flap of the down-hanging taile of a French-hood; (whence belike our Boongrace.)
Bonnement. Well, fitly, aptly, handsomely, conueniently, orderly, to the purpose.
Bonnes-dames. The hearbe Orage, or golden hearbe; also, Beets.
Bonnet: m. A bonnet, a cap. Bonnet à la cocarde. See Coquarde. Bonnet à croppiere. a square cap; a three cornerd cap Bonnet de fer. An yron scull, or sallade. Bonnet à la Marabaise. A flat cap. Bonnet de Prestre. Spindle-tree, Prick-wood, Prick-*timber; or as; Bonnet quarré. The wild cherrie which groweth on the tree whereof Butchers make their pricks. Bonnet à quatre braguettes, ou gouttieres. A (four-cornered) square cap. Bonnet verd. A fashion of greene cap which Cessionarie bankrupts were, not long ago, enioyned to weare in publique assemblies, thereby to be the better knowne and auoyded. Du temps des hauts bonnets. In old time, when men being rude and sillie, had not the wit to apparell themselues handsomely; and hence; Langage du temps des bonnets, ou des hauts bonnets. An old wiues tale; or a stale, obsolete, or ouer-worne language; a fashion of speaking thats old, and quite out of fashion. La teste prés du bonnet. Avoir la teste prés, &c; To be hot, hastie, chollerick; also, to be craftie, subtile, cunning. Prendre le bonnet. To commence Master of Arts, or take a degree; (hence) also, to take on him the gouernment of himselfe; to waiue all tutorly Iurisdiction; to refuse, or haue no need of, further tutoring. Rire sous le bonnet. To laugh in the sleeue.
Bonneter. To put off his cap vnto.
Bonnetier: m. A Capper, or Bonnet-maker; a knitter of caps, a cap knitter.
Bonneton. A little cap, or bonnet.
Bonnette: f. The bonnet of a sayle. Bonnette traineresse. A drabler; a peece added vnto the bonnet, when there is need of more saile.
Bonniere: f. A proportion, or measure of land, not much differing from th' Arpent. Bon-lieu. The name of a Priorie in Burgundie. Bon enfans. (The name of) a most ancient colledge in th' Vniuersitie of Paris; first called in all congregations, & hauing the first, or highest, place in all assemblies.
Bons hommes. An order of Friers; as Minimes. Bonté: f. Goodnesse, honestie, sinceritie, vertue, vprightnesse; also, bountie, liberalitie; also, valour, prowesse, courage. Beauté sans bonté est comme vin esventé: Pro. Booie. The water Serpent Boas; which vseth, to sucke kine[*?], as long as they are milch, and afterwards to deuoure them.
Boolingue. as Boulingue. Boote. Bootes; a slow mouing starre, seated in the North Pole, neere vnto Charles waine, the which it followes.
Boque. as Bocque. Boquet: m. A groue, or small thicket of trees.
Borax: m. Borax, greene earth; Looke Borrais. Borborigme: m. The rumbling, or croaking of the guts; also, the murmuring noise yeelded by running waters.
Bord: m. The welt, hem, or seluedge, of a garment; (and hence) the welt, or turneouer of a corke shoe; also, the
side, edge, brinke, brim, shore, of a pit, of a hole, of a riuer, of a water, of the sea; also, th' end, conclusion, or last cast of a matter. Bords. Ribbons; thicke boords nailed to th' outside of the floore-timbers of a ship. Bord bas, ou bas bord. The larboord, or left side of a ship. Bord plat, or, plat bord. In a ship, is the edge of the bridge, from the maine mast vnto the fore-castle, vpon which the great ordnance is placed. Grain sur bord. Scant measure; hard striken measure, of corne, or salt. Oultre bord. Excessiuely, beyond measure. Il est sur le bord de la fosse. He is a drooping, old, decrepit creature; he is alreadie at the pits brinke; hee hath alreadie one foot in his graue. Prendre bord. To take land, to go ashore.
Bordage. as Bord; Also, a base, drudging, or seruile tenure; villenage. Droict de bordage. The drudgerie, or base seruices, reserued by some Lords vpon the letting of their cottages, or smal tenements; which cannot be giuen, sold, nor engaged by the poore slaues that haue taken them.
Borde: f. A little house, lodging, or cottage of timber, standing alone in the fields, especially one thats built on wheeles, & may be quickly remoued from field to field; also (more generally) any scattered house, lodge, or village in the country; and (in some parts of France) any messuage, farme, or farme-house; also, a stalke of pilled hempe.
Bordé: m. ée: f. Bordered, garded, welted; also, imbrodered; also, stopped, or stayed; whence; Nous sommes bordez à midy. We left work at noon; (rustically.)
Bordeau: m. A brothell, or bawdie-house; the Stewes.
Bordelage: m. Brothelling, wenching, whoore-hunting.
Bordeler. To hunt whoores, to haunt baudie houses.
Bordelier: m. A wencher, whoore-munger, whoore-hunter, haunter of baudie houses; also, as Bourdelier. Bordeliere: f. A certaine fresh-water fish, that resembles a Breame, and hath neither teeth, nor tongue.
Bordelois. The name of a verie great grape.
Border. To border, gard, welt; also, to imbroder; also, to stay, stop, leaue off, giue ouer; whence; Border les avirons. To hold vp the oares, or to surcease rowing.
Bordereau: m. A note, breefe, ticket; also, an accompt; a bill, or booke, of accompts.
Borderie: f. A quantity of earable ground furnished with competent medow and pasture, and containing altogether, in most parts of Poictou but two, and in fewer foure, Oxe-gates, or Oxe-gangs.
Bordeur: m. An Imbroderer. Autant pour le bordeur. So much for that; yea marrie sir now you haue hit it; Or, one good turne requires another; or, I would I were able to requite you sir; all irronically; and the last the most proper; this phrase (wherin there is an allusion to Bourdeur, a lyer) being fitly vsed, as a wish, by those, that could find in their hearts to pay a lyer in his owne money.
Bordeux: m. euse: f. Full of, seruing for, or belonging to, hemmes, edges, brimmes.
Bordier: m. A villaine, or cottager; one that holds by a seruile, base, and drudging, tenure; also, a farmer.
Bordieux: m. Small tenements, little cottages, cotes.
Bordonné. Looke Bourdonné.
Bords. Looke Bord.
Bordure: f. A border, welt, hemme, or gard of a garment;
