Bourbette. A small fresh water fish, that altogether liues on, and lyes in, mud.
Bourbetter. To wallow in mud; to paddle, or pudder, in the myre.
Bourbeux: m. euse: f. Muddie, or full of mud; filth, durt.
Bourbier: m. A muddie place, a slough, or puddle full of durt, and mud.
Bourblier. as Bourbelier. Bourbonnois: m. oise: f. Of Bourbon. Tarte Bourbonnoise. A deepe slough, bog, or quagmire; a stable (of ill intertainement) for a horse.
Bourboulenc. The name of a Vine.
Bourcier. fief bourcier. as fief boursal; (par la Coustume des Chartres.) Bourdaine: f. A certaine low, and vpright-branched (French) hedge-tree, whose wood is very weake, and light, bearing a berrie (of the bignesse of a haw) first pale, then red, at length blacke: exceedingly loued by Stags.
Bourdant: m. ante: f. Ieasting, bourding; trifling, toying; foisting, cogging with, gulling of, people. Truffant bourdant. Betweene ieast and earnest.
Bourde: f. A ieast, fib, tale of a tub. Donner la bourde de l'Alouette. Seeke Alouette. Bourdé: m. ée: f. Grauelled, as a cart, &c.
Bourdelage: m. A Tenure in the dominion of Nevers, whereby the tenant is bound to pay vnto his Landlord an yearely rent in money, corne, and feathers, or in any two of them; which if he omit three yeares together, he forfeits his estate; In Bourbonnois it is as Taille Réelle. Bourdelais. A certaine Vine, or grape that yeelds verie soure wine; and therefore is it vsually set about arbors, more for the shadow, then for the fruit, it yeelds.
Bourdelasier. Full of ieasts, or of tales.
Bourdelier. Let out, or held in Bourdelage; also, holding by, or subiect vnto, it. Seigneur bourdelier. The Lord vnto whom Bourdelage is due.
Bourder. To toy, trifle, dally; bourd, or ieast with; also, to cog, foist, gull, sell a bargaine, giue a gudgeon vnto; also, to quip, gird; mocke, scoffe at.
Bourdereau. as Bordereau. Bourdes: f. Sybs, fibs, rappers, lyes; toyes to mocke apes; tales to gull asses with; also, scoffes, ieasts, gibes, cuts, quips; and hence; Ce sont les pires bourdes que les vrayes: Pro. The truest ieasts sound worst in guiltie eares.
Bourdeur: m. A mocker, ieaster; cogger, lyer, foister, guller of people.
Bourdican: m. A begging frier. Travailler en bourdican. To trudge vp and downe, to trot to and fro, to toyle like a horse, neuer to rest.
Bourdin: m. The shell-fish called a Limpin, or Lempet.
Bourdon: m. A Drone, or Dorre-bee; also, the humming, or buzzing of bees; also, the drone of a Bagpipe; also, the big end of a club, &c; also, a Pilgrims staffe; also, a walking staffe hauing a sword, &c, within it; (some-*times) also, a Pike, or Speare. Le bourdon d'un moulin à vent. A wind-mill post. Chanter en faux bourdon; See Faux-bordon. Demeure à bourdon planté. A fixed dwelling, a setled residence in a place.
Bourdonnasses: f. A fashion of great hollow launces vsed in old time.
Bourdonné: m. ée: f. Furnished with, or made like to
a Pilgrims staffe; also, buzzed, or hummed.
Bourdonnement: m. A buzzing, or humming, as of Drones, &c.
Bourdonner. To buzze, or humme like a Drone, &c.
Bourdonnesque: com. Humming, buzzing, Drone-*like.
Bourdonneur: m. A hummer, or buzzer; also, one that playes on a Bagpipe.
Bourdonniere: f. The gudgeon thats in the top of the barre, or hindge-band, of a gate.
Bourelet. as Bourlet. Bourellé: m. ée: f. Tormented, tortured, extreamely vexed.
Bourellemént: m. A torture, torment, cruell racking; extreame vexing.
Bourellément. Most cruelly, with much torment.
Boureller. To torture, torment, vex horribly.
Bourellerie: f. as Bourellement, or Bourrelerie. Bouret. A kind of shell-fish.
Bourg: m. A Bourough, or great Towne (without wals, or ditches.) De bourg en bourg. Wandering, like a rogue, from bourough to bourough; or, from one good towne to another.
Bourgade: f. A village, hamlet, small borough.
Bourgage: m. A towneship, or bouroughship; the inhabitants of houses in lands belonging to a towne, or bourough; also, an estate, or tenure in Burgage, held either of the king (as our Borough English) or of other Lords of the Borough, and subiect to no other then the customarie and accustomed rents, or seruices thereof.
Bourgalois: m. A Spanish coyne worth about xviij d. sterl.
Bourgamaistre: m. A Mayor, or Burgamaster; the principall Magistrate, or Officer, in a citie, or good towne.
Bourgeois: m. A citizen, townes-man, burguer, burgeße; also, a freeman, in any place. Bourgeois d'Amphitrite. A fish; a freeman of the sea. Bourgeois du Comte de Nevers. His freed men; who payed vnto him an yearely rent of xij d. Tourn. and in regard of their freedome vnder him, were to renounce all other lords. Le Bourgeois d'un Navire. The owner of a ship. Bourgeois du Roy. The kings burgesse, or freeman; a lay, and true-borne, yeoman; (for neither gentleman, clerke, nor bastard must he be) at first of a seruile, now of a free, condition; yet subiect vnto all proceedings of Iustice, though with some priuiledge; for, in many parts of France, he must not be impleaded in any Court but the Kings; and elsewhere (in inferior courts) onely vpon reall actions. Francs bourgeois. Free Burgesses; those that pay no yearely fines for their freedome, nor so many ordinarie amerciaments of courts as others; though they doe some other seruices, and yeeld other contributions, as others, vnto their lords. Selon la ville les bourgeois: Prov. Such towne such townesmen.
Bourgeois: m. ise: f. Burguerly, citizen-like; belonging to a citizen, burgesse, burguer.
Caution bourgeoise. Citie securitie, or securitie of rich, and resident citizens.
Pain bourgeois. Crible bread; bread thats betweene white and browne; See Pain.
Bourgeoisie: f. A burguership, or burgesseship; the estate, or condition, of a burguer, or burgesse; also, bur-*
