Botts
(Botts) n. pl. (Zoöl.) See Bots.
Botuliform
(Bot"u*li*form`) a. [L. botulus sausage + -form.] (Bot.) Having the shape of a sausage.
Henslow.
Bouche
(||Bouche) n. [F.] Same as Bush, a lining.
Bouche
(Bouche), v. t. Same as Bush, to line.
Bouche
(||Bouche, Bouch) n. [F. bouche mouth, victuals.]
1. A mouth. [Obs.]
2. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace
or at court. [Obs.]
Bouchées
(||Bou`chées") n. pl. [F., morsels, mouthfuls, fr. bouche mouth.] (Cookery) Small patties.
Boud
(Boud) n. A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] Tusser.
Boudoir
(||Bou*doir") n. [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.] A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly
furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a
gentleman's) private room. Cowper.
Bouffe
(||Bouffe) n. [F., buffoon.] Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
Bougainvillæa
(||Bou`gain*vil*læ`a) n. [Named from Bougainville, the French navigator.] (Bot.) A genus
of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large
bracts.
Bouge
(Bouge) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bouged ] [Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge.]
1. To swell out. [Obs.]
2. To bilge. [Obs.] "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.
Bouge
(Bouge), v. t. To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.] Holland.
Bouge
(Bouge), n. [F. bouche mouth, victuals.] Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
[Obs.]
[They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . .
with fasting.
B. Jonson.