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from Ir. and E. _bog_.
BUGIL, BUGILL, _s._ A buglehorn.
_Douglas._
Q. _buculae cornu_, the horn of a young cow; or from Teut.
_boghel_, Germ. _bugel_, curvatura.
BUICK, _pret._ Court'sied; from the v. _Beck_.
_Ross._
_To_ BUIGE, _v. n._ To bow, to creenge.
_Maitland Poems._
A. S. _bug-an_, to bend.
BUIK, _s._ The body.
V. ~Bouk~.
BUIK, BUKE, _pret._ Baked.
_Dunbar._
A. S. _boc_, c.o.xit, from _bac-an_.
BUIK, BUK, BUKE, _s._ A book, S.
_Dunbar._
Germ. _buch_, Alem. _bouch_, Belg. _boek_, A. S. _boc_, Moes. G.
Isl. Su. G. _bok_, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made, _bok_ signifying a beech-tree.
~Buik-lare~, _s._ Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.
~Buik-lear'd~, ~Book-lear'd~, _adj._ Book-learned, S.
_A. Nicol._
Isl. _boklaerd-ur_, id.
V. ~Lare~, _v._ and _s._
BUIR, Leg. Leuir.
_Wallace._
BUISE, _To shoot the buise._
_Cleland._
Apparently, _to swing_, to be hanged; perhaps from Ital. _busco_, the shoot of a tree.
BUIST, _s._ A part of female dress, anciently worn in S.
_Maitland Poems._
Fr. _busq_, or _buste_, plated body, or other quilted thing, worn to make or keep the body straight. Ital. _busto_, stays or boddice.
BUIST, BUSTE, BOIST, _s._
1. A box or chest, S. _Meal-buist_, chest for containing meal.
_Acts Ja. II._
2. A coffin; nearly antiquated, but still sometimes used by tradesmen, Loth.
O. Fr. _boiste_, Arm. _bouest_, a box.
_To_ ~Buist~ _up_, _v. a._ To inclose, to shut up.
_Montgomerie._
~Buist-maker~, _s._ A coffin-maker, Loth.; a term now nearly obsolete.
BUISTY, _s._ A bed, Aberd.
_Gl. s.h.i.+rr._ used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box.
V. ~Booshty~.
BUITH, _s._ A shop.
V. ~Bothe~.
