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Germ. _bot_, id. from _biet-en_, to offer. Isl. _bud_, a proffer, from _bioth-a_, offerre, exhibere, praebere.
BODE, _s._ Delay.
_Sir Egeir._
BODDUM, _s._
1. Bottom.
_Douglas._
2. Hollow, valley.
_Douglas._
Alem. _bodem_, Germ. Belg. _boden_, solum, fundus.
BODEN, _part. pa._ Proffered.
V. ~Bode~, _v._
BODEN, BODIN, BODYN, _part. pa._
1. Prepared, provided, furnished, in whatever way, S.
_Acts Ja. I._
_Weil-boden_, or _ill-boden_, well, or ill provided in whatever respect, S.
2. It seems to be used, in one instance, in an oblique sense, as signifying matched.
V. ~Boun~.
_Barbour._
Su. G. _bo_, Isl. _bo-a_, to prepare, to provide; _wael bodd_, well provided against the cold.
BODY, _s._ Strength, bodily ability.
_Barbour._
A. S. _bodig_ not only signifies the body in general, but stature.
BODLE, BODDLE, _s._ A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or the third part of an English penny.
_Rudd._
These pieces are said to have been denominated from a mint-master of the name of _Bothwell_.
BODWORD, BODWART, BODWORDE, _s._ A message, S. B.
_Wallace._
A. S. _boda_, a messenger, and _word_. Su. G. Isl. _bodword_ is edictum, mandatum.
BOETINGS, BUITINGS, _s. pl._ Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes.
_Dunbar._
Teut. _boten schoen_, calceus rusticus e crudo corio; Kilian.
BOGGARDE, _s._ A bugbear.
_Rollocke._
A. Bor. _boggart_, a spectre. C. B. _bwg_, larva, terriculamentum.
BOGILL, BOGLE, _s._
1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor.
_Douglas._
2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S. synon. _doolie_, _cow_; being used in both senses.
C. B. _bugul_, fear, _bwgwly_, to frighten.
BOGILL _about the stacks_, or simply, _Bogle_, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S.
_Ritson._
It seems the same game with that called _Barley-bracks_, q. v. The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.
BOGILL-BO, _s._
1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.
