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BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, _s._
1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called _ewe-bucht_, S.
_Douglas._
2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.
_Statist. Acc._
Teut. _bocht_, _bucht_, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum clausum.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT _v. a._ To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the _s._
_Ross._
BOUCHT-KNOT, _s._ A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being _doubled_, S.
BOUGARS, _s. pl._ Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these _divots_, and then the straw or thatch, S.
_Chr. Kirk._
Lincolns. _bulkar_, a beam; Dan. _biaelke_, pl. _bielcker_, beams.
Su. G. _bialke_, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written _bolkur_.
BOUK, BUIK, _s._
1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.
A _bouk of tauch_, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.
Germ. _bauch von talge_, id.
A _bouk-louse_, one that has been bred about the body.
Teut. _beuck_, truncus corporis.
2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.
_Douglas._
3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.
_R. Bruce._
4. Size, stature, S. _bulk_; _Boukth_, bulk, Gl. Lancash.
_J. Nicol._
5. The greatest share, the princ.i.p.al part, S.
_Cleland._
_To_ BOUK, _v. n._ To bulk, S.
Hence,
BOUKIT, BOWKIT, _part. pa._
1. Large, bulky; S.
_Douglas._
2. _Boukit_ and _muckle-boukit_ are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.
BOUKSUM, BOUKY, _adj._ Of the same sense with _Boukit_, S.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
BOUKE, _s._ A solitude.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
A. S. _buce_, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.
BOULDEN, _part. pa._ Swelled, inflated.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOULE, "Round," Rudd.
_Douglas._
Teut. _bol_, tumidus, turgidus; or _boghel_, _beughel_, curvatura semicircularis, from _bogh-en_, arcuare.
BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.
_Complaynt S._
