Part 24

=bosseler= (bos-lé), _v.a._, to dent; to emboss.

=bosselure= (bos-lur), _n.f._, embossment.

=bosser=, _v.a._, (nav.) to stopper.

=bossette=, _n.f._, (arch., man.) boss, stud.

=bossoir=, _n.m._, (nav.) cat-head; bow.

=bossu=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, hunchback; hunchbacked, humpbacked, deformed, uneven, crooked, tortuous. _— par-devant_; pigeon-breasted. _Rire comme un —_; to split one’s sides with laughter.

=bossuer=, _v.a._, to bruise, to dent, to batter.

_se_ =bossuer=, _v.r._, to get bruised, dented.

=bostangi=, _n.m._, (_—s_) soldier of the Turkish militia.

=boston=, _n.m._, boston (game at cards).

=bostrychite= (-kit), _n.f._, (min.) bostrychite.

=bot=, _adj._, club-footed. _Pied —_; (subst.) club-foot. _C’est un pied —_; he is club-footed.

=bot=, _n.m._, Dutch-boat.

=botanique=, _n.f._, botany.

=botanique=, _adj._, botanical.

=botaniste=, _n.m._, botanist.

=botargue=, _n.f._ _V._ =boutargue=.

=botte=, _n.f._, boot (man’s only); Wellington boot; bunch, bundle, truss; (fenc.) pass, thrust, lunge; step of a coach; cask; clod of dirt or snow; wine vessel, butt. _—s à genouillère_; jack-boots. _—s à l’écuyère_; top-boots. _Souliers —s_; Blucher boots. _—s retroussées_, _—s à revers_; top-boots. _—s de sept lieues_; ogre’s boots. _—s fines_; dress boots. _Tirant de —_; boot-strap. _Tige de —_; boot-leg. _Tire-—_; boot-jack. _Mettre du foin dans ses —_; to feather one’s nest. _A propos de —s_; about nothing. _Graisser ses —_; to prepare for a journey, for death. _Décrotter_, _cirer_, _des —s_; to clean, to polish, boots. _Une — d’asperges_; a bundle of asparagus. _Une — de foin_; a truss of hay. _Porter une — à quelqu’un_; (fenc.) to make a pass, a lunge, at one. _Parer une —_; to parry a pass. _Il lui a porté une vilaine —_; he served him a very scurvy trick.

=botté=, =-e=, _adj._, booted, with boots on.

=bottelage= (bo-tlaj), _n.m._, tying up in bundles.

=botteler= (bo-tlé), _v.a._, to put up in bundles.

=botteleur= (bo-tleur), _n.m._, (agri.) binder, bandster.

=botter=, _v.a._, to make, to supply any one with, boots; to boot anybody. _Ce bottier botte bien_, _mal_; this bootmaker makes boots well, badly. (fam.) _Cela me botte_; that suits me down to the ground.

_se_ =botter=, _v.r._, to put one’s boots on; to get one’s shoes clogged with dirt; to ball (of horses); (milit.) to boot. _Cet homme se botte bien_, _mal_; this man wears well made, badly made, boots.

=bottier=, _n.m._, bootmaker, shoemaker.

=bottine=, _n.f._, half-boot; lady’s boot.

=boubie=, _n.f._, (orni.) booby, gannet.

=bouc=, _n.m._, he-goat; goat-skin; pulley. _— émissaire_; scape-goat.

=boucage=, _n.m._, (bot.) burnet saxifrage.

=boucan=, _n.m._, a place to smoke-dry in.

=boucaner=, _v.a._, to smoke (meat, hides).

=boucaner=, _v.n._, to smoke-dry; to hunt wild bulls for their hides.

=boucanier=, _n.m._, buccaneer, bucanier; free-booter; buccaneer’s musket.

=boucaro=, _n.m._, boucaro, red clay.

=boucassin=, _n.m._, lining.

=boucaut=, _n.m._, cask, hogshead.

=bouche=, _n.f._, mouth; lips; tongue; muzzle (of a cannon); voice; victuals; eating, living; cooks (of a sovereign); mouth, opening, aperture (of canals, rivers); plug-hole, fire-plug. _Dépense de —_; household expenses. _Munitions de —_; provisions. _— à —_; face to face. _— béante_; open-mouthed. _De —_; by word of mouth. _Être sur sa —_; to be given to gluttony. _Que l’imposture ne souille point votre —_; let not falsehood sully your lips. _— close_; keep it to yourself; mum’s the word! _Il dit cela de —, mais le cœur n’y touche_; he says one thing and thinks another. _Fermer la — à quelqu’un_; to stop any one’s mouth. _Il dit tout ce qui lui vient à la —_; he says whatever comes uppermost. _Faire la petite —_; to be difficult to please, dainty. _Elle n’en fait point la fine —_; she does not mince it. _Faire la — en cœur_; to screw up one’s mouth, to look captivating. _Cela rend la — amère_; that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. _Garder une chose pour la bonne —_; to keep a tit-bit till the last. _Cela fait venir l’eau à la —_; that makes one’s mouth water. _Prendre sur sa —_; to stint one’s self. _Selon ta bourse, gouverne ta —_; you must cut your coat according to your cloth. _Il arrive bien des choses entre la — et le morceau_; there is many a slip between the cup and the lip. _Cheval qui a bonne —_; hard-feeding horse. _Un cheval qui n’a ni — ni éperon_; a horse that obeys neither bridle nor spur. _Un homme fort en —_; a man that out-talks everybody. _Il y en avait à — que veux-tu_; there was enough and to spare.

=bouchée=, _n.f._, mouthful. _Ne faire qu’une — de quelqu’un_; to make but a mouthful of any one, to beat any one with ease.

=bouche-nez=, _n.m._, stench-trap.

=boucher=, _v.a._, to stop, stuff, choke up; to obstruct. _— une bouteille_; to cork a bottle. _— un tonneau_; to bung a barrel. _— la vue d’un voisin_; to obstruct a neighbor’s view. _Se — les oreilles_; to stop one’s ears. _Se — le nez_; to hold one’s nose. _— un trou_; to stop up a gap, to pay a debt.

=boucher=, _n.m._, butcher. _— en gros_; carcass-butcher.

=bouchère=, _n.f._, a butcher’s wife, woman keeping a butcher’s shop.

=boucherie= (boo-shrî), _n.f._, shambles, butchery, market; slaughter, carnage, massacre.

=bouche-trou=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) a stop-gap.

=bouchoir=, _n.m._, oven-door, lid, stopper.

=bouchon=, _n.m._, cork, stopper; ☉darling; wisp (of straw, &c.); packet (of linen); pot-house. _Frotter un cheval avec un — de paille_; to rub down a horse with a wisp of straw. _— de cabaret_; tavern-bush (kind of game).

=bouchonner=, _v.a._, to rub down (a horse).

=bouchonnier=, _n.m._, corkcutter.

=bouchot=, _n.m._, fishing-hurdles; mussel-bed.

=bouchure=, _n.f._, quickset hedge.

=boucle=, _n.f._, buckle; ring; curl, ringlet, lock; (arch.) knocker; (nav.) staple, ring. _Des —s d’oreilles_; ear-rings. _Mettre une perruque en —s_; to curl a wig. _Mettre en —_; to put in irons.

=bouclé=, =-e=, _part._, buckled, curled. _Cheveux —s_; curly hair.

=boucler=, _v.a._, to buckle; to put a ring to; to curl (hair); (hunt.) to ferret out.

_se_ =boucler=, _v.r._, to curl one’s hair.

=boucler=, _v.n._, to curl, to put out, bulge.

=bouclier=, _n.m._, buckler, shield; defense, protection; (ich.) lump-fish. _Levée de —s_; rising in arms; insurrection.

☉=boucon=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) poisoned drink or dish.

=bouddhique=, _adj._, Buddhistic.

=bouddhisme=, _n.m._, Buddhism.

=bouddhiste=, _n.m._ and _f._, Buddhist.

=bouder=, _v.n._, to pout, to look sour, to sulk; to pout at; not to be able to play (dominoes); (hort.) to be stunted.

_se_ =bouder=, _v.r._, to be sulky with, to be cool, towards each other.

=bouderie= (bou-drî), _n.f._, pouting, sulking, sulkiness.

=boudeu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, sulky, sullen.

=boudeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, person who sulks.

=boudin=, _n.m._, black pudding; (nav.) pudding; (arch.) torus; saddle-bag, cloak-bag; spring (of a coach); long curl; sausage-finger.

=boudinage=, _n.m._, slubbing, roving.

=boudine=, _n.f._, (glass-making) bunt, knot.

=boudineu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, rover, slubber.

=boudini-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, black-pudding-maker.

=boudinoir=, _n.m._, roving-machine.

=boudoir=, _n.m._, boudoir, lady’s private-room.

=boue=, _n.f._, dirt, mire, mud; filth; meanness; sordidness; sediment (of ink). _Je n’en fais pas plus de cas que de la — de mes souliers_; I don’t value it more than the dirt on my shoes. _Une âme de —_; a mean soul. _Tirer quelqu’un de la —_; to raise any one from the dunghill. _Traîner quelqu’un dans la —_; to load any one with abuse.

=bouée=, _n.f._, (nav.) buoy. _— de sauvetage_; life-buoy.

=boueur=, _n.m._, scavenger, dustman.

=boueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, dirty, miry; muddy; foul. _Chemin —_; dirty road. _Ecriture —se_; thick writing.

=bouffant=, =-e=, _adj._, puffed.

☉=bouffante=, _n.f._, hoop, farthingale.

=bouffarde=, _n.f._, (pop.) short pipe. _Téter_ or _fumer sa —_; to have a whiff, to blow one’s cloud.

=bouffe=, _n.m._, buffoon. _pl._, Italian opera (in Paris). _Aller aux —s_; to go to the Italian opera.

=bouffée=, _n.f._, puff, gust, blast, whiff; fit. _Par —s_; by fits and starts.

=bouffer=, _v.n._, to puff, to swell, to rise, to bulge.

=bouffer=, _v.a._, to blow (meat).

=bouffette=, _n.f._, bow (ribbon), ear-knot.

=bouffi=, =-e=, _adj._, puffed up, swollen, inflated. _Des joues —es_; puffed out cheeks. _— d’orgueil_; puffed up with pride. _Ange —_; chubby child.

=bouffir=, _v.a._, to puff up, to swell, to bloat.

=bouffissure=, _n.f._, swelling, puffing up; turgidness, bombast.

=bouffon=, _n.m._, buffoon, jester, clown; merry-andrew, jack-pudding, droll. _Un mauvais —_; a sorry jester. _Faire le —_; to play the buffoon.

=bouffon=, =-ne=, _adj._, jocose, facetious, comical.

=bouffonner=, _v.n._, to be jocose, full of jests; to play the buffoon.

=bouffonnerie= (-fo-n-rî), _n.f._, buffoonery, drollery, jesting.

=bouge=, _n.m._, little closet, hole, wretched den, hovel; bulge of a cask.

=bougeoir= (-joar), _n.m._, flat candlestick, chamber-candlestick; taper-stand.

=bougeotte=, _n.f._, pigeon-hole.

=bouger=, _v.n._, to stir, to budge, to wag, to fidget. _Il ne bouge de cette maison_; he is always at that house.

=bougie=, _n.f._, candle, wax-candle, wax-light; (surg.) bougie.

=bougier=, _v.a._, to wax.

=bougonner=, _v.n._, to grumble, to scold, to jaw, to mum.

=bougran=, _n.m._, buckram.

=bougre=, _n.m._, blackguard; fellow. _Bon —_; good sort of fellow. _Mauvais —_; nasty fellow, ugly customer.

*=bouillabaisse=, _n.f._, Provençal fish-soup with garlic, &c.; mish-mash.

*=bouillant=, =-e=, _adj._, boiling, boiling-hot, scalding-hot, piping-hot; hot, fiery, hasty, eager, fierce, hot-headed. _Jeunesse —e_; fiery youth. _— de colère_; boiling with anger. _— d’impatience_; burning with impatience.

*=bouille=, _n.f._, fishing-pole.

*=bouiller=, _v.a._, to stir the water with a pole.

*=bouillerie=, _n.f._, boilery.

*=bouilleur=, _n.m._, boiler-tube (of an engine).

*=bouilli=, _n.m._, boiled beef, bouilli.

*=bouillie=, _n.f._, pap (for infants); pulp (to make paper). _Faire de la — pour les chats_; fruitless labor, profitless undertaking.

*=bouillir=, _v.n._, to boil, to simmer. _Faire — à demi_; to parboil. _— à gros bouillons_; to boil fast. _— à petits bouillons_; to boil gently; to simmer. _Cela sert à faire — la marmite_; that helps to make the pot boil.

*=bouillir=, _v.a._, to boil. Only used in the popular and figurative expression: _— du lait à quelqu’un_; to say something very pleasant to somebody.

*=bouilloire=, _n.f._, boiler, kettle.

*=bouillon=, _n.m._, broth; bubble, ripple, bubbling; ebullition, transport; puff (of a lady’s dress). _— en tablette_; portable broth, meat-tablet. _— de poulet_; chicken broth. _— de veau_; veal-broth. _— coupé_; broth diluted with water. _Prendre un —_; to take some broth. _Boire un —_; to swallow a mouthful (in bathing); to meet with a loss. _— pointu_; clyster. _L’eau sort de la roche à gros —s_; the water comes gushing out of the rock. _Un — d’eau_; a bubbling fountain.

*=bouillon-blanc=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) mullein, cow’s-lung-wort.

*=bouillonnant=, =-e=, _adj._, bubbling, gurgling.

*=bouillonnement= (-io-n-mān), _n.m._, bubbling up, spouting or gushing out; ebullition, effervescence, agitation.

*=bouillonner=, _v.n._, to bubble, to gush out, to boil, to boil over.

=bouillonner=, _v.a._, to put puffs to. _— une robe_; to put puffs to a dress.

*=bouillotte=, _n.f._, foot-warmer.

*=bouillotte=, _n.f._, bouillotte (game at cards).

=bouin=, _n.m._, (dy.) head of silk.

=bouis=, _n.m._, glazing-stick.

=boujaron=, _n.m._, tot, about half a gill (nav.).

=boulaie=, _n.f._, (l.u.) birch plantation.

=boulang-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, baker; baker’s wife.

=boulanger=, _v.a._, to make bread. _Du pain bien boulangé_; well-made bread.

=boulanger=, _v.n._, to bake.

=boulangerie= (-lan-jrî), _n.f._, baking, bakers’ business; bakehouse.

=boule=, _n.f._, bowl, ball, pate, head, noddle, sconce. _Il est rond comme une —_; he is as round as a ball. _Un jeu de —_; a bowling-green. _Jouer à la —_; to play at bowls. _Avoir la —_; to play first. _Boule-de-neige_, (_—s-—_) (bot.) snow-ball. _— d’eau chaude_; hot water bottle. ☉_A la — vue_; in haste, carelessly. _—_; (for voting) ballot. (pop.) _Perdre la —_; to lose one’s head.

=bouleau=, _n.m._, birch, birch-tree.

=bouledogue=, _n.m._, bull-dog.

=bouler=, _v.n._, to swell, to pout (of pigeons).

=boulet=, _n.m._, bullet, ball; fetlock-joint (of a horse); (man.) boulet. _Un — de canon_; a cannon-ball. _Un coup de —_; a cannon-shot. _— rouge_; red-hot ball. _— ramé_; chain-shot, bar-shot. _Condamner au —_; (milit.) to condemn to chain and ball. _Tirer à —s rouges sur quelqu’un_; to load any one with abuse.

=bouleté=, =-e=, _adj._, (vet.) upright on fetlock-joint. _V._ =juché=.

=boulette=, _n.f._, forced-meat ball; pellet, paper-bullet, blunder. _Faire des —s_; to commit blunders.

=bouleux=, _n.m._, thick-set horse; heavy hack; drudge. _Un bon —_; a plodding man, a drudge.

=boulevard= _or_ =boulevart= (bool-var), _n.m._, bulwark, rampart; boulevard.

=bouleversement= (bool-vers-mān), _n.m._, destruction, ruin; overthrow; overthrowing; overturning; commotion, confusion, disorder.

=bouleverser= (bool-vèr-) _v.a._, to overthrow; to throw down, to subvert; to agitate, to trouble, to throw into commotion; to upset; to unsettle, to unhinge, to convulse. _Cela m’a tout bouleversé_; it has quite unhinged me.

☉_à la_ =boule vue=, _adv._ _V._ =boule=.

=boulier=, _n.m._, bag-net (fishing).

=boulimie=, _n.f._, (med.) bulimy.

=boulimique=, _adj._, bulimic.

=boulin=, _n.m._, pigeon-hole; (mas.) pigeon-cove; putlog. _Trous de —_; scaffolding-holes.

=bouline=, _n.f._, (nav.) bowline, gantlet. _Aller à la —_; to sail close to the wind; to tack about. _Courir la —_; to run the gantlet.

=bouliner=, _v.n._, to sail close to the wind.

=bouliner=, _v.a._, to haul to windward. _— une voile_; to haul a sail to windward.

=boulingrin=, _n.m._, bowling-green, grass-plot.

=boulinier=, _n.m._, (nav.) _Un bon —_; a ship that sails well to windward.

=bouloir=, _n.m._, (mas.) larry, pole.

=boulon=, _n.m._, bolt, large iron pin.

=boulonnement=, _n.m._, bolting, pinning.

=boulonner=, _v.a._, to pin, to fasten with iron pins, to bolt.

=boulot=, =-te=, _adj._, fat, dumpy, squatty.

=boulotter=, _v.n._, to jog along.

☉=bouque=, _n.f._, channel, strait, mouth, passage.

☉=bouquer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to kiss forcibly; to yield, to truckle.

=bouquet=, _n.m._, bunch, cluster, tuft; nosegay, bouquet, posy; birth-day ode, sonnet; birth-day present; flavor, aroma (of wine). _Un — de plumes_; a plume of feathers. _Un — de pierreries_; a sprig of jewels. _Un — de bois_; a cluster of trees. _Fleur qui vient en —s_; flower that grows in bunches. _— de fusées_; bunch of rockets. _Réserver une chose pour le —_; to keep a thing for the last. _Et maintenant, pour le —!_ and now, to cap the story!

=bouquetier= (book-tié), _n.m._, flower-vase.

=bouquetière=, _n.m._, flower-girl.

=bouquetin=, _n.m._, wild goat, ibex.

=bouquin=, _n.m._, old he-goat; buck-hare; old book. _Mauvais —_; worthless book; (of pipes) mouth-piece.

=bouquiner=, _v.n._, to buck, to couple (of hares); to hunt after, to read, old books.

=bouquinerie= (-ki-n-ri), _n.f._, old-book trade.

=bouquineur=, _n.m._, lover of old books, book-fancier.

=bouquiniste=, _n.m._, dealer in old books.

=bouracan=, _n.m._, a sort of camlet, barracan.

=bouracanier=, _n.m._, barracan maker.

=bourbe=, _n.f._, mire, mud, dirt.

=bourbeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, miry, muddy, sloughy, sloshy.

=bourbier=, _n.m._, slough, puddle, mire, mud; lurch, plunge, scrape, danger. _Il s’est mis dans le —_; he has got himself into a scrape.

*=bourbillon=, _n.m._, core (of an abscess).

=bourcette=. _V._ =mâche=.

=bourdaine=, _or_ =bourgène=, _n.f._, black alder.

=bourdalou=, _n.m._, hat-band; sort of chamber-pot.

=bourde=, _n.f._, fib, sham, humbug, lie. _Donner une — a quelqu’un_; to tell any one a fib.

=bourder=, _v.n._, to fib, to sham, to humbug.

=bourdeur=, _n.m._, fibber, shammer.

*=bourdillon=, _n.m._, stave-wood (for casks).

=bourdon=, _n.m._, drone; pilgrim’s staff; great bell; (mus.) drone; humble-bee; great bell; (print.) out, omission.

=bourdonnant=, =-e=, _adj._, humming, buzzing.

=bourdonnement= (-mān), _n.m._, buzz, buzzing; hum, humming; murmur; tinkling noise.

=bourdonner=, _v.n._, to buzz, to hum, to murmur.

=bourdonner=, _v.a._, to hum; to bore; to pester.

=bourdonnet=, _n.m._, (surg.) dossil.

=bourdonneur=, _n.m._, humming-bird, colibri.

=bourg=, _n.m._, borough, market-town.

=bourgade=, _n.f._, small market-town, straggling village.

=bourgène=, _n.f._ _V._ =bourdaine=.

=bourgeois=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (-joâ, -joaz), burgess, citizen, townsman, commoner; master, mistress, owner of a merchant-ship; contractor. _Un bon —_; a substantial citizen. _Un petit —_; a humble citizen. _Être en —_; (of officers) to be dressed in plain clothes.

=bourgeois=, =-e=, _adj._, middle-class; belonging to, or becoming, a citizen, citizenlike; private; plain; common. _Famille —e_; good middle-class family. _Avoir l’air —_, _les manières_, _—es_; to be common in one’s gait and manners. _Cuisine —e_; plain, homely cooking. _Pension —_; private boarding-house. _Comédie —e_; private theatricals.

=bourgeoisement= (-joaz-mān), _adv._, citizenlike, humbly; vulgarly.

=bourgeoisie= (-joa-zî), _n.f._, middle-class, citizenship, citizens. _Droit de —_; freedom of a city. _Haute —_; upper middle-class, gentry. _Caution —_; good security.

=bourgeon= (boor-jon), _n.m._, bud, gem; shoot; pimple.

=bourgeonnant=, =-e=, _adj._, budding.

=bourgeonné=, =-e=, _part._, budded, pimpled.

=bourgeonnement= (-jo-n-mān), _n.m._, budding, budding-time.

=bourgeonner= (-jo-né), _v.n._, to bud, to shoot, to put forth young shoots; to break out in pimples.

=bourgeonnier= (-jo-nié), _n.m._, (orni.) bullfinch.

=bourgmestre=, _n.m._, burgomaster.

*=bourgogne=, _n.m._, Burgundy wine.

=bourgépine= (-ghé-), _n.f._, (bot.) buckthorn.

*=bourguignon=, =-ne= (-ghi-), _n._ and _adj._, Burgundian, of Burgundy.

=bourlet=, _n.m._ _V._ =bourrelet=.

=bournous=. _V._ =bernous=.

=bourrache=, _n.f._, (bot.) borage.

=bourrade=, _n.f._, blow with a musket butt; beating, home-thrust; taunt; (hunt.) snapping.

=bourras=, _n.m._ _V._ =bure=.

=bourrasque=, _n.f._, squall; relapse; fresh attack (of a disease); vexation; caprice; fit of anger, of ill-humor.

=bourre=, _n.f._, hair, fluff (of animals); stuff, trash; flock (of wool); floss (of silk); wad (of fire-arms); kind of down (on the buds of trees). _Lit de —_; flock-bed.

=bourreau=, _n.m._, hangman, executioner; tormentor, tyrant, butcher. _Un — d’argent_; a spendthrift.

=bourrée=, _n.f._, brushwood, chatwood; small fagot; boree (dance).

=bourreler= (boor-), _v.a._, to torment, to sting; to torture, to rack, to goad.

=bourrelet= _or_ =bourlet=, _n.m._, pad; cushion; sand-bag; swelling (about the loins); padded cap; (of horses) collar.

=bourrelier= (boor-), _n.m._, harness-maker.

=bourrelle=, =-ment=, _n.m._, torment, torture.

=bourrellerie= (boo-rèl-rî), _n.f._, business of a harness-maker.

=bourrer=, _v.a._, to ram; to thrash; to abuse; to stuff, to wad; to cram with food; ☉to nonplus; (hunt.) to snap. _— de coups_; to give a sound thrashing to.

_se_ =bourrer=, _v.r._, to cram one’s self with food; to abuse each other.

=bourrer=, _v.n._, (of horses) to bolt.

=bourriche=, _n.f._, game-basket.

=bourrique=, _n.f._, she-ass; ignorant, stupid person.

=bourriquet=, _n.m._, ass’s colt; hand-barrow; windlass; mason’s horse.

=bourriqui-er=, =-ère=, _n.m.f._, donkey-driver.

=bourrir=, _v.n._, to whir (of partridges).

=bourroir=, _n.m._, tamping-bar.

=bourru=, =-e=, _adj._, cross, morose, peevish, crabbed, moody, wayward, surly, snappish; unfermented.

=bourse=, _n.f._, purse; hair-bag; purse-net; saddle-bag; scholarship; foundation; (anat.) sac; (bot.) wrapper; (surg.) suspensory bandage; (com.) exchange. _Coupeur de —_; cut-throat. _Avoir la —_; to keep the money. _Faire — commune_; to live in common. _Faire — à part_; to keep one’s own money. _La — ou la vie!_ your money or your life! _Aller à la —_; to go to the Exchange, to go on ’Change. _Loger le diable en sa —_; to be penniless. _Avoir toujours la — à la main_; to be always dipping into one’s purse. _Sans — délier_; without expense.

=bourses=, _n.f.pl._, scrotum.

=boursette=, _n.f._, small purse.

=boursicaut=, _n.m._, small purse; small sum.

=boursier=, _n.m._, purse-maker; foundation scholar, exhibitioner.

*=boursiller=, _v.n._, to club together; to fork out.

=bourson=, _n.m._, fob, little pocket.

=boursouflage=, _n.m._, bombast, fustian.

=boursouflé=, =-e=, _adj._, bloated; bombastic, inflated, turgid. _Style —_; turgid style.

=boursoufler=, _v.a._, to bloat, to make turgid, to puff up.

=boursouflure=, _n.f._, bloatedness (face); turgidness (style).

=bousage=, _n.m._, dunging.

=bousard= _or_ =bouzard=, _n.m._, deer’s dung.

=bousculade= _or_ =bousculement= (boos-kul-mān), _n.m._, jostling, hustling; bullying.

=bousculer= (boos-) _v.a._, to turn upside down, to throw into disorder; ta jostle, to hustle, to squeeze.

=bouse= (booz), _n.f._, cow-dung.

*=bousillage=, _n.m._, mud-wall; mud-walling; bungling piece of work.

*=bousiller=, _v.a._, to make a mud-wall; to bungle, to botch.

*=boursilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, mud-wall builder, bungler, botcher.

=bousin=, _n.m._, the soft crust of freestone; (l.ex.) row, shindy.

=boussole=, _n.f._, sea compass, compass; mariner’s needle; guide, direction.

=boustrophédon=, _n.m._, (antiq.) boustrophedon.

=bout=, _n.m._, end, extremity, tip; top, point; bit; nipple; muzzle, ferrule; fag-end. _Le — des doigts_; the finger-ends. _Savoir une chose sur le — des doigts_; to have a thing at one’s finger’s ends, to know it perfectly. _Brûler la chandelle par les deux —s_; to burn the candle at both ends, to be a bad manager. _Le bas —_; the lower end. _Le — de la langue_; the tip of the tongue. _Le — de la mamelle_; the nipple of the breast. _—s de manches_; false sleeves. _—s d’aile_; pinions. _Bâton à deux —s_; quarter staff. _Au — d’une heure de conversation_; after an hour’s conversation. _Tenir le haut —_; to get the upper hand. _Se tenir sur le — des pieds_; to stand on tip-toe. _Patience, nous ne sommes pas au —_; have patience, we have not done yet. _Tirer un coup de pistolet à — portant_; to fire off a pistol point-blank. _Rire du — des dents des lèvres_; to laugh in a forced manner. _Un — de ruban_; a bit of ribbon. _Il est économe de —s de chandelle_; he is penny wise and pound foolish. _Mettre la patience de quelqu’un à —_; to exhaust any one’s patience. _Pousser quelqu’un à —_; to drive any one to extremities. _Venir à — de_; to succeed, to get through anything. _On ne saurait venir à — de cet enfant_; this child cannot be managed. _À tout — de champ_; at every turn. _Au — du compte_; after all; upon the whole. _D’un — à l’autre_; from beginning to end. _Au — de l’aune faut le drap_; the last straw breaks the camel’s back. _Jusqu’au — des ongles_; to one’s finger-tips. _Laisser voir le — de l’oreille_; to reveal one’s true character. _—-rimé_. _V._ =bout-rimé=.

=boutade=, _n.f._, (boo-) whim, fit, start, caprice, frolic, freak. _Par —s_; by fits and starts.

=boutant=, _adj._, (arch.) supporting. _Arc-—_; buttress.

=boutargue= _or_ =botargue=, _n.f._, botargo.

=bout-dehors=, (_—s-—_). _V._ =boute-hors=.

=bouté=, =-e=, _adj._, (man.) straight-legged. _Cheval —_; straight-legged horse.

=boute-en-train=, _n.m._, (_—_) stallion kept with mares; bird piper. _Être le —_; to be the life and soul of the company.

=boutefeu=, _n.m._, (artil.) linstock; incendiary, firebrand.

☉=boute-hors=, _n.m._, (_—_) (nav.) boom; outrigger; good command of words. _Jouer au —_; to try to oust one another, to play at beggar my neighbor.