burgeois

See bourgeois2. after mod. F., early mod. E. also burgein, bur gen; In the moneth of May, when medoes bene grene, And all flor is shet with floures the fildes aboute; Burions of bowes brethit full swete, Flor is shet full faire. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2736. And the hyttyng awey of the root of the vyne must be don in March, and som men wil say it must be don or [before] the knottis begynne to burgeon yt for the streit drauing the burgeons be not huet [hurt]. Arnold's Chronicle , 1502 (ed. 1811), p. 167. 2. A bo used for the cover of a book, to prevent injury to the binding. Often written bur gen.