Boutant

( Arch.) See ARC-BOUTANT. Bou'tonville, in New York, a P. O. of West chester co. Bouts-rimés, ( bōō -re-mā',) n. pl. [Fr., rhymed ends.] ( Lit. ) A kind of verses, the making of which forms a social amusement. Some one of the party gives out the rhymes, or endings, of a stanza, and the others have to fill up the lines as they best may. In fixing the "bouts," it is usual to choose such as seem the remotest and have the least connection. Boutte, in Louisiana , a post-office of St. Charles par. Bouvier, ( boov'ya ,) JOHN, an American jurist of French descent, B. in the dep. of Gard, 1787. He was of a Quaker family who emigrated to this country and settled in Philadelphia. He became a citizen of the U. States in 1812. In 1839, he published a Law Dictionary , adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the U. States, and of the several States of the American Union ; a very reliable work, of which the new edition, revised by D. A. Gleason, and published in 1858, is frequently quoted in the present Encyclopedia. His greatest work, the In stitutes of American Law, was published 2 months before his death, in 1851. Bouvines, or BOVINES, ( booveen ,) a village of France, dep. Nord, 12 m. S.E. of Lille, where Philippe-Auguste of France, (July 27, 1214,) with inferior numbers, defeated the army of Otho IV., Emperor of Germany, and his allies. The Counts of Flanders and Boulogne, and William Earl of Salisbury, were made prisoners. Philip de Valois defeated here, in 1340, 10,000 English troops; and on May 17 and 18, 1794, the French defeated the Austrians at this place. Boux'willer, or Busch'weiler. See BISCHWILLER. Bo'va, n. [Lat] ( Arch.) The ancient name for a wine cellar.