bawme

t. [Fr. embaumer = to embalm.] (Scotch.) 1. To embalm. "That ilk hart than, as men sayd, Scho bawmyd , and gert it be layd In-til a cophyn of evore.' Wyntown, viii. 8, 18, (Jamie son.) 2. To cherish, to warm. "We strike at nicht, and on the dry sand is Did bawme and beik oure body is, fete and hand is." Doug.: Virgil, 85, 31 (Jamie son.) bâwn, bâwne, * bân, s. [Ir. bábhun, ulti- mate origin unknown. O'Clery in N.E.D. ] A. As an ordinary Old English word: 1. Gen .: Any habitation, dwelling, or edifice, of whatever materials constructed. ( Richard son.) 2. Specially : A quadrangle or base-court. (French.) B. As a word used by the English living within the Irish pale . (See Trench's Eng . Past and Present.) 1. A hill. "These round hills and square bawnes , which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up, were (they Bay) at first ordained for the same purpose, that people might a emble themselves therein, and therefore aunciently they were called folkmotes , that is, a place of people, to meete, or talke of anything that concerned any difference betweene parties and towneships." Spenser: Ireland. 2. A house. "This Hamilton's bawn , whilst it sticks on my hand, I lose by the house what I get by the land; But how to dispose of it to the best bidder For a barrack or malt house, I now must consider." Swift: The Grand Question Debated . ( Richardson .) It is still used in connection with Irish history. he had wandered about from bawn to bawn and from cabin to cabin." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii, p. 205. 3. A place near the house enclosed with mud or stone walls to keep the cattle from being stolen in the night. ( Notes to Swift's Grand Question Debated .)