bournous (bornos)

A French spelling of IMG:content-2379.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2380.png:[graphic] up-beat. It was much used as one member of the old-fashioned suite, and is still popular as a form of composition. It is allied to the gavot. bourrelet (bör-la'), n. [F.: see burlet.] 1. The stuffed roll (see burlet ) which formed a part of female head-dre in the fourteenth century.-2. In mil it. costume, a wreath or turban of stuff, worn upon the helmet.3. In her. See tortil. bourse (börs), n. [F., purse, bursary, an exchange, IMG:content-2381.png:[blocks in formation] purse, bag, etc.: see burse, purse.] 1. A stock exchange; specifically, the stock exchange of Paris, and hence used of continental European exchanges in general. Fraternities and companies I approve of, as merchants' bourses, colleges of druggists, physicians, musicians, etc. 2t. The bag of a wig. See bag1, 3. bour-tree (bör'trē), n. [Sc., also spelled bur tree, bore- tree, and boun - tree, and formerly burt tree, Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 65. bousa (bö'sä), n . Same as boza . bousel (bouz, also böz, but in the latter pron. usually written booze ), v .; pret. and pp. boused , ppr. bousing . [Also written bowse , bouze , bouz and also, repr. the now most common though dial. pron., boose , booze ; early mod. E. bouse , bowse , bousen (rare), appar. būsen , later buisen, buysen = G. bausen , drink, guzzle; cf. MD. buise , a large drinking-ve el, appar. iden- tical with D. buis , a tube, pipe, conduit, chan- nol. Cf. bus , a box, barrel, and see bo 2 , box2 .] Same as booze , which is now the usual form. As though bold Robin Hood Would, with his Maid Marian, Sup and bowse from horn and can. Keats , Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. bousel (bouz, also böz, but in the latter pron. usually written booze , q. v.), n. Same as booze . No bouse ? nor no tobacco? Mas singer, New Way to Pay Old Debts, i. 1. IMG:content-2382.png:[blocks in formation]