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_Lyndsay._

BOKS, _s. pl._ ”Corner teeth,” Gl. Sibb.

_Maitland Poems._

_To_ BOLDIN, BOLDYN, _v. n._ To swell.

_Douglas._

~Boldin~, ~Boulden~, _part. pa._ swelled.

This is softened into _bowdin_, _bowden_, S. Often in the _pret._ and _part._ it is written _bolnys_, swells, (Doug. V.) and _bolnyt_. I hesitate whether these are contr. from _boldinnys_, _boldinnyt_, or the v. in another form, more nearly resembling Su. G. _buln-a_, Dan.

_bul-ner_. Su. G. _bul-na_, _bulg-ia_, id. _bolginn_, swollen. Hence Isl. bilgia, Su. G. bolgia, a billow; because it is raised by the wind; and _bolda_, a boil, a tumour. Gael. _builg-am_ to swell, _builg_, a blister.

BOLGAN LEAVES, Nipplewort, an herb, S. B. Lapsana communis, Linn.

Perhaps from Isl. _bolg-a_, tumere, or Su. G. _bolginn_, swollen, q. ”swelling leaves,” as being supposed by the vulgar in S. to be efficacious in removing swellings.

_To_ BOLYN, _v. n._ To lay tack aboard.

_Maitland Poems._

O. Fr. _bolin-er_, to sail by a wind, or close upon a wind.

BOLL, _Lintseed Boll_.

V. ~Bow~.

BOLLMAN, _s._ A cottager, Orkn.

_Statist. Acc._

Perhaps from Su. G. Isl. _bol_, villa, and _man_, q. the inhabitant of a village. It is always p.r.o.nounced _bowman_.

BOLME, _s._ A boom, a waterman's pole.

_Douglas._

Germ. _baum_, Belg. _boom_, a tree.

BOLNIT.