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BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.

_Pitscottie._

The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib.

Fr. _b.a.s.t.a.r.de_, ”a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind,” Cotgr.

BOTE, BUTE, _s._

1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.

2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pa.s.s.

A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.

~Kin-bote~, compensation or ”a.s.sithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;”

Skene, Verb. Sign.

A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.

~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.

A. S. _man-bot_, id.

~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.

_Reg. Maj._

BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.

V. ~Lucken~.

_Douglas._

Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being _locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G.

_bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.

BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.

_Neill._

Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.