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BODKIN, V. God's bodkin\, 2. 2. 533 Buz. ' Used to be an interjection at
BOND (sb.), pledge, promise (cf. Oxford, when any one began a
band); 1. 3. 130 story that was generally known
BORE (sb.), lit. calibre of a gunj before' (Blackstone); 2. 2. 398
hence, size, importance; 4. 6. 26 BUZZER, secret tale-bearer} 4. 5. 89
BORNE IN HAND, deceived; 2. 2. 67
BOTCH UP, put together clumsily} CALENDAR, register; 5". 2. 114
4. ^ 10 CALF, dolt; 3. 2. 1035 5. I. 113
BRAINISH, 'headstrong, passionate' CANDIED, sugared; 3. 2. 58
(N.E.D.), 'illusory' (Herford); CANKER, (i) canker worm; 1. 3. 395
4. 1.11 (ii) cancer, ulcer; 5. 2. 69
BRAVERY, bravado, ostentatious CANON, edict, esp. of ecclesiastical
display; 5. 2. 79 law; 1. 2. 132
BREATHE, speak, express oneself} CANONIZED, consecrated, sainted
1. 3- 13° (cf. Trail. 2. 2. 202 'And fame
BREATHING TIME, time for taking in time to come canonize us')5
exercise; 5. 2. 175 1. 4. 47
BRINGING HOME, burial, laying to CAN WELL, can do well, are skilled}
rest (cf. Tit. And. 1. 1. 83-4 4. 7. 83
'These that I bring unto their CAPABLE, impressible (like wax),
latest home.' N.E.D. quotes capable of feeling, susceptible}
the expression from a will of 3.2. 1153.4.127
1528); 5. 1. 227 CAP-A-PE, from head to foot}
BROAD, gross, unrestrained; 3. 4. 2 1. 2. 200
BROKER, (a) middle-man, com- CAPONJ lit. a castrated cockfattened
mission-agent, (b) go-between, for killing, a dull fellow; 3. 2.
pander; 1. 3. 127 92
BROOCH, conspicuous ornament CARBUNCLE, a precious stone of a
(because worn in the hat). Cf. red or fiery colour; 2. 2. 467
Jonson, Staple of Neivs, 3. 2 CARD, (i) chart; 5. 2. 114; (ii) 'by
'The very broch o' the bench the card,' exactly to the point,
gem o' the City'} 4. 7. 92 lit. according to the points on
BRUIT, (a) report, (i) celebrate} the mariner's compass (cf. Macb.
1. 2. 127 1. 3. 17 'the shipman's card');
BUG, bogy, imaginary horror; 5. 2.
22 CAREFULLY, attentively, (here)
BULK, bodily frame (cf. Luc. 467 promptly; 1. 1. 6
'her heart... beating her bulk')} CARNAL, fleshly, adulterous; 5. 2.
1. 3. 12; 2. 1. 92 379
BURIAL, a grave. The orig. sense CARP, (a) a fish, (b) talk, discourse
(cf. M.V. 1. 1. 29); 5. 1.1, 228 (cf. All's Well, 5. 2. 22, and
BURNING ZONE, the belt between N.E.D. 'carp' vb.); 2. 1. 60
the tropics of Cancer and Capri- CARRIAGE, (i) import; 1. 1. 94;
corn in the celestial sphere ace. (ii) (a) an affected word for
to the old cosmology; 5. 1, 276 'hanger' (q.v.), (b) gun-carriage
BUTTON, bud} 1. 3. 4.0 5. 2. 153-59