Part 769

||Bou`que*tin" (&?;), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The ibex.

Bour (&?;), n. [See Bower a chamber.] A chamber or a cottage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bour"bon (&?;), n. [From the castle and seigniory of Bourbon in central France.]

1. A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

2. A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

Bour"bon*ism (&?;), n. The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

Bour"bon*ist, n. One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.

Bour"bon whis"ky. See under Whisky.

Bourd (&?;), n. [F. bourde fib, lie, OF. borde, bourde, jest, joke.] A jest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bourd (&?;), v. i. To jest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bourd"er (&?;), n. A jester. [Obs.]

Bour"don (&?;), n. [F., fr. L. burdo mule, esp. one used for carrying litters. Cf. Sp. muleta a young she mule; also, crutch, prop.] A pilgrim's staff.

||Bour"don` (&?;), n. [F. See Burden a refrain.] (Mus.) (a) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) (b) A kind of organ stop.

Bour*geois" (&?;), n. [From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess.] (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

This line is printed in bourgeois type.

||Bour*geois" (&?;), n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.] A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.]

a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

||Bour*geoi*sie", n. [F.] The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

Bour"geon (&?;), v. i. [OE. burjoun a bud, burjounen to bud, F. bourgeon a bud, bourgeonner to bud; cf. OHG. burjan to raise.] To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

||Bou"ri (&?;), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

{ Bourn, Bourne } (&?;), n. [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. &?;. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.] A stream or rivulet; a burn.

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.

{ Bourn, Bourne } (&?;), n. [F. borne. See Bound a limit.] A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper.

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak.

Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth.

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.