Part 770

Bourn"less, a. Without a bourn or limit.

Bour"non*ite (&?;), n. [Named after Count Bournon, a mineralogist.] (Min.) A mineral of a steel- gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

Bour*nous" (&?;), n. See Burnoose.

||Bour*rée (&?;), n. [F.] (Mus.) An old French dance tune in common time.

||Bourse (&?;), n. [F. bourse purse, exchange, LL. bursa, fr. Gr.&?; skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse, Burse.] An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

Bouse (&?;), v. i. To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

Bouse, n. Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze. "A good bouse of liquor." Carlyle.

Bous"er (&?;), n. A toper; a boozer.

||Bou`stro*phe"don (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; turning like oxen in plowing; &?; to turn.] An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Bou*stroph`e*don"ic (&?;), a. Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.

Bou*stroph"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. boystro`fos ox-guiding.] Boustrophedonic.

Bousy (b"z), a. Drunken; sotted; boozy.

In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

Bout (bout), n. [A different spelling and application of bought bend.] 1. As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton.

The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

2. A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.

Bou*tade" (&?;), n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See Butt.] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

Boute"feu (&?;), n. [F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.] An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.]

Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

||Bou`ton`nière" (&?;), n. [F., buttonhole.] A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

||Bouts`-ri*més" (&?;), n. pl. [F. bout end + rimé rhymed.] Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

Bo"vate (&?;), n. [LL. bovata, fr. bos, bovis, ox.] (O.Eng.Law.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

Bo"vey coal` (&?;). (Min.) A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

Bo"vid (&?;), a. [L. bos, bovis, ox, cow.] (Zoöl.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

Bo"vi*form (&?;), a. [L. bos, bovis, ox + -form.] Resembling an ox in form; ox- shaped. [R.]

Bo"vine (&?;), a. [LL. bovinus, fr.L. bos, bovis, ox, cow: cf. F. bovine. See Cow.]