Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Botes, pl. boots, A 203, 273.

Bothe, both, A 540, B 221; 1. 63; Bothe two, both, A 3184; your bothes, of both of you, 1. 83; your bother, of you both, T. iv. 168.

Botme, s. bottom, R. 126, 1557; B 1. m 4. 5; B 4291, G 1321, I 363.

Botmelees, adj. bottomless, hollow, unreal, T. v. 1431; Botomlees, L. 1584.

Bough, s. bough, R. 1403; Bowes, pl. R. 108; 5. 183; T. ii. 821; A 1643, 2917.

Bought, Boughte; see Bye.

Bouk, s. trunk of the body, A 2746. A.S. būc.

Boun, adj. prepared, F 1503. Icel. búinn.

Bounde, Bounden, pp. of Binde.

Bounde, s. bound; Boundes, pl. bounds, limits, L. 546, 1673; T. iii. 1272; A 2993, F 571; Bondes, A. ii. 4. 18.