Bottom. A valley or hollow in the downs.—N. & S.W.
Boulting. See Boltin.
Bounceful. Masterful, domineering. See Pounceful.—N.W.
Bourne. (1) n. A valley between the chalk hills; a river in such a valley; also river and valley jointly (D.).—N. & S.W.
'In South Wilts they say, such or such a bourn: meaning a valley by such a river.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 28. Ed. Brit.
(2) v. In gardening, when marking out a row of anything with pegs, you 'bourne' them, or glance along them to see that they are in line.—N.W.
Box or Hand-box. The lower handle of a sawyer's long pit-saw, the upper handle being the Tiller.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Boy's-love. Artemisia Abrotanum, L., Southernwood (A.B.).—N. & S.W.
Boys. The long-pistilled or 'pin-eyed' flowers of the Primrose, Primula vulgaris, Huds. See Girls.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)