An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Evergreen.

BOBBINS, s. The water-lily, S. B. Bobbins are properly the seed-vessels.
V. [Cambie-leaf].

BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26.
V. [Boss].

To BOCK, v. a. To vomit.
V. [Bok].

BOCK-BLOOD, s. A spitting, or throwing up of blood.
Polwart.

BOD, s. A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.

To BODE, v. a. To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he boded it on me;" S.

BODEN, part. pa. Preferred.

BODE, BOD, s. An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S.
Ramsay.

Germ. bot, id. from biet-en, to offer. Isl. bud, a proffer, from bioth-a, offerre, exhibere, praebere.