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

BOIN, BOYN, BOYEN, BOWYNE, s.
1. A washing-tub, S. B.
2. A flat broad-bottomed vessel, into which milk is emptied from the pail, a bowyne, Loth.

Unless from Isl. boginn, curvus, or Dan. bugn-e, to bend, as respecting its form; I can offer no conjecture as to the origin.

BOYIS, s. In boyis, in fetters.
Barbour.

Teut. boeye, compes, pedica, vinculum; boey-en compedire.

BOIS, adj. Hollow.
V. [Bos].

BOISSES.
V. [Boss].
Knox's Hist.

To BOIST, BOAST, v. a. To threaten, to endeavour to terrify, S.
Douglas.

C. B. bost-io, to vaunt one's self; bost, vaunting.

BOIST, BOST, s. Threatening, S.
Wallace.

BOIT, s. A cask or tub used for the purpose of curing butcher-meat, or for holding it after it is cured; sometimes called a beef-boat, S.
Ruddiman.