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

BOUKSUM, BOUKY, adj. Of the same sense with [Boukit], S.
Poems Buchan Dialect.

BOUKE, s. A solitude.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

A. S. buce, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.

BOULDEN, part. pa. Swelled, inflated.
V. [Boldin].

BOULE, "Round," Rudd.
Douglas.

Teut. bol, tumidus, turgidus; or boghel, beughel, curvatura semicircularis, from bogh-en, arcuare.

BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.
Complaynt S.

BOULENE, s. The same with E. Bowline. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.
Complaynt S.

Sw. bog-lina, id. from bog, flexus.

BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, adj. Ready, prepared, S.
Barbour.
Bone is used in the same sense, O. E.