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

Hence,

BOWIEFU', s. The fill of a small tub, S.
J. Nicol.

BOW-KAIL, s. Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is buys-kool.
Burns.

Bow-stock, s. The same. "A bastard may be as good as a bow-stock, by a time;" S. Prov.
Kelly.

BOWLAND, part. adj. Hooked, crooked.
Douglas.

Teut. boghel-en, arcuare. Bowland is just the part. pr. boghelend, contr.

BOWLIE, BOOLIE, adj. Crooked, deformed; Boolie-backit, humpbacked; sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S
V. [Beugle-backed].

Germ. bucklig, Dan. bugelt, id. from bugle, a bunch or hump; and this from bug-en, to bend; Dan. boeyel, crookedness, boeyelig, flexible.

To BOWN, v. a. To make ready.
V. [Boun], v.

BOWRUGIE, s. Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention; in resemblance of Fr. bourgeois.
Wallace.