borde (A.S.) table. Hence the modern use of the word board when we speak of "board and lodging"
bord-lees (A.S.) [239], without table
borgh, [70], [143], [181], [346]. borugh, [426], [439], pl. borwes, [19] (A.S.) a pledge, surety. s. in obj. case, borwe, [285]
borwen (A.S.) [71], to give security, or a pledge to release a person or thing, to bail, to borrow. pret. s. borwed
bosarde (A.N.) [189], a worthless or useless fellow. It is properly the name of a worthless species of hawk, which is unfit for sporting; and is thus used in Chaucer's version of the Romance of the Rose, l. 4033:—
This have I herde ofte in saying,
That man ne maie for no daunting
Make a sperhawke of a bosarde.
The original is,—
Ce oï dire en reprovier,