BLOUT, BLOWT, adj. bare, naked, also forsaken.  Douglas, III, 76,
    11; IV, 76, 6.  O.N. blautr, Norse blaut, see Cl. and V.
    The corresponding vowel in O.E. is ea:  bl[-e]at.  The O.N.
    as well as the N.N. word means “soft.”  The O.E. word means
    “wretched.”  In Sco. blout has coincided in meaning with
    blait.  The Dan. word blot is, on account of its form, out
    of the question.

BODIN, adj. ready, provided.  Douglas, III, 22, 24; Dunbar, 118,
    36; Wyntoun, VII, 9, 213.  From boethinn, boethja (E.D.D.).

BOLAX, sb. hatchet.  Jamieson.  O.N. boloex, a poleaxe, Norse
    boloeks, O. Sw. boloexe, bolyxe, O. Dan. buloex, Dano-
     Norse bulaks.  Ormulum bulaxe (see further Brate).

BOLE, sb. the trunk of a tree.  Isaiah, 44, 19.  O.N. bolr, the
    trunk of a tree, Norse bol, bul, O. Sw. bol, bul, Sw.
    dial. bol id.

BOLDIN, vb. to swell.  Douglas, II, 52; I, II, 130, 25.  Norse
    bolna, older bolgna, Dan. bolne, M.E. bollen (also
    bolnin).  The Sco. word has developed an excrescent d after
    l.  In Lindsay, 127, 3885, boildin, adj. pp. swollen.

BOLLE, sb. a measure.  Bruce, III, 221; Wyntoun, VII, 10, 519, 521,
    523.  O.N. bolli, a vessel, blotbolli, a measure, Sw.
    bulle.  Rather than from O.E. bolla (Eng. bowl).

BOUN, adj. bent upon, seems to have almost the idea of “compelled
    to.”  Gol. and Gaw. 813.  O.N. buinn.  See Wall under bound,
    and Cl. and V. under bua B. II.

BOUNE, vb. to prepare, to prepare to go, to go.  Houlate, I, 23;
    Poet.  R. 107, I; Gol. and Gaw. 59, 13, 40.  See bown.

BOWDYN, pp. adj. swollen.  Dunbar T.M.W. 41, 345; Montg.  F. 529. 
    See boldin.

BOWK, sb. trunk of the body, body.  Dunbar, 248, 25; Rolland, II,
    343.  O.N. bukr, the trunk, the body, Norse b[-u]k, Dan.
    bug, O. Sw. buker.  Specific Scand. usage.  O.E. b[-u]c,
    like O.F. buk and Germ. bauch, meant “belly.”

BOW, sb. a fold for cows.  Douglas, III, 11, 4.  O.N. bol, a place
    where cows are penned, also den, lair or lying-place of
    beasts.  Norse bol, Shetland bol, bol, a fold for cattle. 
    In Psalms XVII, 12, bole occurs in the sense of “a lion’s
    den.”

BOWN, adj. ready, prepared.  L.L. 1036.  O.N. buinn.  Not Eng., but
    a loanword from O.N., and as Kluge P.G.(2)I, 939, has pointed
    out shows also Norse influence in the Midland dial.