BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.
_Pitscottie._
The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib.
Fr. _bastarde_, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind," Cotgr.
BOTE, BUTE, _s._
1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.
2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pass.
A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.
~Kin-bote~, compensation or "assithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;"
Skene, Verb. Sign.
A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.
~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.
A. S. _man-bot_, id.
~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.
_Reg. Maj._
BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.
V. ~Lucken~.
_Douglas._
Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being _locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G.
_bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.
BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.
_Neill._
Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.
_To_ BOTHER, BATHER, _v. a._ To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.
BOTHNE, BOTHENE, _s._
1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.
_Skene._
2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom.
_Assis. Reg. Dav._
L. B. _bothena_, baronia, aut territorium.
BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.
Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.
V. ~Boiting~.
BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one sitter in a church, S.
BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.
_Kennedy._
Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The _bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.
_Journ. Lond._
Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.
A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_, sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.
Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.