Vocabulary : Boustorphic to Bovate
Boustorphic : Boustrophedonic.
Boustrophedon : An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
Boustrophedonic : Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
Bousy : Drunken; sotted; boozy.
Bout : As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. ;; A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
Boutade : An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Boutefeu : An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
Boutonniere : A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
Bouts-rimes : Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
Bovate : An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
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