BONACE. 980 BOND.

c 1575 A rtc of Planting 39 Specially the Peare called bon Atax or tribute formerly levied by Irish chiefs for 1598 SYLVESTER Du Bartas n. i. t. (1641) 86/1 True Beasts,
Chrestien. 1664 EVELYN Kal. Hort. (1729) 191 Winter Ber- fast in the ground still sticking, Feeding on grass Such . .

the maintenance of soldiers. as those Bonarets in Scythia bred Of slender seeds, and
gamot, Winter Bon-crestien. 1673 Rapifis Garden. (1795)
1568 in Dymmok Ireland App. 11843' 88 Bonaghles due with green fodder fed. 1621 LODGE Stiium. Bartas n. Du
312 In Amiterna's rule the Sabine boors Added Bon-cretiens
to their former stores. MOTTEUX Rabelais iv. liv, I'll totheQueenb Majestic for her Gallogkibses. 1586 J. HOOKEK 33 Bonarate, which is as much to say as a little Lambe.
1708 C-irald. frel, in Holinslwd II. 78/2 The Irish impositions of
them bon-christian or good-christian pears. 1859 LOU-
call Bonarges, obs. form of BOANEKGES.
DON Encycl. Gardening, Kitchen Pears 60 Spanish bon
(Riinio and liverie, cartings, carriages bonnaght and such . .

buoiiaroba as we
'

like. 1633 T. STAFFORD Pac. Hib. v. (1821) 69 Large pro- Bo'na-rO'ba. Obs.
I] [a. It.
Chretien, long known in France, probably from Spain.
mises, for increasing his Bonnoght. 18*7 HALLAM Const, say good a good wholesome plum-
stuffe, that is
Bou mot boil mo, pL mJz). [Fr. 'good saying'.] flist. 1876' II I. xvih. 357 The barbarous practices of cosher-
(
'
cheeked wench (Florio), f. buona good, roba robe,
A clever or witty saying a witticism, repartee. ; ing and bonaght . borrowed from those native chieftains.
.

wench 'a showy wanton' J.A

dress, stuff, gear.]
1735 KING \nSivift's Lett. (.17681 IV. 115 What ib he doing Forms: 4-5 bonure, ;
t Bonair(e, Obs.
with his bons mots? 1781 CO\\TER Truth 307 The Scripture '597 SHAKS. 2 Hen. IV, m. ii. 26 Wee knew where the
was his jest-book, whence he drew Bon mots to gall the 4-6 boner e,-aire, 5 -our, -ayr, -eyre, 6 bonnair,
v Bona-Roba's were. 1680 DRYDEN Kind Kpr. i. i, Such food
Christian and thejew. 1824 BYRON Juan xni.xcvii, What 6- 7 bonayre, 4-7 bonair. [a. OF. bonnain gentle, for Concupiscence, such Bona-Roba's. 1822 SCOTT Nigel
courteous, affable, shortened from debonnaire. The xvi, Your lordship is for a frolic into Alsatia? there are
unexpected woes Await those who have studied their bon
. .

mot>-. 1826 DISKAELI yiv. Grey iv. iv. 151 Come a bon- bona-robas to be found there.
!
accent shifted in ME.]
mot. 1875 EMERSON Lett. <y Sec. Aims vi. 146 The bon- II Bona-sus, bona-ssus. Zool. (Also 6 bo-
1. Well-bred, gentle, courteous, kind, complaisant.
motb that circulate in Society.
nasius, bonaze.) L. bonasus, a. Gr. 06vaaos
Good i 1300 A". A
Us. 6732 With wordes bonere, answerith Heom [a.
Bon-ton (ban-ton', arch. style, good swithe faire. c I3Z$ E. E. Allit. P. B
7.13 Blessed be bow bison.] A genus (or species) of the ox family
breeding polite or fashionable society
; ;
the lash- so boner & bewed. c 1430 Htr.v Gd. Wijf tau^tc Dan. the BISON. See also AUKOCHS.
. .
(Boviite) :

ionable world. Also attrih. 103 in Bastes Bk. '1868) 41 To bitter ne to bonour with 1572 BOSSEWELL A rtnorie 56 b, The fielde is of y" Dia-
1771 SMOLLETT Humph. Cl. 118151 I2 She lives in the
bon hc-in bat bou ne be. 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 1727 Sche ys mond, a Bonaze Perle Bonasius is a Beaste in fourme like
. .

ton and is visited by persons of the first fashion. 1807

. .
ineke and boneyre. 1542 Saritni jl/izMlfa/64 To be bonere a Bull. 1774 GOLDSM. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. xiv. 234 The Cow
W. IRVING Salmag. 1.1824) 35^ 1'o harangue the bon-ton and buxuni in bedde and at the borde. 1600 HOLLAND kind, comprehending the Urus, the Buffalo, the Bison, and
reader. 1865 Pull Mall G. i Aug. 10/2 There was a word, Livy iv. ii. 446 To have been made more bonair and . .
the Bonassus. 1700 BEWICK Quadrupeds 'T.Z-2V 45 Whether
or rather a phrase, in common use among them a century or gratious. 1623 COCKERAM i, Bonnyrc, gentle, milde. 1696 it be the wild or the tame Ox, the Bonasus or the Urus.

sogone by \vhich lias fallen into desuetude with us. No PuiLLU'S Bonair, see Debonair.
Bonave'nture. buona-
= t Obs. [app. ad. It.
one no\v speaks of bon ton. 2. quasi-rtifo. Box.uKi,Y.
rentura good luck in quot. 1592 the name of a
Bon-vivant ^bcm v/vah) ; fern, bonne vivante L
1320 Sir Tristr. ]. xxix, The mariner spac bonnir. c 1350
;

Will. Palcriu 332 Bere be boxumly & bonure. ship of the generic use no explanation appears.]
(bon v/vantX One fond of good living a ;
;

t Bonair ly, adv. Obs. [f. prec. -t- -LY- cf. :

gourmand.
1798MAR. & R. L. EDGEWORTH Pract. Educ, (18221 1. 357
The sympathy of bon vivaiits is very lively and sincere
towards each other. 1824 BYRON Juan xv. Ixiv, But though
a 'bonne vivante'. Her stomach's not her peccant part. 1862
.
1." A
kind of boat or ship.
1592 BRETON Pilgr. Paradise Wits. 1875-9 I. 15 The pil-
F. bonnairemcnt (Cotgr. ] Courteously; meekly.
. . r 1340 Cursor M. 23872 (Fairf.l He bat can mare ben a-
grime must imbarke, Within a shippe the Buonaventure
named. 1614 Way to Wealth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III.
no)'er bonerli {other MSS. debonerli] to teyche his brober.
an bonayrelyche. 235 Kusses, bonadventurcs, or fisher-ships.
1340 Aye-til'. 265 Lybbe \ve sobrelyche . .

Frascrs Mag. July, 46 He was also a bon-rirant, a diner- 1522 // 'i>rld <y CAM
in Hazl. Dodsley \. 243 Look ye bow 2. The old outer mizen, long disused,' Smyth,
'

out,and a story-teller. bonerly to my bidding. Sailor's Word-bk.

See .BONAIR, BOXALLY, BON-BOX, BOXCHTEF, BOX- t Boiiair ness. Obs. [f.
as prec. + -NESS : cf. c 1500 Cocke L orelles B. (18431 12 Some pulled up the bona-
uenture, Some to howes the tope sayle dyde entre. 1626
GRACE, BOXGHE, BOXHOMIE, BOXHOMME; BoXXE. cf.
next.] Gentleness, mildness, courtesy.
CAPT. SMITH Accid. Yng. Seamen lArb. 13. 1704 J. HARRIS t

Bon, obs. f. honn, BOUND, ready, and BOON. 1375 WvcLll' St'rtn. Sel. \Vks. II. 357 Bonernesse, bat is a
t
Lex. Tec/lit, s.v. Misscn-Mast, Some great Ships reguire
l
A vcrtue of mekenesse, whanne men done as bei ben conseilid.
t Bonable, a. Obs. >-art~ , ?
corruption ol two [missens] then that next the Main-mast is the Main-
1383 WYCLIF i Cor. iv. 21 Schal I come to 3011 .. in spirit
;

bominabU, abominable. (Also conjecturally referred missen and that next the Pocp, the Bonaventure-missen.
;
of bonernesse, or niyldencsse ?
to BAX to curse, BOXE, and F. bon good.1 3. ? An adventurer cf. BONEVENTOB,
t Boiiairty. Obs. Forms 4 boneryte, -erte, :
;

1575 J. STILL Gamm. Gurton in. ii, Diccon ! it is a \x-n-

-airete. \p..Q.bonertt,\tte:cbon'ji)aireti ^Cotgr.',; 1598 CHAPMAN Blindc Beg?. Plays 1873 1. 14 Oh sir, you
are but bonaventure, not right Spanish I perceave.
geable knave, gammer, 'tis a bonable whoreson. see BoNAiK.]=prcc.
Boil ace bark. The bark of a Thymelaceous Boiiavist (b(7'navist). Also 8 bonny-vis, [ad.
1303 R. BELNNE flam!/. Syum- 1927 Twcy wymmen. .Of A
shrub (Daphnopsis tinifolia found in Jamaica. so moche boneryte. c 1325 E. E. Allit. P. A. 761 He calde
It. buona vista good sight.] species of tropical
1756 P. BROWNE Jamaica 372 Bonace-bark Tree. The me to hys bonerte. 1386 CHAVCHH Melibeta F 656 By pile
t
pulse (\Lablab vulgaris).
bark makes very good ropes. and by honairete. 1656 BLOI NT Glossogr., Bo'iairite. 1700 W. KING Transact ioneer. The Dr. resolves many
Bo 11 a fide, adj. <*<&'. and [L. bond fide t Boually, bonaillie .twnae'li, -Hi). Si. Doubts and Difficulties relating to the Bonavists, and . . . .

'with good faith'. Commonly anglicized in pro- the Dildoe. 1750 G. HUGHES Barbados 216 The Buona
Also 5 (//. bonalais, 8 bonnaille, bonnaillie, Vista commonly called Bonny-vis. 1883 Caval. $ Roundli.
nunciation as (b(?u-na fsi'di), though classical
y bonnail. [ad. F. ban good + alkr to go, going.] in Barbados, Bonavists are a species of kidney beans.
scholars sometimes preserve the Latin quantity of =
Good-speed, fare-well as in to drink one's bon-
'
; II Bon-bon (bo'nibirn, bf?'n|bpai). [Fr. ; good-
the vowels, with or without the Latin vowel sounds.] BOON
allie' : cf. boon voyage, a. 2.
good a name originating
;
in the nursery ; cf. goody.}
A. adv. In good faith, with sincerity; genuinely. HENRY WalltueV*.
45 Bonalais drank rycht glaidly A made of
lozenge or other confection
i
1470 1. sugar.
1 542
-3 ^Jt:/ 34 ^-35 //c. K///, iv, The same to precede bona in a morow, Syn leiff thai tuk. 17. Trial for Witchcr. in .
MOORE Fudge Fatn. Pan's v, The land of Cocaigne
1818
fide, without fraude. 1600 Hot LAND Livy \xxn..\xxin. 830 Statist. Ace. Scot/. XVIII. 557 (JAM.) His son sailed, .and ..Where for hail they have bon-bons, and claret for rain.
He dealeth not soundly and bona fide \_neqiti; cnm fide agit} gave not his father his bonnaillie. 1811 SCOTT Biofr. Mem. 1831 DisRAtLt Yng. Duke 3 Lady Fitz-Pompey called twice
in treaties of peace. 1722 Lend. Gaz, No. 6082/3 A Horse. .
Leyden in Edin. Ann. Reg. IV, A party of his friends had a week with a supply of pine-apples or bon-bons.
. .

that is not Bona Fide his own. SMEATON Edystonc /,. met to drink, in Scottish phrase, his Bonallie. 1830
t 2. A dainty, a delicacy. Obs.
. .
1795
177 Our men were really and bona fide employed in the farm: Mackenzie 4, I drank his bonnail And farewell to
1821 Cook's Oracle^ (ed. 3) 330 [In a] Catalogue of Persian
Edystone service. Mackenzie, High Chief of Kintail.
is a list of 28 differently flavoured Mus-
'
Bons Bons', there
B. adj. (orig. used with agent nouns, or those Bonano, obs. form of BANANA. tards. 1842 MEG DODS' Cook fy HOHSCW. Man. n. v. 125
'

involving some quality, as

*
in
'
bona fide pur- II Bonanza (bonre-nsa). U. S. colloq. [Sp. ;- note. They [onions] used to form the favourable bon-bons of
chaser', bona fide poverty',
'
bona fide traveller'.) fairweather, prosperity, f. L. bon-us good.] the Highlander.

Acting or done in good faith sincere, genuine. ; 1.

(See quot. The bonanza, mines par excelletice II Bonboillli&re ;b<7nbanyg-r). [Fr., f. bon-bon.]
1788 J. POWELL Dwises 11827.1 II. 17 Act not to extend to were the great silver ones on the Comstock lode. A small fancy box to hold sweets.
bona fide purchasers for a valuable consideration. 1865 Sat. 1862 Con Mag.V.^i A bonbonniere full of sweetmeats.
See Sat. Rev. 31 July 1866.) i ft.

Rev. 5 Aug. 170/2 Interfering with the bona fide character 1883 Harper s Mag. 899/1 A huge floral offering had in-
1878 .V. Amer. Re-.: CXXVII. 12 The boss', the rail-
' ' . .

of the proceeding. 1882 Mtd. Te>np. JrnL No. 50. 83 The numerable pretty bonbonnieres floating at its long ribbon.
bona fide poor are benefited. road king', and the bonanza Crcesus. 1881 RAYMOND Min-
Hence Bo^nafrdically, adv. nonce -wd. ing Gloss., Bonanza, in miners' phrase, good luck, or a Bone, obs. form of BANK sbl
body of rich ore. A mine is in bonanza, when it is profit- Bo&Ce (b$ms). [Origin unknown ; ?related to
1822 SOUTHEY Lett. (1856) III. 314 Two men who love
nonsense so cordially, and naturally, and bonafidically.
ably producing ore.
BOUNCE.] a. A
large marble for playing with.
1878 R. TAYLOR in A". Aincr. Rev. CXXVI. 239 If
II Bona
fides (b^na fai'd/'z). Law. [L. bona
fig.
silence be golden, he was a bonanza 1883 Harper's Mag.
'
'.
b. A gameplayed with such marbles.
Good faith, freedom from in- Nov. 940/1 This a bonanza to its 1862 Yng. England I. t4t Bonce is played with very large
fides good faith.] company. proved . . . . .

stockholders. marbles. One boy pitches his bonce, and another tries to
tent to deceive. strike it, each throwing by turns. 1865 FURNIVALL in Reader
2. attrib., as in bonanza farm, a farm which is
1845 Penny Cycl. Supp. I. 214/1 Bona Fides is therefore ' No. 146. 420/3 Little boys playing at bonce.
opposed to fraud, and is a necessary ingredient in contracts. a mine of wealth one on a large scale with all ;
Bonche, obs. form of BUNCH.
1885 Law Reports XXIX. Chanc. Div. 468 It was said that modern scientific appliances so bonanza farmer.
this shewed bona fides on their part,
;
t Bonchief. Obs. Forms 4 bonchef, -chif, :

1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 79 The bonanza farms of

t Bo'nage. Sc. Obs. Also bonnage. [app. America, where every kind of agricultural process is ac- boonchief, 5 boncheff, -cheef, -ohyef, -chief,
variant of BOON AGE, perh. confused with bondage.] complished by steam. 1884 Lisbon (Dakota) Star 27 June, boueohief, bonneoheve. [f. F. ban good + chef
Services rendered by a tenant to his landlord as One of Ransom county's bonanza farmers.
head', hence 'end, issue' (see CHIEF); opposed
part of rent.
Bouapartism {bJ'i'napajtiz'm). [see -ISM.]
to, and perhaps formed on analogy of, MISCHIEF.]
Attachment to the government and dynasty founded
1791 Statist. Ace. Scotl. I. 433 Bonnage is an obligation Good fortune, prosperity, easy circumstances.
on the part of the tenant to cut down the proprietor's curn. inFrance by Napoleon Bonaparte. c 1340 Gatu. fy Gr. Knt. 1764 Al watz blis & bonchef. 1387
This duty he must perform when called on. 1794 DONALDSON 1815!'. JEFFERSON Writ. 118301 IV. 247 Disgraced by an TREVISA Higden Rolls Ser. I. l. xii. 87 Good happes and
Agric. Sitr? Kincard. 213 (JAM.) Another set of payments association in opposition with the remains of Bonaparteism. boonchief, as wel as yuel happes and meschief. 1563 FOXE
1
,

consisted in services, emphatically called Bonage (from bond- 1831 ARNOLD Let. in Li/e fr Corr. (1844)
I. vi. 290 No- A. * M. I. 603/2 If I consented to do here after your will,
age). These were exacted in seed-time, in ploughing
and har- thing can be more opposite than Liberalism and Bonapart- for bonchief or mischief that may befal unto me in this life.
rowing the proprietor's land in harvest, in cutting down . . ism. 1870 Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 7 Germany will not move
his crop. 1861 C. INNES Sk. Scotch Hist. iii. 384 A lease of a finger m the cause of Bonapartism. Bond (bpnd), sb. Also 4-5 boond, 5-7 bonde,
1

[ME. bond, a phonetic var.of BAND s6.l

bound.
'

a half-merk land of Port Loch Tay, with steelbow and bon- and a. Also 6
age ', according to custom.
Bonapartist (bou-napaitist), sfr.
cf. land land, stand standee.;, used interchangeably
Also bonogh, bonough, Buouapartist. [see -1ST.]
t Boiiagll. Obs.
A. si>. An
adherent of the government and with it in early senses ; but bond preserved more
bownogh. [Irish O'Reilly has buana a billeted :

distinctly the connexion with bind, bound,

soldier, also buanadh a soldier
and is
dynasty of the Bonapartes in France.
Keting in O'Curry now the leading or exclusive form in branch II.]
1815 J. 'W. CROKER in Papers (1884) I. iii. 61 We drove
;

permanent soldiers of the Kings

'
II. 379 bitanadh into Abbeville, where the garrison were savage Buonapart- I. ///. That with or by which a thing is bound.
of Erinn'.] A permanent soldier. tsts. 1873 Daily Xeius 12 Sept. 4/4 blank denial of the A 1. with which one's body or limbs are
Anything
1600 DYMMOK Ireland{i%w 51 [Tyrone's] wealthe, .wilbein national sovereignty, hitherto a first article in the faith
bound in restraint of personal liberty a shackle,
shorte tyme exhausted, by the maynteyninge of his Bonaghs. alike of Orleanists, Republicans, and Bonapartists. ;

1633 T. STAFFORD Pac. Hib. iii. 1821) 43 Three

hundred B. adj. Adhering to Bonaparte or Bonapartism. chain, fetter, manacle, arch, (and only in//.).
were Bonoughes, the best furnished men for the warre. Pall Mall G. i Sept. 2 A new Bonapartist pillar of c 1250 Gen. % Ex. 2230 Bondes ben kid on Symeon. 1340
1869
Cursor M. 7202 (Trin.i Alle his bondes he brake in two
t Bonaght. Obs. Also 6-7 bonnaght, bo- Imperialism.
[other MSS. bandes, -is]. 1382 WYCLIF Acts xvi. 26 The
noghty, i bonaught, bonnoght. [Irish: O'Reilly Bonarets, bonarate. Erroneous adaptations bondis of alle ben vnbounden. 1570 LEVINS Manip. 166
has bttanacht subsidy, quartering of soldiers ; of the Russian Baranets, the Scythian Lamb, a Bonde, rincnlum. 1611 BIBLE Acts xxvi. 29 Altogether
O'Donovan buanacht military service.] fabulous plant. See BAKOMETZ. such as I am, except these bonds. 1785 Co PER Task n. 36
 BOND.
I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds,
than fasten them on him.
fig. 1802 BISGLEY Anitn. Zool, (1813^ 1. 44 As soon as the
parts of the animal, within the shell of the chrysalis, have
acquired strength sufficient to break the bonds that sur-
round it.
b. abstr. Confinement,
imprisonment, custody.
(In later times only in plural.} arch.
a 1225 St. Marker. 13 [hi. ,\f- haldes me in bondes. r 1250
Gen. Ex. 2075 Ic am. .holden in bond. 1339 R. BKUNNE
<
Chron. 123 Arnulf. .was taken als thefe,&abrouht in bond.
Lese me out of bond, c 1430 Hymns
c 1400 Gainelytt 401
Virg. (1867) 6 Let me neuere falle in boondis of pe queecl
1595 SHAKS. John in. iv. 74, I., will againe commit them to
their bonds. 1667 MILTON P. L. n. 207 To endure Exile,
or ignominy, or bonds, or pain. 1721 SEWEL Hist. Quakers
(1795) I. 61 Drunkards, and fighters,and swearers, have their
liberty without bonds. 1884 TENNYSON Beckct 190 Prate not
of bonds.
t C. Our Lady's bonds pregnancy ; confine-
ment
at child-birth, accouchement. Obs.
Will of W. Pryor App,, I Alys beyng in
the bondis
1504
of owr lady. 1558 BP. WHITE in Strype Eccl. Mem. I II. it.
bcxxt. 286 To dye in the bond, as they call it, of our Lady,
and travail of child.
That with which a thing is bound or tied
2.
down, or together, so as to keep it in its position
or collective form formerly including metal hoops
:
girding anything ; still the regular
withe which ties up a fagot, and in various
technical senses. Cf. also 13.
c 1340 Cursor M. 1671 (Trin.t Bynde [be tymber] furste wib
balke bonde. 1420 E. E. Wills 11882) 46, i bord mausure
with a bond ofseluer. 1542-3 Act 34 # 35 Hen.VIlI^ Hi, The
bonde of euery whiche faggotte to conteine three quarters
of a yarde. 1690 LOCKE Hum. Und. ii. x.xiii, What con-
ceivable Hoops, what Bond he can imagine to hold this
mass of Matter. 1879 JEFFERIKS Wild Life S. County 123
Binding [the thatch] down with a cross work of bonds, to
prevent the gales, .unroofing the rick.
tb. Formerly more generally, string, band. tie'.
1388 WVCLIF Judges xvi. 13 If thou plattist seuene heeris
of myn heed with a strong boond. c 1450 Merlin xxui. 425
Bounden to the sadell with two bondes. a 1550 Kyng fy
Hermit 466 in Hazl. E. P. P. 31 The frere gaff him bow in
hond, lake, he seyd, draw up the bond. 1674 Pardon of
Rome in Staveley Rom.Horseleach (17691 55 In the Chirch
of St. Crucis. .there is a Bond that Chryst was led with to
his Crucifyeing.
fig. c 1250 Gen.
ois dremes bond.
Ex, 2113 Non so wis. .De ku3e undon
<
A
1 3. bandage. Obs.
1382 WYCLIF John xi. 44 And anoon he that was deed,
cam forth, bounden the hondis and feet with bondis \_i6n
graue-clothes]. 1541 R.COPLAND GuydotCs Quest, Chirurg,^
What quantite of length and brede ought the bondes to be ?
1670 EACHARD Cent. Clergy in Arb. Garner VII. 259 To
make a bond or give a glyster.
1 4. A
quantity bound together bunch, bundle.
c 1462 Wright's Chaste Wife 226 Sche toke hym a bonde
[of hemp] And bade hym fast on to bete. 1483 CAXTON
. .
Gold. Leg, 67/1 Abygail toke,.C bondes of grapes dreyde.
II. fig. A
restraining or uniting force.
5. (.fig' from
circumstance that tram-
i) Any
mels or takes away freedom of action a force
which enslaves the mind through the affections or
passion; in//, trammels, shackles.
c 1250 Gen. <$ Ex. 2716 Moyses hente Se cherl wiS hist
wond, And he fel dun in dedes bond. 1398 TREVISA Earth.
De P. A', in. xiii. (1495) 57 The soule..muste
bonde of the body that he is joyned to. c 1440 Gesta. Rom.
ii.7 Helde in the bond of seruitute of synne. 1526 Pilgr,
Per/. i\V. de W. 1531} 57 Thou must cutte away all out-
warde bondes whiche. .sholde be let or hynderaunce to per-
feccyon. 1832 LANDER E.rped. Niger \\. vi. 129 Nor does
the marriage ceremony break the bonds of the woman's
slavery. 1871 MORLEY Voltaire 'i886j 25 Hindered by the
tight bonds of an old order.
6. A
constraining force or tie acting upon the
mind, and recognised by it as obligatory.
1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. 260 pe bondes of homage & feaute.
1592 WEST Symbol i. 2 Therefore it is termed the bond
i.
of right or law. 1651 HOPBES Leviatk. xiv. 65 The Bonds,
by which men are bound, and obliged. 1769 Junitts Lett.
i. Q Justice
is, perhaps, the firmest bond to secure a cheer-
ful submission of the people, a 1876 J. H. NEWMAN Hist.
Sk. (1876) I. i. iv. 172 What serves as a bond to-day will be
equally serviceable to-morrow.
tb.
Obligation, duty. Obs.
1449 PECOCK Repr. in. vii. 316 The ensaumple
<
makith
no boond that preestis
lyue withoute endewing of vnmou-
. .
able possessions. 1526 Pilgr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) i6ob,
Prayers of bonde or duty. 1535 Br. GAKUINF.R in Strype
Eccl. Mem. I. n. App. lx. 148, I know my duty and bond
to your highnes. 1643 BURROUGHES Exp. Hosea v. (1652)
231 There is no such bond upon conscience, .as this, etc.
7. A
uniting or cementing force or influence by
which a union of any kind is maintained.
WYCLIF Epfas. iv. 3 Besy for to kepc vnite of spirit
1382
bond of pees. 1549 Bk. Com. Prayer, Quinquag.
in the
Sunday Collect, Charitie, the verie bonde of peace and all
venue. 1690 LOCKE Hum. Und. in. xi, Speech being the
g reat Bond that holds Society together. 1789 BELSHAM Ess.
I. viii. 163 An
.
urgent and obvious want of some common
bond of union. 1820 W. IRVING Sk. Bk. I. 43 The only bond
that can keep hearts together unreserved community of
thought and feeling.
b. Senses 6, 7, and 8 seem to be present in the
of wedlock or matrimony.
1553 HCLOET, Bonde of matrimonye or wedlocke. 1601
SHAKS. Jnl. C. n. i. 280 Within the Bond of Marriage. 1645
MILTON Tetrach. Wks. 1738 I. 241 That divorce which
981 BOND.
finally dissolves the bond, and frees both parties to a second c. The distance which the lower edge of
Slating.
Marriage. 1712 HUGHES Spcct. No. 525 r i He is ready to one roofing-slate or tile extends beyond the nail
enter into the bonds of matrimony. 1859 TENNYSON Elaine
1200 Our bond is not the bond of man and wife. of the one below it.
8. An agreement or engagement binding on him 1677 MOXON Mt-ch. Exerc. (1703) 157 When Workmen
say make good Bond, they mean fasten the two or more
who makes it. b. A covenant between two or pieces of Timber well together. Ibid. 259 Do not work
more persons. any Wall above 3 foot high before you work up the next
make good Bond in the
1330 R. BRUNN> Chron, 311 If be Kyng .. had mad bat adjoining Wall, that so you may . .
bond, & drawen it. c 1386 CHAUCER Frankl, T. 806, I yow Work. 1793 SMKATON Edystonc L. 82 The tail of the
header was made to have an adequate bond with ihe interior
ye han maad
relesse. .euery surement and euery bond That
tome, c 1500 Lancelot 1673 O kingisword shufd beakingis P. NICHOLSON Pract, Build. 347 Bricks are laid
parts. 1823
bonde. 1535 CoVERDALH Josh. ix. nWeareyoureseruauntes, m a varied, but regular, form of connection, or liond. Ibid.
!
therfore make now a bonde with vs. a 1564 BECON De- 352 You will have proper bond; and the key-bond in the
mands Holy Script, in Prayers, $c. 11844) 618 This confir- middle of the arche>. 1869 PHILLIPS Vcsuv. ii. 34 York bond
mation is as it were a discharge of the godfathers bounds. being made of broad bricks laid in several courses among
c 1610 SIR J. MELVIL Man. (1735) 12 A Bond offensive and squared small stone, 1872 YEATS Teehu. Hist, Cotnm. 87
defensive. 1759 ROBERTSON Hist. Scot, I. vii. 496 To unite They used large thin bricks or wall-tiles as a bond for their
the party a bond of confederacy was formed. 1810 COLK- rubble construction.
RIDGE Friend (l%b$} i7iThe whole treaty of Amiens is little IV. 14. Cotnb. as (sense i) bond-led, -stript
:
more than a perplexed bond of compromise respecting Malta.
t
(stripped of bonds) adjs. (sense 7, bond-friend
1833 MARRYAT P. Simple 1863' 145 My word's as good ?s
; ;
\
my bond. 1851 Coal-tr. Terms Xorthuinhrld. <fy Dnrh. 8 ;sense 9) bond-creditor, -debt (sense 1 3) bond-piece ; ;
Bond, the agreement to hire between coal owners and pitmen. bond-stone BONDER bond-timber see quot. ;
.
fc. To enter bonds to give a bund, pledge one-
: Also BOND-HOLDER. QT bail bond, bond of caution,
self (obs.']. To put under bonds : see quot. corroboration, uianrent, presentation, relief, settle-
1563-87 FOXE A. <y M. III. 353 If I shall enter bonds, ment, etc., see under BAIL si'. 1 ;, CAUTION. Cuit-
covenant, and promise to appear. 1809 KENDALL Trai III. 1
.
Ixxxii. 253 To put a prisoner under bonds is to order him ROBOKATIO.V, etc.
ifioLond. Gaz. No. 4701 ''3 The 'Bond Creditors of Philip,
to find bail.
name for the late Earl of Pembroke .. are desired, .to bring their Bonds-.
III. Legal and technical senses. 1768 UI.ACKSTONE Conun. III. 397 In order to strengthen a
9. Eng. Law. A
deed, by which (known as A bond-creditor's security. 1707 Loud. Gaz. Xo. 4343/8 The
the obligor} binds himself, his heirs, executors, or Bond-Creditors are desired to meet the Administrator
. . . .
to certifie their said 'Bond Debts. 1858 LD. Si. I.-KONAKU^
assigns to pay certain sum of money to B (known
a Handy ttk. rrop. Law
xxiv. 186 Where an estate of a de-
as the obligee}^ or his heirs, etc. ceased debtor is liable to a bond debt, which binds the heir.
1860 U UVLINSON Herodotus vii. ccxxxvii. IV. 195, Speaking
A may bind himself to this payment absolutely and un-
ill of Demaratus, who is
my*bond-friend. a 1618 SYLVESTER
conditionally, in which case the deed is known as a single
or simple bond (simple.* obligation bonds in this form are
:
[)n Bnrtus, Maidens Mush 1621.1 8^3 The Father makes the 1
Hereon he layes His 'bond-led, blind-led Son. 1862
obsolete Or a condition may be attached that the deed Pile :
shall be made void by the payment, by a certain date, of SMILES Engineers II. 29 The long pieces or stretchers were
retained between the two headers or "bond-pieces. 1879 Cu.-
money, rent, etc. due from A to B, or by some other per-
'
formance or observance, the sum named being only a penalty sett's Tec /in. Kdiii .1.98 Bond-stones are stones placed with
to enforce the performance of the condition, in which case their greatest length going through the thickness of the
the deed is termed a penal bond. wall. 1855 SIXGLETOX I'irgil I. 274 The other. .Uplifted to
1592 WEST Symbol. B ij. 31 For a written Bond, is a Con- the stars his "bond-stript hands. 1823 P. NICHOLSON Pract,
tract whereby any man confesseth him>elfe by his writing Build. 219 *BoHfl-tintberSi horizontal pieces, built in stone
orderly made, sealed, and deliuered to owe any thing unto
or brick walls, for strengthening them. 1785 BL-RKI-; *\'ut:
him with whom he contracteth. 1596 SHAKS. Mcrc/i. I i. Hi. '.
Arcofs Debts Wks. IV. 233 So known and established a
*
146 Goe with me to a Notarie, scale me there Your single bond. bond-vendor, as the nabob of Arcot, one who keeps him-
a 1656 BP. HALLAV///. IMs. (16601 282 One cares to make his self the largest bond warehouse in the world.
mony sure by good bonds. 1805 J. POOLK Reply R, Gardiner Bond ,b^nd), sl>.~ andrt. Forms: 3-6 bonde, 5
2 Devaux
having lost the original bons
. .
importuned him . .
bouude, 6 band^e, buud 3- bond. [Early ME. ,
until he signed afresh set. 1809 R. I,.\SGFORD Introd. Trade
bunde OE. bonda, bitnda husbandman, house-
105 A bond, for money lent is a deed in writing, whereby
. .
:
one person binds himself to another, to pay a sum of money, holder, husband, a. ON. bottde(-i}. contr. ofbdande,
or perform some other act. 1844 H. H. WILSON Brit. India. btcande occupier <
and tiller of the soil, peasant,
1.495 The Company petitioned the House of Commons for husbandman husband', ppl* sb. from bt'ia, boa
permission to raise two millions upon bond.
;
to dwell, L. colere, and thus equivalent in sense and
b. Scotch Law. A
mortgage.
;
i86eBURTON Bk.-hunter n. ijj We [Scotch] speak of a etymology to Ger. batter. In Iceland the bonde was
bond instead of a mortgage. a peasant proprietor including all owners of land
'
10. A
document of this nature v but not necessarily from the petty freeholder to the franklin. In the
or- usually in the form of an more despotic Norway and Denmark, bvndi be-
ordinary bond) issued
by a government or public company borrowing came a word of contempt, denoting the common
in modern use low people and in mod. Da. bonder means plebs.
money: synonymous \\\\\\ debenture. ;
; 1651 Proc. Parliament No. 123. 1902 Large sums of Loan In the Icelandic Commonwealth the word has a
Money, Borrowed money on the Publick bonds. 1788 J.
POWELL Devises (18^7) II. 25 Bonds of turnpike commis- good sense, and is often used of the foremost
men this notion of the word (a franklin; still
sioners, and navigation shares. 1873 Law Rep, 8 Q.B.
. .
'
179 The bond numbered B. 499 was drawn as one of those prevails in the mind of Icelanders
. .
;Vigf.}. In
to be paid off. .according to the conditions printed on the
suffre for the OE., bonda, bitnda appears first in the Laws of
back of the debenture. 1881 MORLEY Cohden II. 221 Friends
Cnut, apparently in the same sense as in ON.,
..recommended him only to hold bonds or paid-up shares.
and nearly, if not entirely, = OE. ceorl. When,
11. Surety; one who becomes bail.
1632 Star Chamb. Cases 18861 278 Some of them appeared
( through the effects of the Norman Conquest, the
by bond. 1667 PI-I-YS Diary (1879) IV. 266 The King of ceorl sankfrom the position of a free-man tilling
Kngland shall oe bond fur him. his own
land to that of a tenant bound to certain
12. In bond', (goods liable to customs-duty) services a lord see Freeman Norm. Conq. V.
to
stored in special warehouses v known as bonded or
477), bonde became equivalent to villain ', and so
'
bonding warehouses or stores** under charge of at length to serf, slave' (sense 3), and was thence-
'
custom-house officers, till it is convenient to the forth evidently associated with BoM) sb. 1 and
importer to pay the customs-duty and take posses- HOUND. Hence the occas. variant bande: \i\\\. boimdc
\. sion. The importer on entering the goods pledges may represent the OE. variant bitnda.]
himself by bond to redeem them by paying the A. sb. Obs.
duty. So to fake out of bond, release from bond, 1 1. Householder, master of the house ;
husband.
1851 HT. MARTINLAU Hist. Peace v. xiv, More foreign corn in
was let out of bond. 1853 MCULLOCH Taxation \\, x. 350 (Only OE.)
t
lozs Laws ofCmtt pol. 8 <
Bosw.i Swa ymbe friSes bote,
Taking the price of bohea and low congou in bond in Lon- swa "5am hondan [v. r. bundan] si selost. Ibid, pol. 70 And
don at is. per Ib. 1863 FAWCETT Pol. Kcon. n. iii. 1876) 552 bonda [bunda] beclypod ware. Ibid. pol. 74 Ne maj
1
. .
A merchant may not wish to sell immediately the goods he ^if se
nan wif hire bondan [bundan] forbeodan, 6a;t he ne mtfte,
imports, he is therefore permitted to place them m bond.
etc. [the Latin versions have bonda i.e. paterfamilias. 1
13. Technical uses a. Bricklaying and Masonry.
:
f2. Peasant, churl. Often used as a designa-
The connexion or union of the bricks or stones in tion of rank or condition below burgess ^and then
a wall or structure by making them overlap and also put collectively, or (?)as adjective).
hold together ; a method of disposing the bricks (.1205 LAV. 15201 perwes of Salesburi an oht bonde [c 1175
in a wall by which the whole is bound into one par was a bond! icumen. c 1275 Passion of onr Lord in O. E.
Mt'sc. 56 Heo. .fulledekinges, eorles & bondes. 1350 Wilt.
compact mass
<
as in English bond, that in which
:
Paterne 2128 Barouns, burgeys & bonde ft alle oj>er burnes.
the bricks are placed in alternate courses of
1393 LASGL. P. PI. C. iv. 201 Trewe burgeis and bonde to
'headers' (bricks laid with their ends towards the naunt hue bringe)j oftc. la 1450 Chester PI. II. 187 When
face of the wall or structure) and 'stretchers' I soughte silver . . Of baron, burges, or of bande.
f3. Base vassal, serf [transl. med.L. nativus\\
(bricks laid longitudinally) Flemish bond, that in
;
one in bondage to a superior a slave alsoyf^.
which each course consists of alternate headers' * ; ;
*
and stretchers ; garden bond, etc. also a brick
'
(In late examples blending with the adjective use.)
c'lyo Sir Tristr. 971 To long ichaue ben hirbond. 1*1340
;
or stone placed lengthways
through a wall to bind Cursor M. 4188 Sel him forb to yone chapmen to be bair . .
and strengthen it, a binder, bond-stone, b. Car- bonde [earlier MSS. thral] for euer-lastande. 1393 LANGL.
P. PI, C. xi. 263 A bastarde, a bounde, a begeneldes douhter.
pentry. The jointing or fastening of two or more
c 1440 Prontp. Pan-. 43 Bonde as a man or woman, servus
pieces of timber together also in //. the timbers ;
serva. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 83 A mayde ser-
used for strengthening the walls of a building. uaunt, thrall and bonde. 1535 STEWART Cron.Scot. 11.499
 BOND. 982 BONDMAN.
Tha war maid to be bondis and thrall. 1583 T. WATSON 4 6 Appearing and standing
1 for right and freedom, against
. . 2. A person who puts goods into bond, or owi
Poems (1870) 76, I Hue her bond, which neither is my foe, the bondages, which, contrary to engagements, covenants inbond.
goods
Nor frend. 1618 BOLTON Florus (1636) 131 A very base and promises, were put upon the good people of this land.
fellow, unknown whether a free man, or a bond. 2. The position or condition of a serf or slave
Bonder - (Vndaj). [A wrong formation fro
II

Norweg. bonde, pi. bonder.] A Norwegian peasa

;

B.
adj. servitude, serfdom, slavery.
1. In a state of serfdom or slavery not free in farmer or petty freeholder. Bonderman.
; ;
1330 K. BRUNNE Chron. 71 In bat bondage, batbrouht was
ouer J; se, Now ere J>ei in seruage fulle fele pat or was fre. 1848 Frascr's Mag. XXXVIII. 182 On the white-scour
bondage AlsoySg*. arch.
{to}. deal floors of the bonder's house.
1398 Barth. DC P. R. vi. xv. (1495) 199 Some seruauntes 1856 EMERSON En
1330 R. BRLTNNE Chron. 171 Lered men & lay, fre & bond Traits\\ 63 The Heimskringla .is the Iliad andOdyss
T ' '

of toune. c 1440 Partonope 1497 The bonde kynred I made ben bonde, and bore in bondage. 1460 CAPGRAVE Chron, . .

of English history. .The actors are bonders or landholdei

free. Z 4^3 Cath. Angl. 36 Bonde, natittns, sernilis.
TINDALE John viii. 33 And were never bonde to eny man.
1551-6 ROBINSON tr. More's Utop. 125 He restoreth the
1526 30 That wretchid bondage of the Hebrew puple in Egipt.
1593 SMAKS. Rich, //, i. iii. 89 Neuer did Captiue with a every one of whom is named. 1870 MORRIS Earthly PC,
II. III. 81 Knight, or fair lord If thou mayst share a bo
1671 MILTON
. .

freer heart, Cast off his cbaines of bondage.

Samson- 270 What more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And der's feast, Sit by me. 1804 A". Brit. Rev. No. 80. 425
bonde persone from seruitude to Hbertie. 1571 ASCHAM
!

Than to
the Norwegian Olaf. .forced his lendermen and bonderni'
Scholem. (18631 7 Makyng them selves bonde to vanitie by their vices brought to servitude, love Bondage . .to overthrow the

and vice. 1611 BIBLE i Co r. xii. 13 Whether wee bee lewes more than Liberty. 1830 MACKINTOSH Eth, Phiios, Wks. temples.
or Gentiles, whether wee bee bond or free, a 1625 BOYS 1846 I. 52 Those who purchased them, nor those who hold
t
Bo'iidhold. Obs. exc. hist. [f. BOND si
IVks. 11630) 115 Christ was made bond vnto the law, to them in bondage. + HOLD
copyhold, freehold."] Tenure in bor
: cf.
redeeme them that were bound vnto the law. 1866 FERRIER \ b. Applied to the condition of being bound service, tenure of bond-land ; a distinct sort
Grk. Phiios. I. x. 240 Sensation, .is bond, not free. (Cf. service, servitude., Obs.
apprentice, cofyhold. Also attrib.
t 2. Of or pertaining to slaves servile, slavish. ; (t
1577 SIR T. SMITH Commit-. Eng, m. x. 11609) 12 9 1611 Anct. Customs Knaresboro <$ Scrivcn (1844) 4 If ai
1

139&TREV1SA Earth. DC P. R. \\. xi. '1495) 195 Aseruyng Another kind of seruitude or bondage is v=ed in England. .
bondholder there die seized of six acres of bondhold land.
woman of bonde condycion. 1526 Pilgr. Per/. tW. de \V.) which is called apprenticehood.
t Bondholder
*. Obs. exc. Hist. [f. prec.
73 This feare is called the seruylc feare, or the bonde C. transf. The condition of being bound or tied
feare.
a 1567 COVERDALE Bk. Death n. ii. 223 Is it not a bonde, -EB ; or f. BOXD sb.* + HOLDER.] tenant A
gredy and voluptuous thinge to spoyle the deade coarse.
up that which binds, poet.
;
bond service, or of bond-land.
*597 SHAKS. Lovers Compl. 34 Some [hair] in her threaden
II Bond, J/'. 3
[Du. bond league, confederation fillet still did bide, And true to bondage would not break
1539 Will T.E-'crard of Sizewell, Suffolk Somerset H '

[Witnesses described as Bond-holders]. 1611 [see prec.]

(-Ger.^//rf) i.hinden to bind.] In reference to from thence. 1611 Cymh. v. v. 306 Cym. Bmde the
the Dutch-speaking population of South Africa : Offender. ./>r/. Let his Armes alone, They were nol borne Bondholder - (bfrndho^ldaa). [f. BOND si

A Hence Bondsmen. for bondage. 1728 THOMSON Spring 649 The callow young + HOLDER.] A person who holds a bond
league or confederation.
t)
Warmed and expanded into perfect life, Their brittle bond- bonds granted by a private person or by a publ
1884 Times 6 Mar. 7/6 The Afrikander Bond, .was send-
age break.
ing petitions that the Basutos should be handed back to company or government, as Egyptian bondholdt
the British Government. Ibid. The views of many members 3. Jig. Subjection to some bond, binding power, a holder of Egyptian government bonds.
returned to parliament as Bondsmen. 1886 Pall Mall G. influence, or obligation.
22 Apr. 3/1 Whether the continued affiliation of the Bond
So Bo'ndholding a.
ct
1450 Knt. de la Tour (18681 55 One synne puttithe her 1844 N. Afit'f. Rtrv, Jan., A contract made by the Sti
beyond the boundary of the colony was ad\isable. into this seruage and bondage. 1540 COVKRDALE Old
. .

and the Banks with every bondholder. 1865 Raiku. Nf

Bond (bjmd), v. [f. BOND sb\]
Faith Prol. (1844! 4 The bondage of sin and vice. 1651
Dec., A committee of preference bondholders. 1868 J/0?
1. trans, in Building To bind or connect together CALDERWOOD Hist. Kirk 11843) H- 2I Subject to death, and
:

to the boundage of the same, a 1716 SOUTH ij.i To be ing Star 2 June, The Eastern *bondholding wing oft
I bricks, stones, or different parts of a structure; by Democracy. 1880 LORD HATHKRLY Law Rep. 5 App. Ca:
brought under the bondage of observing oaths. 1866 ARGYLL 189 On behalf of the bondholders, who advanced th
making one overlap and hold to another, so as to Reign Law vii. ied. 4) 362 The bondage under which all money upon the bonds of the company.
true Science lies to fact.
give solidity to the whole ; to hold or bind together Bonding (bp-ndir)),vt>I.sl>. [f.
BOND v. + -IXG :

tb. Binding force, obligation. Obs.

by bond-stones, clamps, etc.
1677 MOXON Mech. Exerc. (.17031 260 Other Work adjoin-
1611 SHAKS. Cymb. u. iv.m The Vowes of Women, Of
1. Building. or connecting togetl
or parts of a structure) by makii
The binding
ing, that should be bonded or worked up together with
no more bondage be, to where they are made, Then they x bricks, stones,

them. 1793 SMEATON Edystone L. 82 The blocks of stone a.reto their Venues. them overlap and hold together ; also, binding
could be bonded to the rock, and to one another. 1858 tyrndedg), v. Obs. or arch. [f. prec. strengthening by means of bonders.
NEALE Bernard dc ^!. 27 Thine ageless walls are bonded trans. To reduce to bondage, to enslave. 1677 MOXON Meek. EXCYC. (1703) 257 The well-worki
With amethyst unpriced. 1862 SMILES Engineers II. 29 sb.]
1611 HEYWOOD Gold. Age iv. i. Wks. 1874 III. 59 To and bonding of Brick-walls conduces very much to th
The best mode of bonding the blocks of stone to the rock strength. 1879 SIR G. SCOTT Led. Archil. II. 36Thebondi
bondage me that am a princesse free. 1803 J. BRISTED
b. To build up ; coals, etc.) in a stack. Pedest. Tottr\. 354 Shackling and bondaging the better sex. of [pilaster strips] by alternate vertical & horizontal ston
1865 Times 30 May, Instructions, .that the coals were to b. attrib.
' '

Bondaged [b^rnded^d), ///. a. arch. [f. prec.

be bonded /. c. built
up by themselves. 1852 WRIGHT Celt, Rom. ^ Sax. v. 158 The Roman brk
2. intr. To hold together so as to give solidity. + -Ei) 1 .] Reduced to bondage, enslaved. or tiles . were built in as bonding courses.
. 1864 z<

Comm. A.WILSON Fly $

1790 Leech, Mean, ugly lump of bondaged Standard Oct., [Roman] wall consisting of reguA
1836 Scenes by Lattd <y 5. 288 In building, the . .

bricklayer takes care to lay the bricks in a certain manner,

>loth. 1852 D. MOIR Cast, Time viii, Life forfeited, and ashlar, alternating with rows of bonding tiles. 1884 Heat
to make them bond. bondaged land. 1853 LYNCH Self-Improv, vi. 150 [Chris- Kxhib. Catal. 93/2 Bonding Bricks for hollow walls.
To encumber with bonded tianity] presupposes the bondaged insufficiency of men. 2. The action of pledging under bond to the i
3. trans. debt ;
to
mortgage.
Bondage!* 'Jv nded.sai). Sc. [f. BONDAGE sb. payment of money borrowed.
I c + -EU.J One who performs bondage-service 1877 BURROUGHS Taxation 407 The assent.. of the U
1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 938/1
:

They said the road, .was,

too heavily bonded. spec, in recent times, in the south of Scotland and payers to the bonding of the town.
4. To put into bond (see BOND sb.l i-'). Northumberland, a female out-worker, whom the 3. The storing of goods in bond ; hence bondia
[See BONDED///, a. 2.]
occupier of a cot-house on a farm, and generally house, -warehouse.
5. To subject to bondage. '
'

also each hind or married farm-wurker occupy- 1865 DRAPER [ntcll. Dtr. Europe iv. 96 This implied

1835 MARRVAT Olla Podr. xxiv, His wife, .will be bonded *

extensive system of depots and bonding. 1863 FAWCE
in the same manner. ing a hind's house ', undertakes, as a condition j'tit. Econ. iv. iii. (18761 552 Bonding-houses offer gn
obs. form of BOUND obs. pa. t. BIND v. of his tenancy, to supply from his own family, or advantages to those who import taxed commodities.
Bond.e, ;
. .

Also 5 bondeage, 6-7 else to engage, board, and lodge, to do regular Bond-land.[OE. bondeland, i. bonda, Bo:
Bondage (bp'nded^'.
field-labour on the farm. + LAND.] Land held by bondage
J/'.S tenure; :

boundage. bondage, a. AF. bondage or ad.

[ME. %

[Not in JAMIESOX 1808-25.] '837 HOWITT Rttr. Life early form of copyhold land.
Anglo-L. bondagiutn, f. BOND sb.~ (in AF. bond. n. iv. 1186^1 119 These ftmale bands in the fields. I heard hcCuobr
.
[ciuo O. E. Chron. iLaud MS.) pa an. 777 let
bonde, in Anglo-L. bondus) + -AGE. The natural these women called liondagers. 1844 H. STEPHENS Bk. ealdorma[n]xbonde-land [terrain x nmncntium\ at Swii
English formation was BONDEHEDE, or bondescipe, Farm II. 386 The first class of ploughmen were each bound heafde.] 1861 PEARSON Early f, Mid. Ages Er.g. 200 ll
BONDSHIP. In later times associated in thought to supply a field-worker for the farm during the year.. probable that the freemen upon
bond-land were in the n
these latter have long been designated by the odious name instance Britons who retained their holding on condition
with BOND sb^, as of a man *in bonds', or con- of bondagers. 1853 JOHNSTON ffat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 106
paying tribute. i88a C. ELTON Orig. Eng. Hist. 192
strained by a bond see esp. senses 2 c, 3.]
: The row of bondagers on the haugh with the light rattle of some places., there are two kinds of copyhold tend, the c
fl. The tenure of a bonde or BOND after 1855 A. SOMEKVILLB A ntobiog. 6 When we lived
'

the their hoes. called Bond-land and the other Soke-land

' '
'.

in Springfield, the house rent was paid by finding one shearer + -LES>
Xorman Conquest ; tenure in villenage ; the service for the harvest, .also an outfield worker winter and summer
Bondless (ly-ndles), a. [f. BOND st.l
rendered by a bonde. Obs. '
for the farmer. .[The Litter] called the bondager was paid
'
Free from bonds unfettered, unrestrained. ;

1839 BAILEY festia iv. (1848) 33 Such as my bondless

br;
[? a 1300 Leges Baron, Scot. Ivi. 3 Si autem nativi domino ten-pence per day. 1869 Pall Mall G, 3 Aug. 12.
suo negent nativitatem suain, sive Bondagium, lunc atta- hath oft-times drawn.
chiabuntur per Ministros Domini Regis, 1381 Charter cj
Bonded (bonded), ///. a. [f. BOND sbl + -ED.] Obs. rare- 1
BOND sb.-
1. Held, pledged, or confirmed by bond.
t Bo'ndling. ,
[f.
Rich. II. in Walsingham 254 <Du Cange* Et eprum quem-
libet ab omni bondagio exuimus, et quietos facimus. I Hit. 1597 SHAKS. L0rcrs Compl. 279 That strong bonded oth. -LING.] A slave ;
a slave-child.
1587 GOLDING DC
Mornay xxiii. (1617) 379 They sacnfic
270 Quod nulla acra terrae quae in Bondagio vel servitio 1844 TUPPER Proverb. Phiios. (1852)384 Death, .hath seized
none but their. .Changelings, Bastards and Bondlings.
tenebit, altius quain ad 4 denarios haberetur.] 1651 Proc. his bonded debtor.
Parliament No. 126. 1951 Set free from their former de- 2. Put into bond sce BOND sb.\ 12). Hence t Bo'ndly, cuiv. Obs. sb. + -LY*.]
[f.
BOND
v
pendencies and bondage services & shall be admitted as bonded 1. ?
By bondhold.
Tenants, Freeholders.
warehouse, a store or warehouse
store, wold put In
1463 MARG. PASTON Lett. 504 II. 191 They
b. Sc. ' Sen-ices due by a tenant to the proprietor,
in charge of Custom-house officials, in which goods owte of such londs as they huld bondly of the Lordshyp.
or by a cottager [rather cotter] to the farmer.' Jam. may be kept in bond. 2. Servilely as a slave or slaves. ;

1809 R. LANGFORU/^/W. Trade 130 Bonded goods* goods

1553 W. TURNER in btrype Efd. Mem.
III. I. iv. 4?
c. esp. The
service of the BONDAUER.
(These are relics of sense i surviving to modern times in
deposited in a warehouse till the duty is paid. 1851 Hi. sawthem [the bishops] how slavely and bondly they ham
MARIINHAU Hist. Peace iv. xiv, The bonded stores con- the rest of the Clergy.
Scotland and adjacent parts of England.) nected with the Dublin custom-house. 1868 ROGERS Pol.
1818 Edin. Mag. Aug. 126-7 (JAM.) The farmer holds his Bondman .bVndmin). arch. ;
cf. BoHBUU
. .
Eeon. x.xii. led. 3* 289 Bonded warehouses, in which duty-
farm from the landlord for payment of a certain sum of
. .

paying goods, whether liable to customs or excise, are [f.

husband, husbandma,
BOND sb? + MAN : cf.
money; a certain number of days' work with his horses, stored till they are needed for sale. 1884 Pall Mall G. 15 but in later times evidently connected in thoug
carts, and men. -The very name that this service gets here,
Aug. 5/2 Wholesale and bonded supplies of the article. with senses of BOND rf. ! ]
bondage, indicates the light in which it is viewed by the
tenantry. 1845 AVw Statist. A cc. Scott. XII. 1004 What
t Bo'ndehede. Obs. rare. [f. ME. bonde, 1. BOND sb:- 2. Obs. exc. Hist.
was termed bondages to the heritor, which embraced the BOND sb? + -HEAD.]-hede,The condition of a c Mom chapmon and mom ri
1350 O-ail ft Night. 1577
en
labour of man and bea^t, long and short carriages, and the bond or vassal vassalage bondage. .And swa deb moni bondeman. a 1300 Havelt* 32
Act "}. a
.
; ;

yearly payment of poultry, and in some cases of sheep, c 1340 Cursor M. 5405 (Fairf.) Attebou vstake in J>i bonde- louede. Knict, bondeman, and swain. i53-4
.

butter and tallow, are now abolished. hede [i\ r. thainhede, bundhede], In bondehede [r r. p

.
C. 1872 E. ROBERTSON Hist. Ess, 99 The bondage-system,
thainhed, thraldam, J>raldome] take our landes alle.
entailing the necessity of finding extra labour in field
. .

work. 1872 J. THOMSON Peter Plough 8 The bothy system Bondel^l, obs. form of BUNDLE. four ploughs.] ,
there, like our bondage system here, is not as il should be. Bonder 1
(tyrndaj). [f. BOND v. + -EB.] 2. A a villein a serf, slave.
man in bondage ;
;
,

Mod. The hind's daughter does the bondage work for the 1. Building. A binding stone or brick see quot.
; a 1340 HAMTOLE Pr. Cons:. 1155 Whar-to serves
man
L
house.
world ban, And mas hym be worldes bondman. M77
'

1845 Gloss. Goth. A rchit. \. 57 Bonders, bond-stones, bind'

t d. Arbitrary or tyrannical impost. Obs. ing-stones reach a considerable distance into, or entirely
. . RIVERS (Caxton>Z>K/ 25 To be solde as a prysonner
Bondeman. 1580 BARET Ak: B 920 A prysonner
f 1650 2nd Narr. taker
fate Parl. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793^ through a wall for the purpose of binding it together.
 BONDMANSHIP. 983 BONE.
re, a bondeman, a captiuc. 1605 CAMDEN Ron. 181 I.
it no Christian should be bondman to a Jew. Properly. and salts of carbonate and phosphate of lime in
1645
.TON Teirach. Wks. (1851) 150 Instead of freeing us.. 1. The general name for each of the distinct varying proportions.
:e us bondmen. 1866 BRYANT Death pfSlavery ii, Fields parts which unitedly make up the skeleton or 1471 Kii'LF.v t '<>//. Akh. i. in Ashrn. 116521 129 Dry as
:re the bondman's toil No more shall trench the soil. hard framework of the askys of Tre or Bone,
body of vertebrate animals. 1597 SHAKS. Lover's Compl. 45
Bond-man-blitut: old name oiBlind-maris-buff, They are distinguished, according to shape, as long, short, Many a ring of poised gold and bone. 1814 SIR H. DAVY
83 AINSWORTH Lat. Diet. (Morell)v, Afyinda. .The play Jlat, and irregular bones', the long bones have an' internal Agric, Chcm. 290 The basis of bone is constituted by earthy
ed bond-man-blind, blind-bob, or blind-man-buff. channel containing marrow. They are also named from salts.
'
1855 OWF.N Skel. -V Teeth 165 The primitive basis, or
+ The state their position, nature, form, etc., blastema,' of bone is a subtransparent glairy matter. 1874
lo'iulmaiiship. [f. prec. -SHIP.] e.g. ankle-, arm-, back-, BOUTELL Arms * Arm. vi. 83 Implements and weapons
condition of a serfdom, slavery. bondman ;
blade-, breast-, collar-Jaw-, splint-, thigh-bone, etc.
formed exclusively of wood and bone and stone.
<
iooo.-I^. Gosp. John xix. 36 Ne for-braece je nan ban
ill COTGR., Esclavage, slauerie, bondmanship ; villen- on him. a 1300 Cnrsor M. 9405 He wroght a felau of his ban. b. Applied to other animal substances more or
. 1880 MCCARTHY Own Times IV. xlviii. 6 He con-
1340 Ayenb. 148 Ase be buones bereb be tendre uless. 1382 less akin to bone as the dentine of the teeth, the
led to put himself into the comfortable bondmanship of ;

ordinate office. WvcuF^fizeA. xxxvii. 27 Bones wenten to boones, eche ivory of the tusks of the elephant, walrus, etc.
to his ioynture. 1398 TRF.VISA Barth. De P. R. v. i.
lo'ndship. Ots. or dial. [f.
Boxn sb:- + 11495' 99 The bones of the breste defende the herte. (See WHAI.KBONE.)
' 1483
:IP.] ) a. The condition of a bond
serfdom,
'

;
Caf/t. AngL 20/1 From bane to bane, ossim.
1549 Compl.
ayoo Erfurt Gloss. 351 i(). E. T.) Elvr, elpendes ban.
Scot. 152 Thecorrupitflesche is consumit fra the b.inis. Corpus Gl. 712 E/'or elpendbaan. t 1205 I.w. 23778 Ane
idage (obs.). b. Suretyship, (t/ia/.)
t
1592 sielde gude he wes :d cl.ine of olifantts bane, a
Parr. SHAKS. Rom. $ Jul. n. v. 27 Fie how my bones ake. 1681 1450 Sir
440 Promp. 43 Bondschepe, nativitas. 1477 E. SCLATKR Serm. Putney u
Weapons, that to be sure, Eglam. 1083 Crystyabelle, yowre doghtur bryght, As whyte
IL RIVERS {Caxtoni Dicfcs 20 Trust is in maner of a as bone of whalle. 1588 SHAKS. L.L.L. v. ii. 33.; His teeth
draw no Blood, nor break any Bones. 1872 HUXLKV Phys.
deship, and mystrust is a liberte. 1542 UDALL Erasm. i. 10 The bones, .are masses either of cartilage, or of con- as white as Whales bone. 1616 W. BROWNF. Brit. Past \\. .

iph. 59 a, Phryne, who, this other daye, Out of hir bonde- nective tissue hardened by being impregnated with phos- 67 (N. An ivory dart she held of good command; White
) did remoue. 1808 R. ANDI.RSON Cnntberld. Ballads was the bone. 1843 Penny CycL XXVII. 295 There are
phate and carbonate of lime. 1873 MIVART EUm. Anat.
9) 50 His fadder bed yence heaps ov money, But bon-
j

ii. 23 In the earlier

stages of existence there are no bones upwards of three hundred of these plate-, of whalebone on
throws monie fwok wrang. each side of the jaw 1870 NICHOLSON ZooL 462 The so-
>
at all. Proi>. Hard words break no bones.
onclslave (lyndsl^v). [f.
BOND + SLAVE.] a.
b. pi. as material for agricultural or industrial
called '
bone' of the skeleton of Fishes is only occasionally
true osseous tissue.
nore emphatic term for slave or bondman.
processes. 5. Applied to various articles, originally or usu-
61 DAUS tr. Bullinger^ on Apoc. (1573) 79 were, .very We 1814 SIR H. DAW Agric. Chem. 289 Bones are much used
desslaues of the deuill. 1577 tr. Bidlingers Decades as a manure. 1834 Brit. Hush. I. xix. 396 Turnips
ally manufactured of bone, ivory, whalebone, etc.
Now they, whome
.

440 the Lorde deliuereth, are bon- manured with bones. a. //. Dice.
1870 YEATS .\'at. Hist. Comm. 307
12)
les. 1611 BIBLE i Maci. ii. Of a free-woman shee is n Bones are extensively employed by the cutler, comb and .-1386 etc. [see BicciiF.n b). (71529 SKEI.IUN \Vks. ted.
3tne a bondslaue. 1671 MILTON Samson 38 Put to the brush maker, chemist, confectioner, and agriculturist. I. 52 On the bortle he
of a debased Lower than bondslave
Dycei whyrlcd a payre of bones.
>ur beast, 1848 1624 FI.KICHF.R Rule a \\'ifo \. Wks. 1778 111. 433 Thou
!

IGSLEY Saint's Trag. n. vi. 97 are sold for bond- We fc. Applied spec, to the lingers in the assevera-
won'st my money too, with a pair of base bones. 1724 SWH i

'es. tion By these fen bones. 'Obs.

Wood's E.\-<\\ Wks. 1755 V. n. 157 < nmestcr. I'll make hi-
ence Bond
slavery. f 1485 Digby Myst. 11882) 4 note,
By thes bony 5 ten thei bones rattle, 1822 Scon .\VA -/ xii, It" thine cars have heard
--
(

MARRYAT OUa Podr. xxiv, So are his children given

be to you vntrue. 1589 Pappew, Hatchet C iiij b, Martin the clatter of the devil's bones. 1848 THACKF.RAV Van. Pair
135
iOnd slavery to his debtor.
sweares by his ten bones. 1593 SHAKS. 2 Hen. 17, i. iii. Ixvii. No, no, Becky. .We must have the bones in.
By these tenne bones hee did speake them to me.
ondsmau (bp-ndzmin). [f. BOND sl>^ + -MAX,
193 . .

b. //. Pieces of bone struck or rattled, to make

being in sense I genitival ; sense 2 is treated
's
d. Proverb, expression Hard, or dry, as a bone.
:
rude music esp. two pieces of bone or ivory held
MARRVAT P. Simple i, It's as dry as a bone. 1837
1833
;

a variant of BONDMAN, which in later times had between the lingers of each hand and rattled to-
R. NICOLL Poems 1,1843) 83 Dub.s were hard as ony bane.
ne to be associated with BOND sb.l cf. the :
2. //. The whole bones of the body collectively, gether as an accompaniment to the banjo or other
ral bonds.'] the skeleton also, by extension, the bodily frame,
;
instrument; chiefly used by 'nigger minstrels'.
One who becomes surety by bond. Also humorously used as a name lor the player.
body, person (with pathetically humorous force).
54 RICHARDSON Grandison IV. iv. 26 Being the bonds- ,Cf. also MARROWBONE.)
1398 TRKVISA Barth. De P. R. \. Ivii. (1495) 172 The
l for the
duty of Mr. Beauchamp. 1828 E. IRVING Last bones ben the sadnesse of the body, a 1400 Sir Perc. 267 1590 SHAKS. Mids. X. \\. i. 33 Wilt thou heare some
ys 189 The disappointed creditors, the broken faith of musicke Let vs haue the tongs and the bones.
dsmen. 1871 Standard 20 Jan., Three of the leading
Nothyng. .That he my^teinne his bones hyde, Bot a gaytes . .
1851
skynne. 1489 CAXTON Monties t>/ Aymon iii. 108 Alarde.
< . Housch. H'onis III. 245 Now, the Ethiopians, .play old
i seized as security.
'
The Mayor paid the sum. .and the beganne to deffende well hys bones. 1563-87 FOXK A. $ banjoes and bones. 1865 Times 17 July, Amateur negro
nds men were released. AI, III. x. 92/1 He [Latinier] ran as fast as his old bones melodists, .thumbed the banjo and rattled the bones. 1884
. A man in bondage; a villein ;
a serf, slave. would carry him. 1601 SHAKS. Jul. C. v. v. 41 Night Sat. Rev. 7 June 740/1 A single row of negro minstrels seated
1735 DERHAM
J.) Carnal greedy people, without such a
t
hangs vpon mine eyes, my Bones would rest. 1605 Chron. on chairs, .while at the end are Bones and Sambo.
:ept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen K. Leir, What, breedes young bones already 1694 l.i -
c. //. 'A sort of bobbins, made of trotter bones,
beasts. 1815 SCOTT Ld. of IsU's \. viii. From chief- STRANGE &
sop's Fab. (J.i Puss had a month's mind to be
!

for \v\-aving bonelace.' J.

I's tower to bondsman's cot.
1851 MRS. BROWNING Casa upon the bones of him. 1709 J. STF.VF.NS Quevedo's If 'As. 305 1601 SHAKS. T^el. .V. n. iv. 46 The free maides that uv.-iue
'di Wind. 54 A bondsman Feeding on me Day and Night, which has brought me to
shivering at a Jesuit's foot. their thred with bones. 1691 RAY -V. C. ll'Js. y />'<>;;< s, bub-
1850 TKNNYSON In Mem. iv. 2 To Sleep I give my the very Bones. 1740 Christmas Entertainm, 16 Now
bins, because probably made at first of small Hones Henn:
',.

/ers away; -My will is bondsman to the dark. i

says she* take care of your bones between this and home. Bone~lacct
lO'uds woman, rare. Variant of BONDWOMAN'. 1873 M. F. S. Lily Merlon's Summer 28 Poor, pale, pretty
n little dear, .she'll never live to make old bones.
d. A
strip of whalebone used to stiffen stays,
B. JONSON Catiline n. ad fin., My lords, the senators
also attrib., as in bone-casing.
sold for slaves, and their wives for bondswomen. fb. Exclamation: bones of me! of you'. etc. ;

P P. IV 256
1588 Marprgl. Ep. tArb.t 44 The puritanes will be O the 1595 GOSSON Picas. Qnippet in Hazl. E. '.

Bonduc (bp-ndk). [a. F. bonJuc, a. Arab. These privie coates, by art made strong With bones. 1884
Ixjnesofyou too baddfor this kind of arguing. I^ZL'HKTTLK
UL> bttnduq, now meaning '
hazel-nut ', but for- Kind-harts Dr. (18411 70 Bones a me !
Dress Cutting Assoc. Circular ii, All the seam* should be
some kind prob. from C. The bones being the most permanent parts of opened, the edges neatly over-handed, and bone casings put
rly a foreign nut of ;
on. Mod. She had the misfortune to break one of the boiu-N
rsian OPers. had pendak, fctniak mod.Pers.
: the dead body, 'bones' is put for* mortal remains'. of her stays.
=
tuq,funduq, the latter also Arab.), perh. Skr.
1000 /KLFRIC Gen, 1. 25 And he cwseb Lsedeb mine ban of
<
6. Also in various comb, as CuiU bones, Ten-
' bison lande. c 1205 LAV. 32202 His ban beo$ iloken faste i
tdaka, dim. of pinda bones, Napier s bones, etc., q.v. f-SV. ffttgh's bones
!

ball, lump' (J. Platts).]

1362 LANCL. /'. PL A. vn. 84 pe Chirche
:

guldene chestc.
tropical leguminous shrub of two species (Gni- schal haue my Careyne And kepe mi Bones. 1592 NASHK see cjuot.
tiiiita BonJuc and G. BonJufdla in Shaks, C. Praise 5 Have his bones newe embalmed. 1616 1600 DF.KKER Gentle Craft iv. (1862) 15 Skoomaker, have
bearing re-
/riser, over Shakspere's Grave, Bleste be y* man y* spares you all your tools, .your hand-and thumb-leathersatid good
ictively yellow and lead-coloured seeds, hard
thes stones, And cvrst be he y* moves my bones. 1651 Pro, . Saint- Hughs IKJIICS to smooth up your work.
\
beautifully polished, also called Nicker-nuts. Parliament No. 82. 1255 He will reduce the place, or leave 6. A
bone (or part of one) with as much flesh '

96 RAV Phihs. Lett. 11718' 292, I have received .. the his bones before it. 1750 GRAY Efrgy^x, These bones from
in called the Ash Coloured X ickar or Bonduch. as adheres to it, a fragment of meat' (J.). Often
1838 Eaiji. insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh.
'ttation 79 The bonduc, or nicker-tree. 1866 Treas. 1880 TENNYSON Columbus, Then some one standing by my in comb, as aitch-, knnckle- t marrow-bonet etc.
556 The seeds are very hard and beautifully polished, c 1386 CHAIXKR Knights T. 319 We stryuen as dide the
grave will say, Behold the bones of Christopher Colon '.
'.
'

are called Nicker nuts or Bonduc nuts. houndes for the boon, c 1420 Ptwerb in AV/. Ant, I. 233
3. The bony structure or substance considered
[

londwoman (bjmdwuman). [Orig. two Two dogges and one bone Maye never accorde in one.
as one of the components of the body esp. in the ;
1816 SCOTT Ant it/, xxvii. 193 Til gie ye something better
rds BOND a.]
; female slave.
see A blood and bone, flesh and bone, skin and than that beef bane, man'. 1837 DISRAELI Corr. 7f. Sisffr
expressions,
187 TRF.VISA Higden (1865) II. 97 (Miitzn.) Leyre wile,
(Used as collect, sing.} 886^76, 1. .supped, .with a large party off oysters, (Juiness,
bone, bred in the bone, etc.
(i
endes for liggynge by a bondwommen. 1526 TINDALK Gttl.
and broiled bones.
jo Put awaye the bonde woman. 1671 MILTON P. R n. 308 .
c 1000 >ELFRIC Gen. ii. 23 Adam 3a cwaeS 3is is nu ban of
minum banuni. (11300 Cnrsor M. 194 (Gutt.> lesu him
b. Bones (fig.) something relished. :
e fugitive bondwoman, with her son, Outcast Nebaioth. '

J BURKE Reform [fa. Gvww.Wks. X. 102 Yorkshire, like raysed in fless and ban. c 1430 Hymns V'irg. (1867) 25 1884 Ti I'PER Heart vii. 61 Now, that's what 1 call bones.'
chUd of the bond-woman, is turned out^Jo the desert, Loue byndib bobe blood baan. 1562 J. HEYWOO^/Vw. Itwasacurrish image, suggestive of the choicest satisfaction.
a YEATS Techn. Hist. Comm. 143 The irtost exalted lady <V Epigr. (1867) 72 It will not out of the fleshe that is bred C. A
bone to pick vt gnaw something to occupy :

i no more in the bone. 1606 SHAKS. Tr. <$ Cr. in. iii. 172 High birth,
exempt than the lowliest bondwoman. 1611 BIBLK 2 Sam. xix.
one as a bone does a dog a difficulty to solve, a ;

lone Forms: I bin, baan, 2-3 vigor of bone, desert in scruice.

(b<nm), sb.
bone, and of my flesh ? 17x9 DF. FOK
my
(
nut to crack '. To have a, bone to pick ivith one :

13 Art thou not of

n 3~5 bon, (4 boen. buon), 4-5 boon, ^boone,
>
Crusoe (1840) II. i. i What Is bred in the bone will not go to have a matter of dispute, or something disagree-
bonne), 3- bone; north. 3-9 bane, 5 baan, out of the 1837 DICKENS Pickw. v, An immense
flesh.
able or needing explanation, to settle with a person.
brown horse displaying great symmetry of bone.
yne (9 dial, bowne, byen). [Com. Teut. 1565 COLIHILL Arisu Treat. Cron. (1846) 277 A bone for
: 1
; .

ban corresp. to OFris. and OS. ben (MDu.,

. b. To the bone through the flesh, so as to touch
:
you to pick on. 1579 GOSSON -SV//. Abuse (Arb. 30 Some )

the bone hence, to the inmost part, to the core. Archplayer will cast me a bone or ii to pick. 1601 FVL-
i., LG. been), OHG. (MHO. and mod.G.) bein, ;
. .

NECKBlXiM&r/fftig He..gaue them a bone to gnawe, Date

]. bcin (Sw. Da. OTeut. *iiaino(m~}, (Cf. backbone." Also similarly In the bone.
lien, /vol.. :

a 1300 Cnrsor M. 15788 Ilk dint bat bai him gaf it reked quod est Cassaris Caesari, and quod Dei Deo. 1783 AINS-
t
appearing in Gothic, and .unlike names of & WORTH Lat. Diet. iMorell) i. s. v. Pick, To give one a bone
to be ban. i 1400 ROM. Rose 1059 They prile poynten to pick, se,rnpnlnm alicni injuere. 1850 H. ROGERS Ess. 1 1
rtsof the
bodygenerally) not related to any words The folk right to the bare boon. 1709-10 Tatler(] ), There n. (1874! 103 Many a* bone in these lectures which a keen
'

'bone'outsideTeutonic. TheON.,OHG.,MHG., was lately a young gentleman bit to the bone. 1850 MRS. with the author. '

A metaphysician would be disposed to pick'

d Du., have, beside the STOWK Uncle Tom's C. iv. 17 cook she certainly was, in
general sense bone ', the
'

' the very bone and centre of her soul. 1858 CARLVLE Eredk. 7. Bone of
contention, discord, etc. something :

:cific shank (of the leg)', which is the

sense Gt. (1865) I. in. xx. 267 He
being Calvinist. .she Lutheran that causes contention, discord, etc. formerly also ;

Unary sense in mod.Ger. Hence it has been and strict to the bone. fahveen
phrase to cast a bone
in al-
simply bone in
. . :

Jgested that the original meaning was 'long lusion tothe strifewhich a bonecausesbetweendogs.
the
ne' and that the word may have connexion
; 1573 R. SCOT Hop'Gard. Epist., Greedy to tast of rti56a J. HKVU-OOD/VW. $ Epis>r. (1867147
The diuell
marrowe of gaines and loth to breake the bone of labour. hath cast a bone to set stryfe Betweene you. 1576 LAMBARDF.
th the OX. adj. bein-, nom. masc.
beinn, The real blood and bone of
1874 BLACKIF, Self-Cult. 84 Peramb. Kent 11826) 425 This became such a bone of dis-
night'. But is a bare this conjecture the human heroism. 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 517/1 The.. sention between these deere friends. 1660 Trial Regie. 79
;

.nding of the ON. adj. being itself obscure. In bone and sinew of the country. But you cast in Bones here to make some difference. 1692
iglish there has never been any tendency to the 4. The material or substance of the bones ;in R. LESTRANCE Josephns' Antiq. xvi. xi. <i733> 439 B V
of animal matter, essttn, this Means she. .cast in a Bone betwixt the Wife and the
ecilic sense, for which OE. had sceanca SHANK.] prec. senses), wnichconsists