We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1399-1412, 1490-1599

[0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

Bos, Boce, n.1 Also: bose, booce, bois(e. [Of obscure origin.] A leather bottle for wine or other liquids.a1400 Legends of the Saints xliii. 532.
I can wele fynd Thi powesté lik a bose of wynd That fillit ware
1412 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 389.
To prufe … that he had assithit fullely Lankyn Wist, marchand of Brugis, the price of a boce of Maluesye
1490 Acts Lords of Council 129/1.
Thre malvysy bocis, price of the pece, viij s. vj d.
c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matt. ix. 17.
Nouthir men puttis new wyne into ald boces [Wycl. botelis]
1535 Stewart 35782.
For that caus tha keipit it als clois, As men wald keip balme riche in ane bois
1546 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXI. 55 b.
Twa inglis bosis price xx s; sax sekkis
a1540 Freiris Berw. 157.
Haif thair ane pair of bossis, gud and fyne, Thay hald ane gallone full of Gascone wyne
a1540 Ib. 188.
The pair of bossis hes scho tone
a1578 Pitsc. I. 186/9.
The said Frincheman … send him the tuo bossis of mavasie
a1578 Ib. 14.
The bossis was of the quantatie of tuo gallouns the peace
1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. Pref. 24.
In rottin bosses no balme liquor lyes
1583 Ib. 921.
Seing his copburde come to nocht, Tua leathering bosses he hes bought
1589 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 540.
Ane bose for wyne, 6s. 8d.
1595 Duncan Appendix.
Uter, a wine boise
1590 Burel Pilgr. xxii.
The houlet had sick awful cryis Thay correspondit in the skyis As wind within a boce
1599 Black Bk. Taymouth 335.
[In the] Brewhous … off leddran bossis

b. Applied fig. to persons.c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2580.
Thocht sum of ȝow be gude of conditione, Reddy for to ressaue new recent wyne, I speik to ȝow auld bosis of perditione
1558-66 Knox I. 99.
For the parte of the clargie, Hay Dene of Restalrige, and certane old boses with him
1558-66 Ib. 127.
The Bischope preached to his jackmen and to some old bosses of the toune

3609

dost

Hide Advanced Search

Browse DOST:

    Loading...

Share: