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BOSS, BOCE, _s_ Any thing hollow

_Burel_

_The boss of the side_, the holloeen the ribs and the haunch, S

BOSS, BOISS, _s_

1 A small cask

_Pitscottie_

2 It seems to denote a bottle, perhaps one of earthen ware; such as is now vulgarly called a _gray-beard_

_Dunbar_

3 In pl _bosses_, _boisses_, a term of contempt, conjoined with _auld_, and applied to persons of a despicable or worthless character

_Knox_

From Fr _boire_, to drink, whence _boisson_, drink, or _busse_, a cask for holding wines

BOT, _conj_ But, often confounded with _but_, prep signifying, without

_Douglas_

A S _butan_, _buton_, are used precisely as S _but_, without

BOTAND, BUT-AND, _prep_ Besides

_Percy_

BOTAND, _adv_

1 But if, except

_Barbour_

2 Moreover, besides

_Maitland Poems_

In the latter sense, it is from A S _butan_, praeter