▪ I. † bouge, n.1 Obs. or dial.
Also 4–6 bowge.
[a. OF. bouge (also boulge, buge, buche, Godef.) a small leather bag or wallet:—L. bulga a leathern bag, also the womb; of Gaulish origin (Festus): OIr. bolg, bolc, a sack. The variant bulge is found still earlier, and runs parallel to bouge in senses 1 and 2; 2 has also the variant form bulch; 3 has the parallel and later form bilge.]
† 1. A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle; = bulge n. 1. Obs.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls Ser.) VII. 385 His malys were i-serched his bouges and his trussynge cofres. 1388 Wyclif Ps. xxxii. 7 He gaderith togidere the watris of the see as in a bowge [1382 botel]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 46/1 Bowge, bulga. c 1470 Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 7 By draught of horse fro ryuers & wellis Bouges be brought to brewars for good ale. 1557 Paynell Barclay's Jugurth 96 He charged bottels and bowges to the hydes of the same beaste. 1600 Holland Livy xxi. xxvii. 408 Fastning their apparrell to bouges of lether like bladders [in utres]. |
b. Her. Cf. bouget.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 30 b, D. beareth Or, three water bowges Sable in chefe. |
† 2. A swelling, a hump; = bulge n. 2. Obs.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xl. (1495) 155 The caas of the galle is a certayne skynne sette vppon the bowges of the lyuer. c 1430 in Wyclif Lev. xxi. 20 (MS. S.) If he hath a botche or a bouge on his bak. 1483 Cath. Angl. 38 A Bowge, gibbus, struma. |
3. The protuberant part of a cask; = bilge 2.
| 1741 Compl. Fam. Piece i. v. 266 Then give it Vent at the Bouge, with a Hole made with a Gimblet. 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. ii. 109 Turning the cask sideways, on its bouge, immediately cork up the lower holes. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 122 Bouge or Bowge and Chine, or Bilge and Chimb, the end of one cask stowed against the bilge of another. 1875 Parish Sussex Dial., Bouge, a water cask. The round swelling part of a cask. |
4. A cowrie. rare. [a. F. bouge ‘coquillage servant de monnaie aux Indes’ (Boiste).]
| 1875 Jevons Money iv. 24 The cowry shells, which, under one name or another—chamgos, zimbis, bouges, etc. |
5. Comb., as (sense 1) bouge-maker, bouge-man; bowge-work, bulged or raised work.
| 1530 Palsgr. 187 Faysevr de bahus, a lether coofer maker or a bouge maker. c 1500 Cocke Lorelles B. 10 Tankarde berers, bouge men, and spere planers. 1596–7 Bond in Hist. Croydon App. (1783) 154 The windoes with bowge worke. |
▪ II. † bouge, n.2 Obs.
Also 5 bowge, 7 budge.
Corrupt form of bouche n.1, court-rations; also used by Ben Jonson in the sense of ‘provisions’.
| 1461–83 Ord. R. Househ., Liber Niger Edw. IV, 19 The Lyvery for horses at bouge of Court, of gentlemen & many other, &c. now is lefte. 1540 St Papers Hen. VIII, I. 623 Every of them to have lyke bouge of courte. 1611 Cotgr., Avoir bouche à Court, to eat and drinke scotfree, to haue budge-a-Court, to be in ordinarie at Court. a 1616 B. Jonson Love Restor. 87 A bombard man, that brought bouge for a Countrey Lady or two that fainted..with fasting. ― Mercurie Vind. Wks. (1692) 377, I am to deliver the buttry in, so many firkins of aurum potabile, as it delivers out bombards of budge to them. |
▪ III. † bouge, n.3 Obs. rare.
A species of trout.
| 1705 Act 4 Anne viii, Bouges, otherwise called Sea Trouts. |
▪ IV. † bouge, n.4 Obs. rare—1.
(possibly misprint.) A horsehair noose.
| 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. I. s.v. Ducks, Fasten your Collars or slipping Bouges to the End of your Stick. |
▪ V. bouge, n.5
In silver manufacture, a hollow running round any article.
▪ VI. † bouge, v. Obs.
Also 5–7 bowge, 6 boulge, budge.
[f. bouge n.1: there are also partially differentiated variants bilge, bulge, and bulch.]
1. trans. To stave in a ship's bottom or sides, cause her to spring a leak; = bilge v. 1.
| 1485 Caxton Trevisa's Higden vii. xxvi (1527) 284 He..toke..one of the Soudans grete shyppes..and bowged and thyrled it in y⊇ nether syde. 1577 Holinshed Chron. III. 15/2 Sir Anthonie Oughtred folowing the Regent at the sterne, bowged hir in diverse places, and set hir powder on fire. Ibid. ii. xvii. (1877) 288 Our ships will either bowge those of other countries or put them to flight. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 460 He had fewer galleys than they, yet he budged divers of theirs and sunk them. 1600 Holland Livy xxi. l. 421 One vessell..was bouged and pierced [perforata]. |
2. intr. To suffer fracture in the bilge; = bilge v. 2.
| a 1577 Gascoigne Voy. Holland, Lest therupon Our shippe should bowge. |
3. To swell out, to bulge; = bulge v. 3.
| 1398 [see bouging.] 1647 H. More Song of Soul i. i. xlvi, From this first film all bulk in quantity Doth bougen out. 1851 S. Judd Margaret ii. 6 When it reaches the stone that bouges out there. |
▪ VII. bouge
obs. form of budge.