92 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Blooming. Very sultry, as “’Tis a main blooming day.” S.W. (Salisbury.) 
Bloomy. Sultry. Bloomy-hot. Excessively sultry. (A.B.) S.W. 
Blooth, Blowth, Bloom or blossom. S.W. 
Blossom. A snowflake. “What girt blossoms ’twer to the snow isterday.” 
“ Snow-flakes are called ‘blossoms.’ The word snow-flake is unknown.” 
(Village Miners.) N. & S.W. 
Blow. Sheep and cattle “blow” themselves, or get “ blowed,’”’ from over- 
eating when turned out into very heavy grass or clover, the fermentation 
of which often kills them on the spot, their bodies becoming terribly 
inflated. N. & S.W. 
Blowing. A blossom. (A.B.H.) N.W. 
Blub up. To puff or swell up. A man out of health and puffy about the 
face is said to look “ ter’ble blubbed up.” N.W. 
Blue Bottle. Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth, S.W. 
Blue Buttons. (1) Scadiosa arvensis, L., Field Scabious. S.W. 
(2) 8S. Columbaria, L., Small Scabious. S.W. 
Blue Cat. One who is suspected of being an incendiary. ‘ He has the name 
of a blue cat.” See Lewis’s Cat. S.W. (Salisbury.) 
Blue Kyes. Veronica Chamedrys, L., Germander Speedwell. N.W.. 
Blue Goggles. Seil/a nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. of. Greygles 
or Greggles. S.W. 
Blunt. “A cold blunt,” a spell of cold weather. See Snow-blunt. N.W. 
Boar Stag. A boar which, after having been employed for breeding pur- 
poses for a time, is castrated and set aside for fattening. (D.) of Bull 
Stag. N.W. 
Board. Toscold. “She boarded me just about.” S.W. 
Boat. Children cut apples and oranges into segments, which they sometimes 
call “ pigs” or “ boats.” 
*Bobbant. Ofa girl, romping, forward. (A.B.H.) N.W. 
Bob-grass. Bromus mollis, L. S.W. 
Bobbish. In good health. (A.B.) “How be ’ee?” “Pretty bobbish.” N.W. 
*Bochant, The sameas Bobbant. (A-B.H.) 
Boistins. The first milk given by a cow after calving. (A.B.) N.W: 
Bolt. In basket-making, a bundle of osiers 40 inches round. (Amateur 
Poacher, ch. 4.) 
Boltin, Boulting. A sheaf of five or ten “ elms,” prepared beforehand for 
thatching. “Elms” are usually made up on the spot, but are occasionally 
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