† boistn.

Forms: Middle English boist(e, Middle English–1600s boyste. Also Middle English buste, Middle English bust; Middle English, 1500s bost, 1500s–1600s boost(e; Middle English bouste; Middle English buist, buyste, 1800s Scottish buist. See boost n.¹, buist n.¹, bust n.²

Etymology: Middle English boiste, < Old French boiste ‘box’, in Provençal bostia, representing, through late Latin bossida, boxida, buxida, Latin pyxida, < Greek πυξίδα, accusative of πυξίς box (Brachet). The phonetic history of the variant forms in English and Scots is obscure: but uy is probably an early variant of oi, and the forms in o, u, seem due to simplification of the diphthong, as in 16th cent. Scots jone = join, etc.

Obsolete.

a. A box, a casket; chiefly used of a box for ointment, a vase or flask for oil, etc. (= box n.² 1.)

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun]

shrinec1000

boist?c1225

busta1250

cofferc1300

coffinc1330

buist1393

boosta1400

pyx1609

pyxis1708

box1751

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 167 He haueð swa monie boistes [a1250 Nero bustes] ful of his letewaries.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xii. 68 I haue a gret boyste At my bak, of broke bred þi bely for to fylle.

c1375 ? J. Barbour St. Nicolaus 294 Scho has brocht A boyst of oyle.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 14003 A boist of smerles has scho nomin.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xvii. l. 131 The Awngel took A boist with Oynement Anon.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 883 He anoyntide hym anon with his noble boyste.

1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits lxv. sig. F^v Also of the wood [of Rosemarie], make a boyst to smell thereto and it shall keepe thee yongly.

b. bleeding-boist n. a cupping-glass.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn

box?a1425

bleeding-boistc1440

ventose1500

cucurbit?1541

cucurbitule?1541

cupping-glass1545

boxing glass1562

ventosa1562

wind-glass1585

cupping box1592

boxing cup1605

cup-glass1616

cup1617

bleeding-bowl1911

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Bledynge boyste, ventosa, guna.

2. Dialectal name for a rude hut. [? same word.]

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1840 Times 24 Apr. 3/6 Along the London and Brighton line of Railway there have been erected a great number of rude huts or cabins..For the use of these places to sleep in, the workmen pay, each 1s. or 1s. 6d. a-week—two and not unfrequently three of them sleeping together in these ‘boists’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	boist
释义	† boistn. Forms: Middle English boist(e, Middle English–1600s boyste. Also Middle English buste, Middle English bust; Middle English, 1500s bost, 1500s–1600s boost(e; Middle English bouste; Middle English buist, buyste, 1800s Scottish buist. See boost n.¹, buist n.¹, bust n.² Etymology: Middle English boiste, < Old French boiste ‘box’, in Provençal bostia, representing, through late Latin bossida, boxida, buxida, Latin pyxida, < Greek πυξίδα, accusative of πυξίς box (Brachet). The phonetic history of the variant forms in English and Scots is obscure: but uy is probably an early variant of oi, and the forms in o, u, seem due to simplification of the diphthong, as in 16th cent. Scots jone = join, etc. Obsolete. 1. a. A box, a casket; chiefly used of a box for ointment, a vase or flask for oil, etc. (= box n.² 1.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] shrinec1000 boist?c1225 busta1250 cofferc1300 coffinc1330 buist1393 boosta1400 pyx1609 pyxis1708 box1751 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 167 He haueð swa monie boistes [a1250 Nero bustes] ful of his letewaries. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xii. 68 I haue a gret boyste At my bak, of broke bred þi bely for to fylle. c1375 ? J. Barbour St. Nicolaus 294 Scho has brocht A boyst of oyle. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 14003 A boist of smerles has scho nomin. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xvii. l. 131 The Awngel took A boist with Oynement Anon. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 883 He anoyntide hym anon with his noble boyste. 1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits lxv. sig. F^v Also of the wood [of Rosemarie], make a boyst to smell thereto and it shall keepe thee yongly. b. bleeding-boist n. a cupping-glass. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn box?a1425 bleeding-boistc1440 ventose1500 cucurbit?1541 cucurbitule?1541 cupping-glass1545 boxing glass1562 ventosa1562 wind-glass1585 cupping box1592 boxing cup1605 cup-glass1616 cup1617 bleeding-bowl1911 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Bledynge boyste, ventosa, guna. 2. Dialectal name for a rude hut. [? same word.] ΚΠ 1840 Times 24 Apr. 3/6 Along the London and Brighton line of Railway there have been erected a great number of rude huts or cabins..For the use of these places to sleep in, the workmen pay, each 1s. or 1s. 6d. a-week—two and not unfrequently three of them sleeping together in these ‘boists’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † boistv. Etymology: < boist n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To cup, to scarify. (Cf. boist n. 1b.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > bleed by cupping ventosec1400 boistc1440 box?a1450 cup1482 ventilate1668 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 42 Boyston, scaro, ventoso. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.?c1225v.c1440
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