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291:
Why should not bilbo raise him, or a pair of
bullions?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
swelled, puffed out
(cf.
_Sad.
Shep.
_, Act 1.
Sc.
2, _bulled_ nosegays').
'
The _NED.
_ gives 'prob.
a.
F.
_bouillon_ in senses derived from
that of "bubble.
"'
Besides the passages already given, the word occurs in B.
& Fl.
,
_The Chances_, _Wks.
_ 7.
291:
Why should not bilbo raise him, or a pair of
bullions?
_Beggar's Bush_, _Wks.
_ 9.
81:
In his French doublet, with his blister'd
(1st fol.
_baster'd_) bullions.
Brome, _Sparagus Garden_, _Wks.
_ 3.
152:
--shaking your
Old Bullion Tronkes over my Trucklebed.
_Gesta Gray_ in Nichols' _Prog.
Q.
Eliz.
_ 3.
341 A, 1594:
'A bullion-hose is best to go a woeing in; for tis full of
promising promontories.
'
=3.
3.
231 too-too-vnsupportable!
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