Obs. [a. OF. bourder, f. bourde: see prec.]

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  1.  intr. To say things in jest or mockery; to jest, joke; to make fun, make game.

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1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 8667. How a bonde man bourdede wyþ a knyȝt.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, VIII. 383. A lord so sweet and debonar, So blith als and so veill bowrdand.

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a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 40. He herde hem clatre, laughe, iangle, and borde of highe.

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1481.  Caxton, Reynard (Arb.), 27. Ye borde and iape with me, for what I seche I fynde.

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a. 1555.  Bradford, Wks., 38. We shall feel it is no bourding with him.

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a. 1600.  in Kelly, Sc. Prov. (1721), 56 (Jam.). Bourd not wi’ bawtie (lest he bite you).

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c. 1674.  Ray, N. C. Wds., s.v., Bourd neither with me nor with my honour, Prov. Scot.

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1703.  D. Williamson, Serm. bef. Gen. Assembly, 59. It is not safe to bourd with God, Conscience and Death.

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a. 1758.  Ramsay, Poems (1800), II. 175 (Jam.). Never gi’e Encouragement or bourd with sic as he.

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  b.  To play.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 44. Boordon, or pleyyn, ludo, jocor.

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c. 1450.  Merlin, 31. Whiche … passeden thourgh the feild where childern were bourdinge.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par., Mark vi. 42. Euen when he bourdeth to, or maketh any game or pastyme.

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1559.  Mirr. Mag., Clifford, vi. To part his necke, and with his head to bourd.

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  2.  trans. To make game of, mock, jest with.

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1592.  G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 194. No man could … bourd a wilfull friend more dryly.

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1636.  James, Iter Lanc., 102. In a wan fainte palenesse bourding death.

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