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Webster 1913 Edition


Booly

Boo′ly

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Boolies
.
[Ir.
buachail
cowherd;
bo
cow +
giolla
boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
[Obs.]
[Written also
boley
,
bolye
,
bouillie
.]
Spenser.