| Franç. | bosse | tumor |
| Breton | bos | tumor |
| Dutch | baas | tumor; master, chief |
| Engl. | boss | head, manager; protuberance, roundish excrescence, knoblike projection |
| Engl. | bosom | breast |
| Franç. | bossette | cask |
| Franç. | bassin | basin, bowl |
| Span. | buzón | box |
| Breton | boz | (concave) hollow of the hand |
| Engl.Scot. | boss | (concave) hollow, empty |
| Anc.Greek | byssos | (concave) depth |
| Germ. | busen | swelling |
| Roman. | buznitâ | Hawfinch, 431 |
| Alb. | buzë | Roman. buzâlip |
| Franç.rég. | bus | lip |
| Engl. | buss | Gael. bus, Germ. buss kiss |
| Engl. (o.liter.) | buss | French (a.litt.) busse a kind of vessel (ship) |
| Engl. | busby | a tall fur hat |
| Engl. | bass | a rounded, perchlike fish |
| Engl. | callerbosh | nestling (plump) |
| Franç.: Norm. | bezeau | id. |
| Roman. | besicâ | bladder, blister, globe, Wren, 406 |
| Lat. | vesica | bladder |
| Sbc. | bašica | fat ewe |
| Franç. | vessie | bladder |
| Franç. | vesse-de-loup | puffball |
| Franç. | vesce | vetch (plant producing pods) |
| Franç. | vase, vaisselle | kinds of recipients |
| Franç. | vaisseau | vessel, ship |
| Franç. | boisseau | bushel |
| Franç. | bois, buisson | grove, cops, bush |
| Franç. | buis | box (bush) |
| Franç. | busqué | aquiline (nose) |
| Franç.rég. | bousquinet, bouzigoun | certain mushroom |
| Engl. | basket | kind of container (not related to Lat. fascis) |
| Franç.:Valtourn.(AO) | bošé | molehill |
| Roman. | bus | fist |
| Franç. | bouse | cattle dung |
| Breton | bouzoul | horse dung |
| Ital.: Pav. | bossa | bottle |
| Prov. | tabòssa et var. | squat, stocky; Engoulevent, 251 |
| Ital.: Sic. | titibussu | Hoopoe, 263 (rounded crest) |
| Mod.Greek | bouza | toad |
| Roman. | bot | a rounded mass |
| Engl. | box | container, case, etc. |
| Bulg. | buca | hump |
| Germ. | butz | bulging thing, rounded end |
| Germ.reg. | buzzerl | Wren, 406 |
| Alb. | boçë | pine cone |
| Cat. | butza | paunch |
| Cat.: Mallorca | butzeca | nestling |
| Ital. | buzzo | belly |
| Ital. | bozza, bozzola | swollen |
| Ital.reg. | bozzola et var. | Goldeneye, 54 (bulging head) |
| Pers. | bozorg | large |
| Anc.Greek | basileús | prince |
| Anc.Greek | basilikè | a large building |
| Breton | bouch | crest, tuft |
| Engl. | bush | low plant with many branches |
| Germ.reg. | busch | bush |
| Germ.reg. | buschige ente | Tufted Duck, 48 |
| Germ.reg. | buschlerche | Crested Lark, 299 |
| Germ.reg. | buschreiher | Squacco Heron, 123 |
| Germ.reg. | puschkopke | Hoopoe, 263 |
| Germ. | bausch | fold of fat; bauschen to puff up |
| Anc.Greek | bassarè | fox (bushy tail) |
| Anc.Greek | Bassara | long-robed bacchant |
| Ital.: TI | besena | paunch |
| Ital.: TI | besenfi | swollen |
| Franç. | besace | a kind of bag |
| Franç.rég. | bezot et var. | last hatched of a brood |
| Franç. | bézoar | bezoar: round concretion found in the stomach of ruminants (not from Pers. pàd-zahr counterpoison) |
| Franç.: Vendée | bézi | variety of pear |
| Franç.rég. | roibesy et var. | Wren, 406 |
| Franç.rég. | bisse, bezou, jean-besa | Robin, 335 |
| Ital.: Lomb. | bezète | Robin, 335 |
| Franç.: Jura | bosote | Robin, 335 |
| Roman. | bostan | pumpkin |
| Franç. | buste | chest, breast |
| Engl. | bust | woman's breast |
| Engl. | boost | to increase, raise |
| Engl. | boast | to swell one's abilities; to tell more than one has, cf. bluffð 4.4.17; cogn. to Norw. baus "proud" but not to Germ. böse. |