Obs. Also 6 bowse. [a. Du. bus, MDu. buis ‘gun,’ a specialized sense of bus, buis box: cf. Ger. büchse, and see HARQUEBUS.] A harquebus.
1549. Compl. Scot. (1801), Mak reddy your cannons bastardis, falcons … busis, doggis, doubil busis, hagbuttis of croche, half haggis.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars, 42 [see BOWZE].
