n
ā, f. See Gwynn,
Hermathena xxiv 60
; Thurneysen,
ZCP xx 381.
(a)
stream, flow, gush (of water):
ron tart a
brága cen buais,
LL 21168
`his throat dried up without
water (?),'
Bodl. Dinds. 39.
cath Buasi co mbuais (: cluais),
LL 6760
(
RC xxix 212 § 17
). tecait co húais, ra gním ngle, /
secht srotha, búais cen búaidre `in an untroubled gush',
Metr. Dinds. iii 288.14
.
(b) Fig. of
poetry expld. as art, knowledge:
būas .i. āi,
Corm. Y 199.
buss (sic) .i. ai,
H 3.18, 65a7
.
bues .i. sofis,
633b24
.
buas .i. sofis naircetail .i. arinni thic imbas iar
mbuais, inde dicitur barr buaise
,
64c26
.
gur 'lus būas bang
na Bōinde (B. na f.) .i. guribh sé an elada do bhí 'sna cnāibh
imais,
ZCP v 489 § 10.
erraind nais a sruth buais .i. is uais
ind rann fil ocum ar imbud mo dagḟessa .i. ollamnas `from
the stream of science',
RC xxvi 24 § 80
(
LL 24462
). būas (leg.
B., Thurn. loc. cit.) .i. soes n-arc[h]etail (imais add.
, LB,
note 2) arinní dothēt imbas īar mbuais (leg. mB., Thurn.).
Inde dicitur isna Brethaib Nemed: `barr būaise',
Corm. Y 148.
Corm. 8.
soillsighis sruthlinn mbarr mbuais buadhchu,
Anecd. ii 75.11
.
pn As name of river Bush
and in nn. loc., see
Hog. Onom. B.
(one of the rígusci Érenn),
BDD² 1460.
ó Buais co Commur
Trí nUsce,
Ériu vi 147.18
.
d'Inbiur Buasse bruchtait srotha,
Todd Nenn. 266.7
.