a term of art used in our inns of court, whereby is intended a private arguing of cases. The manner of it at Gray's inn is thus: An ancient and two barristers sit as judges; three students bring each a case, out of which the judges choose one to be argued; which done, the students first argue it, and after them the barristers. It is inferior to meeting; and may be derived from the Saxon word bolt, "a house," because done privately in the house for instruction. In Lincoln's inn, Mondays and Wednesdays are the bolting days in vacation time; and Tuesdays and Thursdays the moot days.

Boulting, the act of separating the flour from the bran, by means of a sieve or bolter. See Bolter.

Bolting-Cloth, or Beller-cloth, sometimes also called bulging-cloth, denotes a linen or hair cloth for sifting meal or flour.

Bolting-Mill, a versatile engine for sifting with more ease and expedition. The cloth round this is called the bolter.

Boulting, among sportsmen, signifies rouling or dislodging a coney from its resting place. They say, to bolt a coney, start a hare, raise a buck, &c.