Bŏd'ice or Bŏd'dice, n.

(bŏd'is), n. [This is properly the plural of body, O. Eng. bodise, a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice.] Stays; a kind of quilted waistcoat stiffened with whalebone, worn by women; a corset.

Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.