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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bōat, n. p. 146A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing, but often by a sail. 2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as…Bōat, v. t. p. 146To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.Bōat, v. i. p. 146To go in a boat. “I boated over, ran my craft aground.” Tennyson.Bōat'a-ble, a. p. 146Navigable for boats, or small river craft. “The boatable waters of the Alleghany.” Morse.Bōat'-bĭll, n. p. 146(Ornith.) (a.) A species of bird, the Cancroma cochlearia, of the order of Waders, a native of the tropical parts of South America. It has a bill four inches long, not unlike a boat with the keel…Bōat'-fly or Bōat'-in'sect, n. p. 146(Entom.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of different species of the genus Notonecta;—so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Baird.Bōat'-hōok, n. p. 146(Naut.) An iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat. Totten.Bōat'-house, n. p. 146A house for sheltering boats. “Half the latticed boat-house hides.” Wordsworth.Bōat'ing, n. p. 146The act or practice of sailing or transporting in boats. 2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they perish.Bo-ā'tion, n. p. 146A crying out; a roar; noise; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.Bōat'man or Bōats'man, n. p. 146A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.Bōat'-rōpe, n. p. 146A rope to fasten a boat;—usually called a painter.Bōat'-shāped, a. p. 146(Bot.) Having the shape of a boat; navicular; cymbiform; hollow like a boat, as the valve of some pericarps. Lindley.Bōat'shell, n. p. 146(Conch.) A species of shell, of the genus Cymba.Boat'swain, n. p. 146(Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, &c., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs various other duties. Totten. Boatswain's…Bŏb, n. p. 146Any thing that plays loosely, or with a short, abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden. 2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used…Bŏb, v. t. p. 146To move in a short, jerking manner; as, to bob a courtesy. “He bobbed his head.” Irving. 2. To beat; to strike with a quick, light blow. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep ... he was…Bŏb, v. i. p. 146To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely. “Bobbing and courtesying.” Thackeray. 2. To angle with a bob, or with a bobbing motion of the bait. “He ne’er had…Bo-bănce', n. p. 147A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.Bŏb'ber-y, n. p. 147A squabble; a tumult; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low.] Halliwell.Bŏb'bin, n. p. 147A small pin, or cylindrical piece of wood, with a head, on which thread is wound for making lace. A similar instrument, bored through to receive an iron pivot, and with a border at one or both ends…Bob-bin-èt' or Bôb'bin-èt', n. p. 147A kind of lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. “The English machine-made net is now confined to point-net, warp-net, and bobbin-net, so called from the peculiar construction of the…Bŏb'bin-work, n. p. 147Work woven with bobbins.Bŏb'-chĕr'ry, n. p. 147A play among children, in which a cherry is hung so as to bob against the mouth, and be caught with the teeth.Bob-lin'coln p. 147Bŏb'o·link, n. p. 147(Ornith.) The rice-bird, rice bunting, or reed-bird; the Dolichonyx orizivorus, an American singing-bird. Baird. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.Bŏb'stāys, n. pl. p. 147(Naut.) Ropes or chains to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater.Bŏb'tāil, n. p. 147A short tail, or a tail cut short. 2. The rabble; used in contempt. Braunston.Bŏb'tāiled, a. p. 147Having the tail cut short, as a dog, or naturally short and thick. L'Estrange.Bŏb'-white, n. p. 147(Ornith.) The common partridge of North America (the Odontophorus Virginianus), so called from its note. S. F. Baird.Bŏb'-wĭg, n. p. 147A short wig.Bō'cal, n. p. 147A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck;—used for preserving solid substances. Craig.Bo-cär'do, n. p. 147(Logic.) A mood of the syllogism in which the major premise and the conclusion are particular negatives, and the minor premise a universal affirmative.Bŏc'a-sīne, n. p. 147A sort of fine buckram.Bôc'cā, n. p. 147The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.Bōçe, n. p. 147(Ichth.) The sparus, a beautiful fish.Bŏck'e-let or Bŏck'e-ret, n. p. 147(Ornith.) A kind of long-winged hawk. [Written also bockerel.]Bŏck'ey, n. p. 147A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [New York.] Bartlett.Böck'ing, n. p. 147A particular sort of cloth, like baize or drugget;—so called from the town of Bocking, in England.Bōck'land, n. p. 147See BOOKLAND.Bōde, v. t. p. 147To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spencer.Bōde, v. i. p. 147To foreshow; to presage. Whatever now The omen prove, it boded well to you. Dryden.Bōde, n. p. 147An omen. [Obs.] The owl, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer. 2. A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.] See ABIDE.Bōde'ful, a. p. 147Portentous; ominous; threatening. Carlyle.Bōde'ment, n. p. 147An omen; portent; prognostic; a foreshowing. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.Bŏdge, v. i. p. 147To boggle; to stop. [Obs.] We charged again; but out, alas! We bodged again. Shak.Bŏd'ge, n. p. 147A botch; a patch. [Obs.] Whitlock.Bŏd'ice or Bŏd'dice, n. p. 147Stays; a kind of quilted waistcoat stiffened with whalebone, worn by women; a corset. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.Bŏd'ied, a. p. 147Having a body; — usually in composition, as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.Bŏd'i-less, a. p. 147Having no body or material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.Bōd'ī-li-ness, n. p. 147Corporeality. Minshew.Bŏd'ĭ-ly, a. p. 147Having or containing a body or material form; corporeal. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler. 2. Relating or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the…Bŏd'ĭ-ly, adv. p. 147Corporally; united with a body or matter. It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells bodily. Watts. 2. In respect to the entire body or mass; entirely; completely; as, to carry away bodily.…Bōd'ing, p. a. p. 147Foreshowing; presaging.Bōd'ing, n. p. 147A prognostic; an omen.Bōd'ing-ly, adv. p. 147In a boding manner. “All is so bodingly still.” Lowell.Bŏd'kin, n. p. 147A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak. 2. Hence, an instrument of steel, bone, ivory, or the like, with a small blade, and a sharp point, for making holes…Bō'dle, n. p. 147A Scotch penny; a small coin worth about half of an English penny. W. Scott.Bŏd'le-i-an, a. p. 147Pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, who founded a celebrated library at Oxford, in the sixteenth century; as, the Bodleian library.Bŏd'y, n. p. 147The frame of an animal; the material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle. “Frail and weary body.” Everett. Absent in body…