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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'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…Bŏd'y, v. t. p. 147To produce in definite shape; to embody. Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. Shak.Bŏd'y-clōthēs, n. pl. p. 147Clothing or covering for the body, as for a horse.Bŏd'y-cōat, n. p. 147A gentleman's dress-coat. Simmonds.Bŏd'y-cŏl'or, n. p. 147(Paint.) Color that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. Ogilvie.Bŏd'y-guārd, n. p. 147A guard to protect or defend the person; a life-guard.Bŏd'y-pŏl'i-tic, n. p. 147The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton. As to the persons who compose the body-politic or associate…Bŏd'y-snātch'er, n. p. 147One who secretly disinters the bodies of the dead in churchyards, for the purposes of dissection.Bŏd'y-snătch'ing, n. p. 147The act of robbing the grave for the purposes of dissection.Bœ-ō'tian, a. p. 147(Geog.) Pertaining to Bœotia, or its inhabitants; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.Bœ-ō'tian, n. p. 147(Geog.) A native or an inhabitant of Bœotia.