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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Bŏg, n. p. 147A quagmire covered with grass or other plants; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Or treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. Jago. 2. A little elevated spot or…Bŏg, v. t. p. 147To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. W. Scott.Bŏg'-bēan, n. p. 147(Bot.) A plant, the marsh trefoil (Menyanthes trifoliata), which grows in moist and marshy places, having beautiful flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine. Loudon.Bŏg'-bĕr'ry, n. p. 147(Bot.) The cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in low lands and marshy places. Baird.Bŏg'-ėarth, n. p. 147(Min.) A soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc.Bō'gey or Bō'gy or Bō'gle or Bōg'gle, n. p. 147A bugbear; a specter. I am Bogey, and I frighten every body away. Thackeray. There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogs in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.Bŏg'gle, v. i. p. 147To stop or hesitate as if in doubt, or suddenly frightened, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanville.…Bŏg'gle, v. t. p. 147To embarrass with difficulties. [Local, U. S.]Bŏg'gler, n. p. 147One who boggles.Bŏg'glish, a. p. 147Doubtful. [obs.] Bp. Taylor.Bŏg'gy, a. p. 147Containing bogs; full of bogs; swampy.Bóg'-house, n. p. 147A house of office; a privy. Johnson.Bŏg'-lànd, a. p. 147Living in, or pertaining to, a boggy or marshy country. Men without hearts, and women without hose, Each bring his bogland captive home. Dryden.Bŏg'-mŏss, n. p. 147(Bot.) The Sphagnum, a genus of aquatic moss plants, having white leaves slightly tinted with red or green. W. Baird.Bŏg'-ōre, n. p. 147(Min.) (a.) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b.) Bog manganese. Dover.Bŏg'-rŭsh, n. p. 147(Bot.) A rush that grows in bogs, of several species, constituting the genus Schœnus.Bŏg'-spāv'in, n. p. 147(Far.) An encysted tumor on the inside of the hough, containing a gelatinous matter. White.Bŏg'-trŏt'ter, n. p. 148One who lives in a boggy country;—formerly applied in derision to Irish robbers. Halliwell.Bŏg'-trŏt'ting, a. p. 148Living among bogs; as, a bog-trotting Irishman.Bŏ'gus, a. p. 148Spurious;—a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Amer.]Bŏ'gus, n. p. 148A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Amer.] Bartlett.Bŏg'-whort, n. p. 148(Bot.) The bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), growing in low lands.Bo-hēa', n. p. 148An inferior kind of black or green tea, especially the former. ☞ The name is applied to other varieties of black tea, or to black tea in general.Bō'hun Ū'pas p. 148See Upas.Boi'är or Boy'är, n. p. 148A nobleman; a lord; a person of quality; a soldier. [Russ.] This word answers nearly to baron in Great Britain, and other countries in the west of Europe. Tooke.Boi'a-rĭn, n. p. 148A gentleman; a person of distinction; the master of a family. [Russ.] Tooke.Boil, v. i. p. 148To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat;—used of liquids; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils. (Chem.) To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor, at the boiling…Boil, v. t. p. 148To cause to bubble or be agitated by the application of heat; as, to boil water. 2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. 3. To subject to the action of heat in…Boil, n. p. 148A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates…Boil'a-ry, n. p. 148The water which arises from a salt well, belonging to one who has no right in the soil. Bouvier.Boiled, p. a. p. 148Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid.Boil'er, n. p. 148One who boils. 2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. 3. (Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or…Boil'er-plāte or Boil'er-ī'ron, n. p. 148Plate-iron of about a quarter to a half inch thickness, whether used for making boilers, or otherwise. See TANK-IRON.Boil'er-y, n. p. 148A place and apparatus for boiling, as salt. See BOILARY.Boil'ing, p. a. p. 148Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; agitated, as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. The trembling fins the boiling waves divide. Gay. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is…Boil'ing, n. p. 148The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of subjecting to the action of heat, so as to boil, as a liquid, or of preparing by hot water, or of evaporation.Boil'ing-ly, adv. p. 148With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boilingly higher. Byron.Bois'ter-oŭs, a. p. 148Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough. We see the water swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The boisterous force of violent men. Milton. 2.…Bois'ter-ōūs-ly, adv. p. 148Violently; furiously; with loud noise; tumultuously.Bois'ter-oûs-ness, n. p. 148The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.Bō'la-ry, a. p. 148Pertaining to bole or clay, or partaking of its nature and qualities. “Loadstone . . . chiefly consisting of a bolary and clammy substance.” Browne.Bōld, a. p. 148Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; intrepid; courageous; not timorous or shrinking from risk. “Throngs of knights and barons bold.” Milton. 2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of…Bōld, v. t. p. 148To make daring. [Obs.] A. Hall.Bōld'en, v. t. p. 148To make bold; to give confidence to; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.Bōld'-fāce, n. p. 148Impudence; sauciness;—a term of reprehension. L'Estrange.