Bobtail Bob"tail` adjective Bobtailed. " Bobtail cur." Marryat.

Bobtailed Bob"tailed` adjective Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Bobwhite Bob"white` noun (Zoology) The common quail of North America ( Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus ); -- so called from its note.

Bocal Bo"cal noun [ French] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

Bocardo Bo·car"do noun [ A mnemonic word.] 1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.

Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians.
Bowen.

2. A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [ Eng.] Latimer.

Bocasine Boc"a·sine noun [ French bocassin , boucassin .] A sort of fine buckram.

Bocca Boc"ca noun [ Italian , mouth.] The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

Boce Boce (bōs) noun [ Latin box , bocis , Greek bo`ax , bw^x .] (Zoology) A European fish ( Box vulgaris ), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box , and bogue .

Bock beer Bock" beer` [ German bockbier ; bock a buck + bier beer; -- said to be so named from its tendency to cause the drinker to caper like a goat.] A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [ Also written buck beer .]

Bockelet Bock"e·let noun (Zoology) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel , and bockeret . [ Obsolete]

Bockey Bock"ey noun [ Dutch bokaal .] A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [ Local, New York] Bartlett.

Bocking Bock"ing noun A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking , in England, where it was first made.

Bockland Bock"land noun See Bookland .

Bod veal Bod veal Veal too immature to be suitable for food.

Boddice Bod"dice noun See Bodick .

Bode Bode transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Boded ; present participle & verbal noun Boding .] [ Middle English bodien , Anglo-Saxon bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icelandic bo...a to announce, Swedish båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid .] To 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.
Spenser.

Bode Bode intransitive verb To foreshow something; to augur.

Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Dryden.

Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

Bode Bode noun 1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [ Obsolete]

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
Chaucer.

2. A bid; an offer. [ Obsolete or Dial.] Sir W. Scott

Bode Bode noun [ Anglo-Saxon boda ; akin to OFries. boda , Anglo-Saxon bodo , Old High German boto . See Bode , transitive verb ] A messenger; a herald. Robertson.

Bode Bode noun [ See Abide .] A stop; a halting; delay. [ Obsolete]

Bode Bode imperfect & past participle from Bide . Abode.

There that night they bode .
Tennyson.

Bode Bode past participle of Bid . Bid or bidden. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Bodeful Bode"ful adjective Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

Bodement Bode"ment noun An omen; a prognostic. [ Obsolete]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements .
Shak.

Bodge Bodge noun A botch; a patch. [ Dial.] Whitlock.

Bodge Bodge transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bodged ] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [ Obsolete or Dial.]

Bodge Bodge intransitive verb See Budge .

Bodhisat Bo"dhi·sat Bo`dhi*satt"va Bo`dhi*satt"wa noun [ Sanskrit bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō ); from bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship , noun

Bodian Bo"di·an noun (Zoology) A large food fish ( Diagramma lineatum ), native of the East Indies.

Bodice Bod"ice noun [ This is properly the plural of body , Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Confer Corset , and see Body .] 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

Her bodice half way she unlaced.
Prior.

Bodiced Bod"iced adjective Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

Bodied Bod"ied adjective Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able- bodied .

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied .
Hakluyt.

Bodiless Bod"i·less adjective 1. Having no body.

2. Without material form; incorporeal.

Phantoms bodiless and vain.
Swift.

Bodiliness Bod"i·li·ness noun Corporeality. Minsheu.

Bodily Bod"i·ly adjective 1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.
Tatler.

2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. " Bodily defects." L'Estrange.

3. Real; actual; put in execution. [ Obsolete]

Be brought to bodily act.
Shak.

Bodily fear , apprehension of physical injury.

Syn. -- See Corporal .

Bodily Bod"i·ly adverb 1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily .
Col. ii. 9

2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily . "Leapt bodily below." Lowell.

Boding Bod"ing (bōd"ĭng) adjective Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly , adverb

Boding Bod"ing noun A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

Bodkin Bod"kin (bŏd"kĭn) noun [ Middle English boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; confer W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog , Gael. biodag .] 1. A dagger. [ Obsolete]

When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin .
Shak.

2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a ...tiletto; an eyeleteer.

3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking ...ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.

4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye.
Pope.

5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

To sit , ride , or travel bodkin , to sit closely wedged between two persons. [ Colloq.] Thackeray.

Bodkin Bod"kin noun See Baudekin . [ Obsolete] Shirley.

Bodle Bo"dle noun A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

Bodleian Bod"lei·an adjective Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

Bodock Bo·dock" noun [ Corrupt. from bois d'arc .] The Osage orange. [ Southwestern U.S.]

Bodrage Bod"rage noun [ Prob. of Celtic origin: confer Bordrage .] A raid. [ Obsolete]

Body Bod"y noun ; plural Bodies [ Middle English bodi , Anglo-Saxon bodig ; akin to Old High German botah . √257. Confer Bodice .]

1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

Absent in body , but present in spirit.
1 Cor. v. 3

For of the soul the body form doth take.
For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Spenser.

2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

Who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together?
Shak.

The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince.
Clarendon.

Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.
Addison.

3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Col. ii. 17.

4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, any body , no body .

A dry, shrewd kind of a body .
W. Irving.

5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body ; a clerical body .

A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
Prescott.

6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body ; a moving body ; an aëriform body . "A body of cold air." Huxley.

By collision of two bodies , grind
The air attrite to fire.
Milton.

8. Amount; quantity; extent.

9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body ; a cart body .

11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body .

12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body ; wine of a good body .

» Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.

After body (Nautical) , the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. -- Body cavity (Anat.) , the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the cælum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. -- Body of a church , the nave. -- Body cloth ; plural Body cloths , a cloth or blanket for covering horses. -- Body clothes . ( plural ) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [ Obsolete] Addison. -- Body coat , a gentleman's dress coat. -- Body color (Paint.) , a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. -- Body of a law (Law) , the main and operative part. -- Body louse (Zoology) , a species of louse ( Pediculus vestimenti ), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback . -- Body plan (Shipbuilding) , an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic , the 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 themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation".
Bouvier.

-- Body servant , a valet. -- The bodies seven (Alchemy) , the metals corresponding to the planets. [ Obsolete]

Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper.
Chaucer.

-- Body snatcher , one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. -- Body snatching (Law) , the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.

Body Bod"y transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bodied ; present participle & verbal noun Bodying .] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

To body forth , to give from or shape to mentally.

Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown.
Shak.

Body Bod"y noun (Aëronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc.

Bodyguard Bod"y·guard` noun 1. A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

2. Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus.

Boer Boer noun [ Dutch, a farmer. See Boor .] A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Boes Bo"es 3d sing. pr. of Behove . Behoves or behooves. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

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