Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOB'O-LINK, n.

The popular name of the reed-bird, of the genus Icterus.

BOB'STAYS, n. [bob and stay.]

Ropes to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem. – Mar. Dict.

BOB'TAIL, n. [bob and tail.]

1. A short tail, or a tail cut short. – Shak.
2. The rabble; used in contempt. – Bramston.

BOB'-TAIL-ED, a.

having the hair cut short. – L'Estrange.

BOB'-WIG, n. [bob and wig.]

A short wig. – Spectator.

BO-CAQUE, or BO-CAKE, n.

An animal found on the banks of the Nieper, resembling a rabbit, except that its ears are shorter, and it has no tail. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

BOC'A-SINE, a. [Fr.]

A sort of fine linen or buckram. – Johnson.

BOCE, n.

The sparus, a beautiful fish. – Ash.

BOCK'E-LET, or BOCK'E-RET, n.

A kind of long-winged hawk. – Johnson.

BOCK'ING, n.

A particular sort of cloth, like baize.

BOCK'LAND, n.

See BOOKLAND. – Encyc.

BODE, n.

1. An omen. – Chaucer.
2. A stop. [See Abide.]

BODE, v.i.

To foreshow; to presage. This bodes well to you. – Dryden.

BODE, v.t. [Sax. bodian, bodigan, to foretell, to utter or announce; bod, an order, mandate or edict; boda, a messenger, or preacher; Sw. bod, a message, an embassy; beboda, to tell or relate; Sax. gebodian, to offer or bid, to relate, tell or announce, to command, to show, to promise. Radically, this is the same word as Bid, which see. The radical sense is, to utter, to drive out the voice.]

To portend; to foreshow; to presage; to indicate something future by signs; to be the omen of; most generally applied to things; as, our vices bode evil to the country.

BODE'MENT, n.

An omen; portent; prognostic; a foreshowing. [Obs.] – Shak.

BODGE, n.

A botch. [Not used.] – Whitlock.

BODGE, v.i. [See Boggle.]

To boggle; to stop. [Not used.] – Shak.

BOD'ICE, n.

Stays; a waistcoat, quilted with whalebone, worn by women. – Johnson.

BOD'I-ED, a. [from body.]

Having a body. – Shak.

BOD'I-LESS, a. [See Body.]

Having no body or material form; incorporeal. – Davies.

BOD'I-LY, a.

1. Having or containing a body or material form; corporeal; as, bodily dimensions. – South.
2. Relating or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind; as bodily defects; bodily pain. – Locke.
3. Real; actual; as, bodily act. – Shak.

BOD'I-LY, adv.

Corporeally; united with a body or matter. It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells bodily. – Watts.

BOD'ING, n.

An omen. – Bp. Ward.

BOD'ING, ppr. [from bode.]

Foreshowing; presaging.

BOD'KIN, n. [Ir. bod, a limb, that is, a point, a shoot, with the termination kin, used as a diminutive; Gr. βατος, a thorn.]

1. An instrument of steel, bone, ivory, or the like, with a small blade, and a sharp point, for making holes by piercing. A like instrument with an eye, for drawing thread, tape, or ribin through a loop, &c. An instrument to dress the hair. – Johnson.
2. A dagger. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.