Bode (v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur.
Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
Bode (n.) A bid; an offer.
Bode (v. t.) A messenger; a herald.
Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay.
Bode (imp. & p. p.) Abode.
Bode (p. p.) Bid or bidden.
Bodeful (a.) Portentous; ominous.
Bodement (n.) An omen; a prognostic.
Bodge (n.) A botch; a patch.
Bodged (imp. & p. p.) of Bodge
Bodge (v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
Bodge (v. i.) See Budge.
Bodian (n.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.
Bodice (n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
Bodice (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.
Bodiced (a.) Wearing a bodice.
Bodied (a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
Bodiless (a.) Having no body.
Bodiless (a.) Without material form; incorporeal.
Bodiliness (n.) Corporeality.
Bodily (a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
Bodily (a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
Bodily (a.) Real; actual; put in execution.
Bodily (adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
Bodily (adv.) 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."
Boding (a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.
Boding (n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
Bodkin (n.) A dagger.
Bodkin (n.) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.
Bodkin (n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
Bodkin (n.) 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.
Bodkin (n.) A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
Bodkin (n.) See Baudekin.
Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.
Bodleian (a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
Bodock (n.) The Osage orange.
Bodrage (n.) A raid.
Bodies (pl. ) of Body
Body (n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
Body (n.) 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.
Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
Body (n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
Body (n.) 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.
Body (n.) 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.
Body (n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
Body (n.) Amount; quantity; extent.
Body (n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
Body (n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
Body (n.) 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.
Body (n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
Body (n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
Bodied (imp. & p. p.) of Body
Bodying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Body
Body (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
Bodyguard (n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
Bodyguard (n.) Retinue; attendance; following.
Boeotian (a.) Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.
Boeotian (n.) A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.
Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
Boes (3d sing. pr.) Behoves or behooves.
Bog (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Bog (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Bogged (imp. & p. p.) of Bog
Bogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bog
Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
Bogberry (n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
Bogey (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
Boggard (n.) A bogey.
Boggled (imp. & p. p.) of Boggle
Boggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boggle
Boggle (n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
Boggle (n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
Boggle (n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
Boggle (v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
Boggler (n.) One who boggles.
Bogglish (a.) Doubtful; skittish.
Boggy (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
Bogie (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Bogsucker (n.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Bogtrotting (a.) Living among bogs.
Bogue (v. i.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
Bogue (n.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
Bogus (n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
Bogwood (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
Bogies (pl. ) of Bogy
Bogy (n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
Bohea (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
Bohemia (n.) A country of central Europe.
Bohemia (n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
Bohemian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
Bohemian (n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
Bohemian (n.) A native of Bohemia.
Bohemian (n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
Bohemian (n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
Bohemianism (n.) The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
Bohun upas () See Upas.