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Bob"stay` (&?;), n. [Bob + stay.] (Naut.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

Bob"tail` (&?;), n. [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Bob"tail`, a. Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." Marryat.

Bob"tailed` (&?;), a. Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Bob"white` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

Bob" wig` (&?;). A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

Bo"cal (&?;), n. [F.] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

Bo*car"do (&?;), n. [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.

Boc"a*sine (&?;), n. [F. bocassin, boucassin.] A sort of fine buckram.

||Boc"ca (&?;), n. [It., mouth.] The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

Boce (bs), n. [L. box, bocis, Gr. bo`ax, bw^x.] (Zoöl.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

Bock" beer` (&?;). [G. 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 A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.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.]

Bock"e*let (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

Bock"ey (&?;), n. [D. bokaal.] A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

Bock"ing, n. 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.

Bock"land (&?;), n. See Bookland.

Bod"dice (&?;), n. See Bodick.

Bode (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo&?;a to announce, Sw. 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, v. i. To foreshow something; to augur.

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

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

Bode, n. 1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]

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