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

Bode, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.] A messenger; a herald. Robertson.

Bode, n. [See Abide.] A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide. Abode.

There that night they bode. Tennyson.

Bode, p. p. of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bode"ful (&?;), a. Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

Bode"ment (&?;), n. An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.]

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

Bodge (&?;), n. A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

Bodge (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodged (&?;).] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]

Bodge, v. i. See Budge.

Bo"di*an (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

Bod"ice (&?;), n. [This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. 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.

Bod"iced (&?;), a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

Bod"ied (&?;), a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

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

Bod"i*less (&?;), a. 1. Having no body.

2. Without material form; incorporeal.

Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.

Bod"i*li*ness (&?;), n. Corporeality. Minsheu.

Bod"i*ly (&?;), a. 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. [Obs.]

Be brought to bodily act. Shak.