Part 1238

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To mock or delude; to cheat.</def>

<blockquote>To play her pranks, and <b>bob</b> the fool, The shrewish wife began. <i>Turbervile.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cut short; <as>as, to <ex>bob</ex> the hair, or a horse's tail</as>.</def>

<h1>Bob</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bob</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.</def> "<i>Bobbing</i> and courtesying."

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To angle with a bob. See <er>Bob</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 2 & 3.</def>

<blockquote>He ne'er had learned the art to <b>bob</b> For anything but eels. <i>Saxe.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To bob at an apple</col>, <col>cherry</col>, etc.</mcol> <cd>to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bobac</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bo"bac</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The Poland marmot (<spn>Arctomys bobac</spn>).</def>

<h1>Bobance</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bo*bance"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>bobance</ets>, F. <ets>bombance</ets>, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. <ets>bombus</ets> a humming, buzzing.]</ety> <def>A boasting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Bobber</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bob"ber</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, bobs.</def>

<h1>Bobbery</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bob"ber*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. an Anglo-Indian form of Hindi <ets>b\'bep re</ets> O thou father! (a very disrespectful address).]</ety> <def>A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; <as>as, to raise a <ex>bobbery</ex></as>.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Bobbin</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bob"bin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bobine</ets>; of uncertain origin; cf. L. <ets>bombus</ets> a humming, from the noise it makes, or Ir. & Gael. <ets>baban</ets> tassel, or E. <ets>bob</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Haberdashery)</fld> <def>A fine cord or narrow braid.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Elec.)</fld> <def>A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.</def>

<cs><col>Bobbin and fly frame</col>, <cd>a roving machine.</cd> -- <col>Bobbin lace</col>, <cd>lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bobbinet</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bob`bi*net"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Bobbin</ets> + <ets>net</ets>.]</ety> <def>A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand./def> <altsp>[Sometimes written <asp>bobbin net</asp>.]</altsp><