Part 1242

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Bodeful</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bode"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Portentous; ominous.</def>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Bodement</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bode"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An omen; a prognostic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these <b>bodements</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bodge</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bodge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A botch; a patch.</def> <mark>[Dial.]</mark>

<i>Whitlock.</i>

<h1>Bodge</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bodge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bodged</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Dial.]</mark>

<h1>Bodge</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bodge</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>See <er>Budge</er>.</def>

<h1>Bodian</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bo"di*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large food fish (<spn>Diagramma lineatum</spn>), native of the East Indies.</def>

<h1>Bodice</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"ice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[This is properly the plural of <ets>body</ets>, Oe. <ets>bodise</ets> a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. <er>Corset</er>, and see <er>Body</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.</def>

<blockquote>Her <b>bodice</b> half way she unlaced. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bodiced</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"iced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Wearing a bodice.</def>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Bodied</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"ied</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a body; -- usually in composition; <as>as, able-<ex>bodied</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good <b>bodied</b>. <i>Hakluyt.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bodiless</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"i*less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having no body.</def>