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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without material form; incorporeal.</def>

<blockquote>Phantoms <b>bodiless</b> and vain. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bodiliness</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"i*li*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Corporeality.</def>

<i>Minsheu.</i>

<h1>Bodily</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.</def>

<blockquote>You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the <b>bodily</b> part of us. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.</def> "<i>Bodily</i> defects."

<i>L'Estrange.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Real; actual; put in execution.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Be brought to <b>bodily</b> act. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Bodily fear</col>, <cd>apprehension of physical injury.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Corporal</er>.</syn>

<h1>Bodily</h1> <Xpage=161>

<hw>Bod"i*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.</def>

<blockquote>For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead <b>bodily</b>. <i>Col. ii. 9</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away <i>bodily</i>. "Leapt <i>bodily</i> below." </def>

<i>Lowell.</i>

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<h1>Boding</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Bod"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Boding</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.</def>

<h1>Bodkin</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>boydekyn</ets> dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. <ets>bidog</ets> hanger, short sword, Ir. <ets>bideog</ets>, Gael. <ets>biodag</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A dagger.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>When he himself might his quietus make With a bare <b>bodkin</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Needlework)</fld> <def>An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a <?/tiletto; an eyeleteer.</def>

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