Part 1244

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking <?/ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.</def>

<blockquote>Wedged whole ages in a <b>bodkin's</b> eye. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>To sit</col>, <col>ride</col>, or <col>travel bodkin</col></mcol>, <cd>to sit closely wedged between two persons. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

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

<hw>Bod"kin</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Baudekin</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shirley.</i>

<h1>Bodle</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bo"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Bodleian</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"lei*an</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.</def>

<h1>Bodock</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bo*dock"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Corrupt. fr. <ets>bois d'arc</ets>.]</ety> <def>The Osage orange.</def> <mark>[Southwestern U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Bodrage</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"rage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. of Celtic origin: cf. <er>Bordrage</er>.]</ety> <def>A raid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Body</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bod"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Bodies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[OE. <ets>bodi</ets>, AS. <ets>bodig</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>botah</ets>. &root;257. Cf. <er>Bodice</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.</def>

<blockquote>Absent in <b>body</b>, but present in spirit. <i>1 Cor. v. 3</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For of the soul the <b>body</b> form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the <b>body</b> make. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Who set the <b>body</b> and the limbs Of this great sport together? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the <b>body</b> was the king and the prince. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Rivers that run up into the <b>body</b> of Italy. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.</def>