Webster's Dictionary 1913

3619

Bode

Bode (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Boded; p. pr. & vb. n.Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo�a to announce, Sw. båda to announce, por...

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Bode (2)

Bode, v. i. To foreshow something; to augur.Whatever nowThe omen proved, it boded well to you.Dryden.Syn. — To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

3621

Bode (3)

Bode, n. 1. An omen; a foreshadowing.The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.Chaucer.2. A bid; an offer. Sir W. Scott

3622

Bode (4)

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

3623

Bode (5)

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

3624

Bode (6)

Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide. Abode.There that night they bode.Tennyson.

3625

Bode (7)

Bode, p. p. of Bid. Bid or bidden. Chaucer.

3626

Bodeful

Bode″ful (�), a. Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

3627

Bodement

Bode″ment (�), n. An omen; a prognostic.This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girlMakes all these bodements.Shak.

3628

Bodge

Bodge (�), n. A botch; a patch. Whitlock.

3629

Bodge (2)

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

3630

Bodge (3)

Bodge, v. i. See Budge.

3631

Bodhisat

{ Bo″dhi‐sat (?), ‖Bo′dhi‐satt″va, ‖Bo′dhi‐satt″wa (?) }, n. [Skr. bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō); fr. bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.] (Bud...

3632

Bodian

Bo″di‐an (�), n.(Zoöl.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

3633

Bodice

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 whalebo...

3634

Bodiced

Bod″iced (�), a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

3635

Bodied

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.

3636

Bodiless

Bod″i‐less (�), a. 1. Having no body.2. Without material form; incorporeal.Phantoms bodiless and vain.Swift.

3637

Bodiliness

Bod″i‐li‐ness (�), n. Corporeality. Minsheu.

3638

Bodily

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 ...

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Bodily (2)

Bod″i‐ly, adv. 1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.Col. ii. 92. In respect to, o...

3640

Boding

Bod″ing (bōd″ĭng), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. — Bod″ing‐ly, adv.

3641

Boding (2)

Bod″ing, n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

3642

Bodkin

Bod″kin (bŏd″kĭn), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.] 1. A dagger.When he himself might his quietus makeW...

3643

Bodkin (2)

Bod″kin, n. See Baudekin. Shirley.

3644

Bodle

Bo″dle (�), n. A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

3645

Bodleian

Bod″lei‐an, a. Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.