Bob, v. n.
- 1. Play back and forward, have a jerking motion.
- 2. Angle (with a jerking motion), fish.
Bob, n.
- 1. Jerking motion.
- 2. Pendant, hanging appendage.
Bobolink, n. Rice-bird, rice-bunting, reed-bird, butter-bird, skunk-bird, skunk-blackbird, Bob o’ Lincoln, Robert o’ Lincoln, Bob-lincoln, bob-link (Dolichonyx orizyvorus).
Bob-white, n. American partridge, quail (Odontophorus Virginianus).
Bode, v. a. Betoken, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, prefigure, presage, augur, foretell, predict, forebode, prophesy, be ominous of.
Bode, v. n. Forebode, presage, be ominous.
Bodice, n.
- 1. Corset, stays.
- 2. Waist (of a dress), corsage.
Bodiless, a. Incorporeal, without a body.
Bodily, a.
- 1. Of the body.
- 2. Corporeal, physical.
Bodily, ad.
- 1. Corporeally.
- 2. Entirely (as respects the body or mass), completely, wholly, altogether.
Body, n.
- 1. Material substance, material part (as distinguished from the spirit or life).