bockelet 
bockelett, . See bockcrcl. 
bockerelt (bok'e-rel), . [Also written boc- 
atrrl, with fern!' forms bockeret and boccaret, 
also bockelet, dim. forms of unknown origin; 
possibly from the same source (OF. ftoc) as 
bii/i'lifi', <>F. hnkirr, hoitkir-r, F. bonclier ; cf. E. 
biitclii r-hii-d. tlie great gray shrike.] The male 
of a kind of falcon, the female being designated 
bockeret or boccaret. 
bockerett, See bockerel. 
bockey (bok'i), . [Prob. < D. bakje, a small 
bowl or vessel, dim. of bak : see backZ. ] A bowl 
or vessel made from a gourd. [New York.] 
booking 1 (bok'ing), M. A coarse woolen drug- 
get or baize, named from Booking, in Essex, 
England, where it was first made. 
booking 2 (bok'ing), . [< D. booking (= MHG. 
biickinc, G. bucking), a smoked herring, appar. 
< bok (= E. buckl), a goat, + -ing.'] A red her- 
ring. Crabb. 
bocklandt, w. See bocktnd. 
bockmant, See bocman. 
bock-pot (bok'pot), n. Same as bucks. 
boclandt, . [That is, bocland, the early ME. 
and AS. form of bookland.] Same as bookland. 
bocleti " An obsolete form of buckle^. 
bocmant, [That is, boeman, the early ME. 
and AS. form (recorded only in legal (ML.) 
documents) of bookman.] A holder of book- 
land (which see). 
boco-WOOd (bo'ko-wud), n. The wood of a le- 
guminous tree, Bocoa Provaeensis, of Guiana. 
It is very hard and dark-colored, and is much 
used for furniture, and for carving and turning. 
bodach (bo'dach), n. [Gael., a churlish old 
man, a rustic, = Ir. bodach, a rustic, clown.] 
1. An old man. Scott. 2. A local British 
name of the small ringed seal, Fhoca fostida. 
bodark (bo'dark), . [Corruption of F. bois 
(Care, lit. bow-wood: see bois, bush*, and arc*, 
arc/i 1 .] A local name for the Osage orange, or 
bow-wood. Also spelled bowdark. See Madura. 
boddice, . See bodice. 
boddle 1 , . See bodle. 
boddle 2 ,". [E. dial. ; origin obscure.] A small 
iron instrument used by woodmen for peeling 
oaks and other trees. Hattiwett. [North. Eng.] 
boddum (bod'um), . [E. dial, and Sc.] A 
dialectal form of bottom'-. 
bode 1 (bod), w. [In mod. E. archaic, early ME. 
bode, < AS. boda (= OFries. boda = OS. bodo = 
D. bode = OHG. 60 to, MHG. G. bate = Icel. bodhi 
= Sw. Dan. bud), a messenger, < beddan (pp. 
boden), announce: see bid, and cf. beadle, also a 
noun of agent from the same verb.] A mes- 
senger; a herald; one who announces or con- 
veys a message. 
bpde 1 (bod), v. ; pret. and pp. boded, ppr. bod- 
ing. [< ME. boden, bodien, < AS. bodian (= 
OFries. bndin = Icel. bodha = Sw. b&da = Dan. 
be-bude), tell, announce, < boda, a messenger: 
see bode^, n., and cf. bode?, n. Hence forebode, 
q. v.] I. traits. If. To announce; proclaim; 
preach. 2f. To decree; command; bid. 3. 
To announce beforehand; prognosticate; pre- 
dict; presage. [Archaic.] 
Prophet of plagues, for ever boding ill. 
Pope, Iliad, i. 182. 
4. To portend ; augur ; be an omen or indica- 
tion of ; betoken : with a non-personal subject. 
In the gross and scope of my opinion, 
This boden gome strange eruption to our state. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 
I pray God, his bad voice bode no mischief ! 
Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3. 
Upon which he mounted, and his horse wept : and then 
he saw clearly how this should bode his death. 
De Quinceif, tr. of Cretan Ballad. 
5. To forebode or have a presentiment of (ill, 
or coming disaster). 
And my soul, dark-stirred with the prophet's mood, 
Bodes nothing good. 
J. S. Blackie, tr. of .Eschylus, ii. 229. 
= Syn. 4. To augur, betoken, portend. 
II. intrans. 1. To promise; portend: with 
well or ill : as, this bodes well for your success. 
2. To presage something evil; be of evil omen. 
I would croak like a raven ; I would bode, I would bode 
Shak., T. and C., v. 2. 
Fear for ages had boded and mowed and gibbered over 
government and property. Emerson, Compensation. 
bode 2 (bod), . [< ME. bode, bod, a command, 
an announcement, a bid, price offered, < AS. 
lioil, usually gebod (or bebod) (= OFries. Imil = 
OS. gibod = D. gebod, a command, bod, a bid, 
offer, = OHG. gabot, MHG. G. gebot, hot = led. 
bodh = Sw. Dan. bud, a command, etc.), < beo- 
dan (pp. boden), announce, command, bid: see 
608 
bid, and cf. bode*, v.~\ If. A command; an 
order. 2f. An announcement; a message. 
The owle eke, that of detli the bode briiigetli. 
Chaucer, Parliament of fowls, 1. 343. 
3f. Omen; premonition; augury. 
If no fate 
Have an unlucky bode. Shirley, Love in a Maze, v. 6. 
4f. A foreboding; presentiment. 5. A bid; 
the price offered by a buyer or asked by a sel- 
ler. [Scotch.] 
Ye should never tak' a fish-wife's first bode. 
Scott, Antiquary, xxxix. 
bode 2 (bod), v. t. ; pret. bode, pp. boden, ppr. bod- 
ing. [< ftode 2 , M., 5.] To bid for; make an offer 
for; buy. [Scotch.] 
bode 3 (bod). Preterit and past participle of bide. 
bode 4 t (bod), n. [< ME. bode, bade, a stop, delay, 
< biden (pret. bode, bod, bad), bide. Cf. abode 1 , 
re., of similar formation.] A stop; delay. 
Withouten bode his heste she obeyed. 
Chaucer, Anelida and Arc., 1. 119. 
bode 5 t, bodent, pp. [ME. forms of the pp. of 
beden, bid, command: see bid.'] Bidden; com- 
manded. 
bodeful (bod'ful), a. [< bode*, n., + -//.] Omi- 
nous; threatening; foreboding. 
Uttering the dismal bodeful sounds of death. J. Baillie. 
Poor Weber almost swooned at the sound of these 
cracked voices, with their bodeful raven-note. 
Carlyle, French Rev., I. iii. 8. 
Lady Macbeth hears not so much the voice of the bode- 
ful bird as of her own premeditated murder, and we are 
thus made her shuddering accomplices before the fact. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 186. 
bodega (bo-de'ga), . [Sp., < ML. apotheca: 
see apothe'c.] A wine-cellar, or a shop where 
wine is sold from the wood; a wine-vault. 
A wine bodega near the Grand Theatre caught fire. 
New York Herald. 
bodementt (bod'ment), re. [< bode 1 , v., + 
-ment.] An omen; portent; prognostic; a 
foreshowing: as, "sweet bodements!" Shak., 
Macbeth, iv. 1. 
bodent, PP- See bode 5 . 
boden (bo'den), a. [Sc., also written bodin, 
and formerly boddin, < ME. (Sc.) bodyn, bodin, 
appar. a particular use of boden, pp. of ME. 
beden, bid (see bid); but the sense suggests 
some confusion with boun, ready: see boun, 
bound*.] Accoutred; armed; fitted out; pro- 
vided; prepared. 
The Baron of Avenel never rides with fewer than ten 
jack-men at his back, and oftener with fifty, bodin in all 
that elfeirs to war, as if they were to do battle for a king- 
dom. Scott, Monastery, II. 181. 
Bodenheimer ( bo ' den - hi - mer), re. [< Soden- 
heim, a village near Mainz.] A white wine 
grown near Mainz in Germany. 
Bode's law. See law. 
bode-wash (bod'wosh), . [Corruption of F. 
bois de vaclie, lit. cow's wood, or idiomatically 
"buffalo-chip."] The dried dung of the Amer- 
ican bison or buffalo, used for fuel. Bartlett. 
See buffalo-chip. 
bodge 1 (boj),t>.i. [Another form of botch*, v.] To 
boggle ; botch ; patch. [Obsolete or dialectal.] 
All the actions of his life are like so many things body'd 
in without any naturall cadence or connexion at all. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Affected Man. 
bodge 1 ! (boj), w. [Another form of botch 2 .] A 
botch ; a patch. 
Taking revenge on Thomas Sash, Gabriell Harvey taxes 
him with having forged "a misshapen rabblement of ab- 
surd and ridiculous words, the proper bodges of his new- 
fangled figure, called foolrisme." 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 110. 
bodge 2 t (boj), v. i. [Appar. a var. of budge 1 .'] 
To midge; give way: used only in the passage 
cited. 
With this, we charg'd again : but out, alas ! 
We bodg'd again. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 
bodgerM (boj'er), . [< bodge + -er l ; var. of 
botcher 1 .] A botcher. 
bodger 2 (boj'er), n. [Appar. a var. of badger^, 
q. v.] A peddler; a hawKer. [Prov. Eug.] 
bodhisat (bo'di-sat), n. Same as bodhisattva. 
The beings who will in due course become Buddhas are 
called Bodhisat. They are numberless. 
S. Hardy, Manual of Buddhism. 
bodhisatship (bo'di-sat-ship), n. In Budilhixm. 
the highest degree of saintsnip. See bodhisatt- 
rn. Also spelled bodisatship. 
The leaders of the Great Vehicle [that is, the Mahayana 
development of Buddhism] urged their followers to seek 
to attain, not so much to Arhatship, which would involve 
only their own salvation, but to Bodisatship, by the at- 
tainment of which they would be conferring the blessings 
of the Dhamma [law of Buddha] upon countless multi- 
tudes in the long ages of the future. 
Kncyc. Brit., XIV. 22. 
bodily 
bodhisattva (bo-di-sat'va), w. [Skt. (> Sin- 
ghalese bodhisat, bodisat, Jap. bosatsu, Chin. 
poosah), < bodhi, intelligence, wisdom (< / 
bndh, know : see Buddha), + sattra, being, es- 
sence, < sant (= L. ens), being, ppr. of / as, be : 
see be 1 .] In Buddhism of the northern school, 
or the later development called the Mahayana, 
one of a numerous class of beings who, having 
arrived at supreme wisdom (bodhi), have to pass 
through human existence only once more be- 
fore attaining to Buddhahood, or complete en- 
lightenment, and entrance into Nirvana. Among 
Singhalese Buddhists called bodhiat and bottixat, among 
the Chinese poosah, and among the Japanese lm*<i'*i'i. 
bodhi-tree (bo'di-tre), . Same as bo-tree. 
bodice (bod'is), . [Sometimes spelled boddice, 
formerly bodies, being orig. pi. of body . Cf . cor- 
set.] If. A sort of inner stays or corset, laced 
in front, worn by women, and sometimes by 
men : also called a pair of bodies, or a bodies. 
2. An outer laced garment, covering the waist 
and bust, worn by women in some European 
styles of costume, often as an ornament. 3. 
More generally, the close-fitting waist or body 
of a gown. 
bodiced (bod'ist), a. [< bodice + -ed 2 .] Clothed 
in a bodice ; furnished with a bodice. 
Slim her little waist, 
Comfortably bodiced. 
Thackeray, Peg of Limavaddy. 
They appear habited in bodiced guwns. 
Archceol. Jour., XXXV. 256. 
bodied (bod'id), a. [< body + -c<V.] Having 
body, or a body, of the kind indicated by the 
context : used chiefly in composition : as, an 
able-bodied man. 
I was told by a very good judge who tasted it [wine 
made from wild grapes], that it was a pleasant, strong, 
and tM-bodied wine. Bemrley, Virginia, ii. H 15. 
bodieron (bo-di-e'ron), n. [Origin obscure.] A 
local name on the Pacific coast of the United 
States of sundry fishes of the family Chiridte 
and genus Sexagrammus. Also called rock- 
trout, rock-cod, sea-trout, boregat, and starling. 
See cut under Hexagrainmus. 
bodikin t (bod'i-Wn), . [< body + dim. -kin.] 
A diminutive of body, forming part of the ex- 
clamatory phrase "odd's bodikin," a corruption 
of God?s body. Also spelled bodykin. 
Pol. My lord, I will use them according to their desert. 
Ham. Odd's bodikin, man, better. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
bodiless (bod'i-les), a. [< body + -less.] Hav- 
ing no body or material form ; incorporeal : 
as, "phantoms bodiless and vain," Swift. 
Man is a concrete whole. He is neither a soulless body 
nor a bodiless soul. N. A. Rev., CXX. 289. 
bodiliness (bod'i-li-nes), n. [< bodily + -ness.'] 
Corporeality. Minsheu. 
bodily (bod'i-li), a. [< ME. bodily, bodili, bodi- 
liche, etc.; < body + -ly 1 .] 1. Pertaining to or 
concerning the body; of or belonging to the 
body or to the physical constitution ; not men- 
tal; corporeal: as, bodily dimensions; bodily 
exertions ; bodily pain. 
You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the 
bodily part of us. Toiler, No. 15. 
Since we are creatures with bodies, if we desire to ex- 
press a real sentiment of reverence for anyone, we must 
use some bodily act some form of words or gestures. 
Mivart, Nature and Thought, p. 233. 
2f. Having a material body. 
There are three bodily inhabitants of heaven ; Henoch, 
Elijah, our Saviour Christ. 
Bp. Hall, Rapture of Elijah (Orel MS.). 
= Syn. 1. Bodily, Physical, Corjmral, Corjioreal. Bodily 
generally means connected with the body or a body, and 
is frequently opposed to mental: as, bodily pains, bodily 
strength. Physical in this connection is often the same as 
bodili/, but may cover everything that is material, as op- 
posed to mental or spiritual : as, physical distress. Cor- 
poral relates to the body in its outward bearings : as, cor- 
poral punishment ; corporeal, to its substance, being op- 
posed to spiritual or immaterial: as, corporeal existence. 
We speak of Shakspeare's mind, but Jonson starts up al- 
ways in bodily proportions. W hippie, Ess. and Rev., II. 26. 
Dr. Beddoe . . . believes that wherever a race attains 
its maximum of physical development it rises highest in 
energy and moral vigour. Danrin, Descent of Man, I. 111. 
The poor beetle, that we tread upon. 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. >/</,.. M. for M.. iii. 1. 
When [the soul] is freed from all corporeal alliance, 
then it truly exists. Xenophon (trans), Cyrus the Elder. 
bodily (bod'i-li), adv. [ME. bodily, -H. -lirli ; < 
body + -fy 2 .] 1. Corporeally; in connection 
with a body or matter; in the flesh; in person. 
It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells 
bodily. Wutit. 
2. In respect to the entire body or mass; en- 
tirely; completely: as, to carry a thing away 
bodily. 
