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- English Word Bobstay Definition A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
- English Word Bobtail Definition An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
- English Word Bobtail Definition Bobtailed.
- English Word Bobtailed Definition Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
- English Word Bobwhite Definition The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
- English Word Bocal Definition A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
- English Word Bocardo Definition A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
- English Word Bocardo Definition A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
- English Word Bocasine Definition A sort of fine buckram.
- English Word Bocca Definition The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
- English Word Boce Definition A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
- English Word Bock beer Definition A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.
- English Word Bockelet Definition A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
- English Word Bockey Definition A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
- English Word Bocking Definition A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
- English Word Bockland Definition See Bookland.
- English Word Bockland Definition Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
- English Word Boddice Definition See Bodick.
- English Word Bode Definition To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
- English Word Bode Definition To foreshow something; to augur.