BPage 199
- English Word Bob-cherry Definition A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
- English Word Bobac Definition The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
- English Word Bobance Definition A boasting.
- English Word Bobbed Definition of Bob
- English Word Bobber Definition One who, or that which, bobs.
- English Word Bobbery Definition A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
- English Word Bobbin Definition A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
- English Word Bobbin Definition A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
- English Word Bobbin Definition The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
- English Word Bobbin Definition A fine cord or narrow braid.
- English Word Bobbin Definition A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
- English Word Bobbinet Definition A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
- English Word Bobbing Definition of Bob
- English Word Bobbinwork Definition Work woven with bobbins.
- English Word Bobbish Definition Hearty; in good spirits.
- English Word Bobby Definition A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
- English Word Bobfly Definition The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
- English Word Bobolink Definition An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
- English Word Bobsled Definition Alt. of Bobsleigh
- English Word Bobsleigh Definition A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
- 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.