English English Dictionary

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.

of Bode

See Baudekin.

A dagger.

An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.

A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.

A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

The Osage orange.

A raid.

To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.