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To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.

An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.

Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

t, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.

To reach or get to the bottom of. Smiles.

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

To make or get ready. Sir W. Scott.

circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

To stop. [Archaic] They stoop, they bow down together. Is. xlvi. 2

shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.