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See Cabob, n. & v. t.

rope from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

Partially obtuse.

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." Macaulay. Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.…

Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. " Will duck his head aside. Swift.

The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

(a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant (Coptis trifolia), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States. -- Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thre…

simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. -- Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. -- Harmonic series or progression. See under Progression. -- Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes re…

s for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.

The bobolink.