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ithout fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.

A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

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

large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

A small West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

eing; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

ad. [Obs.] As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

after trespassers. -- Bow drill, a drill worked by a bow and string. -- Bow instrument (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window (Arch.) See Bay window. -- To draw a long bow, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement. Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.

lackstone. Boxing glove, a large padded mitten or glove used in sparring for exercise or amusement.

ting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.

Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer.

Brawny; strong; muscular. [Obs.] Spenser.