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Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.

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 hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

hen its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.

his gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade.

It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

ranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each…

o mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

out appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

-- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.