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The border or side of anything. (Naut.)

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

itious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay.

the room. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton.

A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

l out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]

That which binds, ties, fastens,or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

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

Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as,

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

To bilge. [Obs.] "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.

To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift.

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