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A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]

A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

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

See Bookland.

Veal too immature to be suitable for food.

See Bodick.

ns, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

aintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n.

A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

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

Having no body.

Corporeality. Minsheu.

Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler.