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ith affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

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

Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9

, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". Bouvier. -- Body servant, a valet. -- The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus co…

A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

ansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes. The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all. Gower.

ace 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.

d under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.

with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.

for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] Bartlett.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

To bully; to scold. [Collog.] J. Fletcher.