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Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.

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

t.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instructi…

A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak.

nglish machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

The common qua(Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

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

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

Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." L'Estrange.

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Absent in body, but present in spirit. 1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

ss vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]

To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.