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Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv.

A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

A raid. [Obs.]

ead, 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.

A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse. -- n.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Behoves or behooves. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mire 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.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

A bogey. [Local, Eng.]

unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

One who boggles.

Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.