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lay 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.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, bobs.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

t commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English 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.

Work woven with bobbins.

Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] Dickens.

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

The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.] The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells.

A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

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

To roast, as a cabob. Sir. T. Herbert.