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A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases. "Ods bodikin." "Ods pity." Shak.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

Bloodshed. Shak.

els turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] Shak.

Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

See Emerods. [Obs.]

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

ank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.