5. (Elec.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. -- Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.
Bob`bi*net" (&?;), n. [Bobbin + net.] 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.
Bob"bin*work` (&?;), n. Work woven with bobbins.
Bob"bish (&?;), a. Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] Dickens.
Bob"by (&?;), n. A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.
Bob"-cher`ry (&?;), n. A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
Bob"fly` (&?;), n. (Fishing) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
Bob"o*link` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). 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.
{ Bob"sled` (&?;), Bob"sleigh` } (&?;), n. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.]
The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
W. D. Howells.
Bob"stay` (&?;), n. [Bob + stay.] (Naut.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Bob"tail` (&?;), n. [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.
Bob"tail`, a. Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." Marryat.
Bob"tailed` (&?;), a. Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
Bob"white` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
Bob" wig` (&?;). A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.
Bo"cal (&?;), n. [F.] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
Bo*car"do (&?;), n. [A mnemonic word.] 1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians.
Bowen.
2. A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.
Boc"a*sine (&?;), n. [F. bocassin, boucassin.] A sort of fine buckram.
||Boc"ca (&?;), n. [It., mouth.] The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.
Boce (bs), n. [L. box, bocis, Gr. bo`ax, bw^x.] (Zoöl.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
Bock" beer` (&?;). [G. bockbier; bock a buck + bier beer; -- said to be so named from its tendency to cause the drinker to caper like a goat.] A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]
Bock"e*let (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]
Bock"ey (&?;), n. [D. bokaal.] A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.
Bock"ing, n. 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.
Bock"land (&?;), n. See Bookland.
Bod"dice (&?;), n. See Bodick.
Bode (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo&?;a to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid.] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief.
Goldsmith.
Good onset bodes good end.
Spenser.
Bode, v. i. To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.