Bode"ment (&?;), n. An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl

Makes all these bodements.

Shak.

Bodge (&?;), n. A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

Bodge (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodged (&?;).] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]

Bodge, v. i. See Budge.

Bo"di*an (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

Bod"ice (&?;), n. [This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body.] 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

Her bodice half way she unlaced.

Prior.

Bod"iced (&?;), a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

Bod"ied (&?;), a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied.

Hakluyt.

Bod"i*less (&?;), a. 1. Having no body.

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