5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Bod"kin, n. See Baudekin. [Obs.] Shirley.

Bo"dle (&?;), n. A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

Bod"lei*an, a. Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

Bo*dock" (&?;), n. [Corrupt. fr. bois d'arc.] The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

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