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Who to his wife, before the time assign'd
For childbirth came, thus bluntly spoke his mind.
Dryden.

BLUNTNESS. n. s. [from blunt.]
J. Want of edge or point; dulness; ob-
tuseness; want of sharpness.

The crafty boy, that had full oft essay'd
To pierce my stubborn and resisting breast,
But still the bluntness of his darts betray'd.

Suckling. 2. Coarseness; roughness of manners; rude sincerity.

C

out thinking: commonly with out intensive.

Others cast out bloody and deadly speeches at random; and cannot hold, but blurt out, those words, which afterwards they are forced to eat. Hakerill

They had some belief of a Deity, which they.
upon surprizal, thus blurt out. Gov. of Tongue.
They blush if they blurt out, ere well aware,
A swan is white, or Queensbury is fair. Young.
To BLUSH. v. n. [blosen, Dutch.]

1. To betray shame, or confusion, by a
red colour in the cheeks or forehead.
I have mark'd

2.

His silence grew wit, his bluntness integrity, his beastly ignorance virtuous simplicity. Sidney. Manage disputes with civility; whence some readers will be assisted to discern a difference be- 3. twixt bluntness of speech and strength of reason. Boyle.

False friends, his deadliest foes, could find no way,

But shows of honest bluntness to betray. Dryd. BLUNTWITTED. adj. [from blunt and wit.] Dull; stupid.

Bluntwitted lord, ignoble in demeanour. Shak. BLUR. n. s. [borra, Span. a blot, Skinner.] A blot; a stain; a spot.

Man, once fallen, was nothing but a great blur; a total universal pollution. South.

To BLUR. v. a. [from the noun.]

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A thousand blushing apparitions

To start into her face; a thousand innocent
shames,

In angel whiteness, bear away these blushes.
Shakspeare.
I will go wash:
And, when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no.
Shakspeare.

All these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. Bacen. Shame causeth blushing; blushing is the resort of the blood to the face; although blushing will be seen in the whole breast, yet that is but in Bacon., passage to the face.

Blush then, but blush for your destructive silence, That tears your soul.

Smith.

To carry a red colour, or any soft and bright colour.

To-day he puts forth

The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him.
Shakspeare.

But here the roses blush so rare,
Here the morning smiles so fair,
As if neither cloud nor wind,
But would be courteous, would be kind.

Crashare.
Along those blushing borders, bright with dew.
Thomson.

It has at before the cause of shame.
He whin'd, and roar'd away your victory,
That pages blush'd at him; and men of heart
Look'd wond'ring at each other. Shakspeart-

You have not yet lost all your natural modesty, but blush at your vices. Calamy's Sermons. to BLUSH. v. a. To make red. Not used,

Pale and bloodless,

Being all descended to the lab'ring heart, Which with the heart there cools, and ne'er returneth

To blush and beautify the cheek again. Sbaks. BLUSH. n. 5. [from the verb.]

1. To blot; to obscure, without quite 1. The colour in the cheeks, raised by effacing.

Such an act,

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,

Calls virtue hypocrite.
Shakspeare.
Long is it since I saw him;
But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of fa-
vour,

Which then he wore.

Shakspeare. Concerning innate principles, I desire these men to say whether they can, or cannot, by education and custom, be blurred and blotted out?

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shame or confusion.

The virgin's wish, without her fears, impart; Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart.Pepe. 2. A red or purple colour.

3. Sudden appearance: a signification that seems barbarous, yet used by good writers.

All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear to contain no certain instruction in them. Locke.

BLU'SHY. adj. [from blush.] Having the

colour of a blush.

Blossoms of trees, that are white, are com monly inodorate; those of apples, crabs, peaches, are blusby, and smell sweet. Baten.

Stratonica entering, moved a blusby colour in

his face; but deserting him, he relapsed into paleness and languor. Harvey on Consumptions. To BLU'STER. v. n. [supposed from blast.]

1. To roar as a storm; to be violent and loud.

Earth his uncouth mother was, And blust'ring olus his boasted sire. Spenser. So now he storms with many a sturdy stoure; So now his blust'ring blast each coast doth scour. Spenser. 2. To bully; to puff; to swagger; to be tumultuous.

My heart's too big to bear this, says a blustering fellow; I'll destroy myself. Sir, says the gentleman, here's a dagger at your service: so the humour went off. L'Estrange.

Either he must sink to a downright confession, or must huff and bluster, till perhaps he raise a counter-storm. Government of the Tongue.

Virgil had the majesty of a lawful prince, and Statius only the blustering of a tyrant. Dryden. There let him reign the jailor of the wind; With hoarse commands his breathing subjects call,

And boast and bluster in his empty hall. Dryden. BLU'STER. n. s. [from the verb.]

1. Roar of storms; tempest.

The skies look grimly,

And threaten present blusters.

To the winds they set

Shakspeare.

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So, by the brazen trumpet's bluster, Troops of all tongues and nations muster. Swift. 3. Turbulence; fury.

Spare thy Athenian cradle, and those kin Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall With those that have offended. Shakspeare. 4. Boast; boisterousness.

A coward makes a great deal more bluster than a man of honour. L'Estrange. BLU'STERER. n. s. [from bluster.] A swaggerer; a bully; a tumultuous noisy fellow.

BLU'STROUS. adj. [from bluster.] Tu.multuous; noisy.

The ancient heroes were illustrious

For being benign, and not blustrous. Hudibras. B MI. n. s. A note in musick.

Gamut I am, the ground of all accord, B mi, Bianca, take him for thy lord. Shakspeare. Bo. interj. A word of tèrrour; from Bo, an old northern captain, of such fame, that his name was used to terrify the enemy. Temple. BO'AR. n. s. [ban, Saxon; beer, Dutch.] The male swine.

Shaks.

To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, Were to incense the boar to follow us. She sped the boar away: His eyeballs glare with fire, suffus'd with blood; His neck shuts up a thickset thorny wood; His bristled back a trench impal'd appears. Dryd. BO'AR-SPEAR. n. s. [from boar and spear.] A spear used in hunting the boar.

And in her hand a sharp boar-spear she held, And at her back a bow and quiver gay, Stuff'd with steel-headed darts. Fairy Queen. Echion threw the first, but miss'd his mark, And struck his boar-spear on a maple bark. Dryd. BOARD. n. s. [baurd, Gothic; bræd, Saxon.]

1. A piece of wood, of more length and

breadth than thickness.

With the saw they sundred trees in boards and planks. Raleigh. Every house has a board over the door, whereon is written the number, sex, and quality, of the persons living in it. Temple. Go now, go trust the wind's uncertain breath, Remov'd four fingers from approaching death; Or seven at most, when thickest is the board. Dryden.

2. A table. [from burdd, Welsh.]

Soon after which, three hundred lords he slew, Of British blood, all sitting at his board. F. Queen. In bed he slept not, for my urging it; At board he fed not, for my urging it. Shaks. I'll follow thee in fun'ral flames; when dead, My ghost shall thee attend at board and bed. Sir J. Denham.

Cleopatra made Antony a supper, which was sumptuous and royal; howbeit there was no extraordinary service upon the board. Hakewill. May ev'ry god his friendly aid afford; Pan guard thy flock, and Ceres bless thy board. Prior.

3. Entertainment; food.

4. A table at which a council or court is held.

Both better acquainted with affairs, than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. 5. An assembly seated at a table; a court of jurisdiction.

I wish the king would be pleased sometimes to be present at that board; it adds a majesty to it. Bacon.

6. The deck or floor of a ship; on board signifies in a ship.

Now board to board the rival vessels row,
The billows lave the skies, and ocean groans be-
low.
Dryden.

Our captain thought his ship in so great danger, that he confessed himself to a capuchin, who was on board. Addison.

He ordered his men to arm long poles with sharp hooks, wherewith they took hold of the tackling which held the mainyard to the mast of their enemy's ship; then, rowing their own ship, they cut the tackling, and brought the mainyard by the board. Arbuthnot on Coins.

To BOARD. v.a. [from the noun.]
1. To enter a ship by force; the same as
storm, used of a city.

I boarded the king's ship: now on the beak,
Now in the waste, the deck, in every cabin,
I flam'd amazement.
Shakspeare.

He, not inclin'd the English ship to board,
More on his guns relies than on his sword,
From whence a fatal volley we receiv'd;
It miss'd the duke, but his great heart it griev'd.
Waller.

Arm, arm, she cry'd, and let our Tyrians board
With ours his fleet, and carry fire and sword.
Denham.
2. To attack, or make the first attempt
upon a man ; aborder quelqu'un, Fr.
Whom thus at gaze, the palmer 'gan to board
With goodly reason, and thus fair bespake.
Fairy Queen.
Away, I do beseech you both, away;
I'll board him presently. Shakspeare's Hamlet.
Sure, unless he knew some strain in me, that
I knew not myself, he would never have boarded
me in this fury.
Shakspeare.

They learn what associates and correspondents they had, and how far every one is engaged, and what new ones they meant afterwards to try or board, Bacon's Henry VH.

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'As we at first did board with thee, Now thou wouldst taste our misery. Herbert.

We are several of us, gentlemen aud ladies, who board in the saine house; and, after dinner, one of our company stands up, and reads your paper to us all.

Spectator.

To BOARD. v. a. To place as a boarder in another's house. BOARD-WAGES. n. s. [from board and avages.] Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victuals.

What more than madness reigns, When one short sitting many hundreds drains; And not enough is left him to supply Board-wages, or a footman's livery! Dryden. BOʻARDER. n. s. [from board.] A tabler; one that eats with another at a settled rate.

BOARDING-SCHOOL. n. s. [from board and school.] A school where the scholars live with the teacher. It is commonly used of a school for girls.

A blockhead with melodious voice,

In boarding-schools can have his choice. Swift. Bo'ARISH. adj. [from boar.] Swinish; brutal; cruel.

I would not see thy cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister In his anointed flesh stick bearish phangs. Shak.

To BOAST. v. n. [bôst, Welsh.]

1. To brag; to display one's own worth, or actions, in great words.

Let not him that putteth on his harness, boast himself as he that putteth it off.

The sp'rits beneath,'

Whom I seduc'd, boasting I could subdue 'Th' Omnipotent.

2. To talk ostentatiously.

Kings.

Milton.

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia. 1 Corinthians.

3. It is commonly used with of.

My sentence is for open war; of wiles, More inexpert, I boast not.

4. Sometimes with in.

Milton.

They boast in mortal things, and wond'ring tell Of Babel, and the works of Memphian kings. Milton. Some surgeons I have met, carrying bones about in their pockets, boasting in that which

was their shame.

5. To exalt one's self.

Wiseman.

Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and multiplied your words against me. Ezek To BOAST. v. a.

1. To brag of; to display with ostentatious language.

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you,, I am not ashamed. 2 Corinthians.

Neither do the spirits damn'd Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

If they vouchsafed to give God the praise of his goodness; yet they did it only in order to beast the interest they had in him. Atterbury,

2. To magnify; to exalt.

They that trust in their wealth, and beast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms. Confounded be all them that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Psalms. BOAST. n. s. [from the verb.]

1. An expression of ostentation; a proud speech.

2.

Thou,that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonouret thou God? Rom. The world is more apt to find fault than to commend; the beast will probably be censured, when the great action that occasioned it is forgotten. Spectator. A cause of boasting; an occasion of pride; the thing boasted.

Not Tyro, nor Mycene, match her name, Nor great Alcmena, the proud boasts of farme. Popt BO'ASTER, n. s. [from boast.] A brag ger; a man that vaunts any thing ostentatiously.

Complaints the more candid and judicious of the chymists themselves are wont to make of those boasters, that confidently pretend that they have extracted the salt or sulphur of quicksilver, when they have disguised it by additaments, wherewith it resembles the concretes. Bogle.

No more delays, vain boaster! but begin: I prophesy beforehand I shall win: I'll teach you how to brag another time. Dryd He the proud boasters sent, with stern assault, Down to the realms of night. Philips. BOASTFUL. adj. [from boast and full.] Ostentatious; inclined to brag.

Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar. Pope.

BO'ASTINGLY. adj. [from boasting.] Os tentatiously.

We look on it as a pitch of impiety, boastingly to avow our sins; and it deserves to be considered, whether this kind of confessing them, have not some affinity with it. Decay of Picty. BOAT. n. s. [bat, Saxon.] 1. A vessel to pass the water in. It is usually distinguished from other vessels, by being smaller and uncovered, and commonly moved by rowing.

I do not think that any one nation, the Syrian excepted, to whom the knowledge of the ark came, did find out at once the device of either ship or boat, in which they durst venture themselves upon the seas. Raleigh's Essays.

An effeminate scoundrel multitude! Whose utmost daring is to cross the Nile In painted boats, to fright the crocodile.

Tate's Juvenal. 2. A ship of a small size; as, a passage boat, pacquet boat, advice boat, fiy boat. BOA'TION. n. s. [from boare, Lat.] Roar; noise; loud sound.

In Messina insurrection, the guns were heard from thence as far as Augusta and Syracuse, about an hundred Italian miles, in loud boations.

Derbam.

BO'ATMAN. n. s. [from boat and man.]

BOʻATMAN'} He that manages a boat.

Boatsmen through the crystal water show, To wond'ring passengers, the walls below. Dryd. That booby Phaon only was unkind, An ill-bred boatman, rough as waves and wind. Prir. BO'ATSWAIN. n. s. [from boat and swain.] An officer on board a ship, who has

BOB

charge of all her rigging, ropes, cables, anchors, sails, flags, colours, pendants, &c. He also takes care of the longboat, and its furniture, and steers her either by himself or his mate. He calls out the several gangs and companies to the execution of their watches, works, and spells; and he is also a kind of provost-marshal, seizes and punishes all offenders, that are sentenced by the captain, or court-martial of the whole fleet. Harris. Sometimes the meanest boatswain may help to preserve the ship froin sinking.

Howel's Pre-eminence of Parliament. To BOB. v. a. [of uncertain etymology: Skinner deduces it from bobo, foolish, Span.]

1. To cut. Junius. Whence bobtail. 2. To beat; to drub; to bang.

Those bastard Britons, whom our fathers Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and Shakspeare. thump'd.

3. To cheat; to gain by fraud.

I have bobbed his brain more than he has beat

my bones.

Live, Roderigo!

He calls me to a restitution large

Shakspeare.

Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,
As gifts to Desdemona.

Shakspeare. Here we have been worrying one another, who should have the booty, till this cursed fox L'Estrange. has bobb'd us both on't.

To BOB. v. n. To play backward and
forward; to play loosely against any
thing.

And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab;
And when she drinks against her lips I bob,
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.

Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
They comb, and then they order cv'ry hair;
A birthday jewel bobbing at their ear. Dryden.
You may tell her,

Dryden.

I'm rich in jewels, rings, and bobbing pearls, Pluck'd from Moors ears. BOB. n. s. [from the verb neuter.] 1. Something that hangs so as to play loosely; generally an ornament at the ear; a pendant ; an ear-ring.

The gaudy gossip, when she 's set agog, In jewels drest, and at each ear a bob. Dryden. 2. The words repeated at the end of a stanza.

To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. 3. A blow.

L'Estrange.

I am sharply taunted, yea sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs. Ascham's Schoolmaster. 4. A mode of ringing. BO'BBIN, n. s. [bobine, Fr. from bombyx, Lat.] A small pin of wood, with a notch, to wind the thread about when women weave lace.

The things you follow, and make songs on now, should be sent to knit, or sit down to bobbins, or Tatler. bonelace. Bo'BBINWORK. n. s. [from bobbin and work.] Work woven with bobbins.

Not netted nor woven with warp and woof, Grew. but after the manner of bobbinwork. Bo'BCHERRY. n.s. [from bob and cherry.] A play among children, in which the

cherry is hung so as to bob against the mouth.

Bobcherry teaches at once two noble virtues, patience and constancy: the first, in adhering to the pursuit of one end; the latter, in bearing a disappointment. Arbuthnot and Pope. Bo'BTAIL. n. s. [from bob, in the sense of cut.] Cut tail; short tail. Avaunt, you curs!

Be thy mouth or black or white,
Or bobtail tike, or trundle tail,

'om will make him weep and wail. Shakspeare. BOBTAILED. a. [from bobtail.] Having a tail cut, or short.

There was a bobtailed cur cried in a gazette, and one that found him brought him home to L'Estrange. his master.

BuBWIG. n. s. [from bob and wig.] short wig.

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A young fellow riding towards us full gallop, with a bobrig and a black silken bag tied to it, stopt short at the coach, to ask us how far the Spectator. judges were behind. Bo'CASINE. n. s. A sort of linen cloth ; a fine buckram. Bo'CKELET. n. s. A kind of long-winged hawk. Bo'CKERET.S

Dict.

Dict.

To BODE. v. a. [bodian, Sax.] To por
tend; to be the omen of. It is used in
a sense of either good or bad.

This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Hamlet,

You have opposed their false policy with true and great wisdom; what they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths. Spratt's Sermons. It happen'd once, a boding prodigy! A swarm of bees that cut the liquid sky Upon the topmast branch in clouds alight. Dryd. If fiery red his glowing globe descends, High winds and furious tempests he portends; But if his cheeks are swoln with livid blue, He bodes wet weather by his watry hue. Dryd To BODE. v. n. To be an omen; to foreshow.

Sir, give me leave to say, whatever now
The omen prove, it boded well to you. Dryden.
BO'DEMENT. n. s. [from bode.] Portent;
omen; prognostick.

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Shakspeare,
Makes all these bodements.
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be, until
Great Birnam wood to Dunsinane's high hill
Shall come against him.-

-That will never be:
Shakspeare.
Sweet bodements, good.
To BODGE. v. n. [a word in Shakspeare,
which is perhaps corrupted from boggle.]
To boggle; to stop; to fail.

With this we charg'd again; but out, alas!
We body'd again: as I have seen a swan,
With bootless labour, swim against the tide.
Shakspeare,
BO'DICE. n. s. [from bodies.] Stays; a
waistcoat quilted with whalebone, worn
by women.

Her bodice half way she unlac'd;
About his arms she slily cast
The silken band, and held him fast.

Prior.

This consideration should keep ignorant nurses Locke. and bodice makers from meddling. Bo’DILESS. adj. [from body.] incorporeal; having no body.

They bodiless and immaterial are, And can be only lodg'd within our minds. Davies

This is the very coinage of our brain;

This bed less creation ecstasy

Is very cunning in.

These are but shadows, Phantoms bodiless and vain, Empty visions of the brain. Bo'DILY. adj. [from body.]

1. Corporeal; containing body.

Shakspeare.

Swift.

What resemblance could wood or stone bear to a spirit void of all sensible qualities, and bodily dimensions? South.

2. Relating to the body, not the mind.

Of such as resorted to our Saviour Christ, being present on earth, there came not any unto him with better success, for the benefit of their

'Tis a passing shame,
That I, unworthy body as I am,

Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen. Sbak.
No body seeth me ; what need I to fear? the
Most High will not remember my sins. Ecclus.
All civility and reason obliged every body to
submit.
Clarendon.

Good may be drawn out of evil, and a body's life may be saved without having any obligation to his preserver. L'Estrange. 4. Reality opposed to representation. A scriptural sense.

A shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Colossians.

souls everlasting happiness, than they whose 5. A collective mass; a joint power.

bodily necessities gave occasion of seeking relief. Hooker.

Virtue atones for bodily defects; beauty is nothing worth, without a mind. L'Estrange.

As clearness of the bodily eye doth dispose it for a quicker sight; so doth freedom from lust and passion dispose us for the most perfect acts of reason. Tillotson.

I would not have children much beaten for their faults, because I would not have them think bodily pain the greatest punishment. Locke. 3. Real; actual.

Whatever hath been thought on in this state, That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome Had circumvention. Shakspeare.

Bo'DILY. adv. Corporeally; united with

matter.

It is his human nature, in which the godhead dwells bodily, that is advanced to these honours, and to this empire. Watts. Bo'DKIN. n. s. [boddiken, or small body; Skinner.]

1. An instrument with a small blade and sharp point, used to bore holes.

Each of them had bodkins in their hands, wherewith continually they pricked him. Sidney. 2. An instrument to draw a thread or riband through a loop.

Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie,
Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope.
3. An instrument to dress the hair.
You took constant care

The bodkin, comb, and essence, to prepare:
For this your locks in paper durance bound.

Pope. BODY. n. s. [bodig, Saxon; it originally signified the height or stature of a man.]

1. The material substance of an animal, opposed to the immaterial soul.

All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall. Samuel.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for body, what ye shall put on.

your Mattber. By custom, practice, and patience, all difficulties and hardships, whether of body or of fortune, are made easy. L'Estrange.

2. Matter: opposed to spirit.
3. A person; a human being: whence
somebody and nobody.

Surely, a wise body's part it were not to put out his fire, because his foolish neighbour, from whom he borrowed wherewith to kindle it, might say, Were it not for me thou wouldst freeze.

A deflow'red maid!
And by an eminent body, that enforc'd
The law against it!

Hooker.

Shakspeare.

There is in the knowledge both of God and man this certainty, that life and death have divided between them the whole body of mankind. Hooker.

There were so many disaffected persons of the nobility, that there might a body start up for the king. Clarendon. When pigmies pretend to form themselves into a body, it is time for us, who are men of figure, to look about us. Addison's Guardian. 6. The main army; the battle: distinct from the wings, van, and rear.

The van of the king's army was led by the general and Wilmot; in the body was the king and the prince; and the rear consisted of one thousand foot, commanded under colonel Thelwell. Clarender.

7. A corporation; a number of men united by some common tie.

I shall now mention a particular wherein your whole body will be certainly against me; and the laity, almost to a man, on my side. Srift.

Nothing was more common, than to hear that reverend body charged with what is inconsistent; despised for their poverty, and hated for their riches. Swift.

8. The main part; the bulk: as, the body, or hull, of a ship; the body of a coach; the body of a church; the body, or trunk, of a man; the body, or trunk, of a tree.

9.

Thence sent rich merchandizes by boat to Babylon; from whence, by the body of Euphrates, as far as it bended westward; and, afterward, by a branch thereof. Raleigh. This city has navigable rivers, that run up into the body of Italy; they might supply many countries with fish. Addison. A substance; matter, as distinguished from other matter.

Even a metalline body, and therefore much more a vegetable or animal, may, by fire, be turned into water.

Boyle.

10. [In geometry.] Any solid figure.
11. A pandect; a general collection: as, a
body of the civil law; a body of divinity.
12. Strength; as, wine of a good body.
BODY-CLOTHES. n. s. [from body and
clothes.] Clothing for horses that are
dieted.

I am informed, that several asses are kept in body-cloaths, and sweated every morning upon the heath. Addison.

Fo Bo'DY. v. a. [from the noun.] To
produce in some form.

As imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shape.
Shakspeare.
BOG. n. s. [bog, soft, Irish; bague, Fr.]
A marsh; a morass; a ground too soft
to bear the weight of the body.

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