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bode, v. forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend.
bodiless, a. incorporeal, disembodied.
bodilessness, n. incorporeality, disembodiment.
bodily, a. physical, corporal, corporeal.
boding, a. ominous, portentous.
boding, n. omen, sign, prognostic, foreboding, augury, auspice, portent.
bodkin, n. stiletto, eyeleteer; tape needle.
body, n. the physical person; torso, trunk; physique; bulk, ma.s.s; axis, centrum; individual, person, creature; system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo. a.s.sociated Words: physiology, anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment, manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.
body servant. valet, squire.
body s.n.a.t.c.her. resurrectionist, ghoul.
bodyguard, n. lifeguard, _garde du corps_, retinue.
bog, n. quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, mora.s.s, slough.
boggle, v. hesitate, stickle, falter; bungle.
bogus, a. (Colloq.) spurious, counterfeit, fict.i.tious, sham, fraudulent, forged, mock, false, supposit.i.tious.
bogy, n. bugaboo, bugbear, bogle, specter.
boil, n. furuncle. a.s.sociated Word: furuncular.
boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling.
boil away. evaporate.
boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.
boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.
boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude.
bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged. Antonyms: modest, bashful, diffident, coy, shy, timid, retiring.
bold-faced, a. impudent, brazen-faced, insolent.
boldness, n. temerity, impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence, nerve.
boll, n. pod, pericarp.
bolster, v. prop up, support, maintain.--n. cus.h.i.+on, pad, support.
bolt, v. sift; leave suddenly; gulp.
bomb, n. sh.e.l.l.
bombast, n. magniloquence, fustian, bombastry, altiloquence, grandiloquence.
bombastic, a. magniloquent, grandiose, high-sounding, turgid, inflated, grandiloquent.
bona fide. in good faith, real, actual, really, actually.
bond, n. band, tie, vinculum, copula; pl. shackles, manacles, fetters, constraint; pl. imprisonment, captivity, bondage, restraint; obligation.
bond, a. captive, enslaved.
bondage, n. servitude, slavery, captivity, bond service, thralldom, durance.
bondsman, n. bondman, slave, villain, serf; surety.
bone, n. (little) ossicle, osselet.
bone, n. a.s.sociated Words: osteology, osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ossifragous, skeleton.
bone formation. ostosis, ossification, ectostosis, osteogeny.
boneless, a. exosseous.
bonelike, a. osseous, ossified, bony.
boneset, n. thoroughwort, Indian sage, feverwort.
bonmot, n. repartee.
bonnet, n. headdress, chapeau.
bonny, a. comely, pretty, merry, blithe, sportive, cheerful, buxom, chubby, plump.
bonus, n. premium; honorarium.
b.o.o.by, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, numskull, coot, ninny, dullard, witling.
boodle, n. (Slang) swag.
boohoo, v. (Slang) bawl, squawl.
book, n. volume; tome (ponderous); manual; publication; biograph; monograph; polygraph; anthology. a.s.sociated Words: bibliography, bibliolater, bibliomania, bibliophobia, format, facture, biblioclast, bibliognost, stichometry, cahier, imprimatur, _ex libris_, edition, collation, Elzevir, bibliophilism, library, collaboration.
booked, a. registered; (Colloq.) on the way, destined.
