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Bob [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any little round thing, that plays loosely at the end of a string, cord, or movable machine; a little ornament or pendant that hangs so as to play loosely.

2. Our common people apply the word to a knot of worms, on a string, used in fishing for eels.

3. The words repeated at the end of a stanza.

4. A blow; a shake or jog; a jeer or flout.

5. The ball of a short pendulum.

6. A mode of ringing.

7. A bob-wig.

Bob [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To play backward and forward; to play loosely against any thing.

2. To angle, or fish for eels, or to catch eels with a bob

Bob [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.

2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

7. A working beam.

8. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

10. The refrain of a song.

11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

13. A shilling.

14. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

15. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

16. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

17. To mock or delude; to cheat.

18. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

Bob [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

2. To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

Bob wig Webster's Dictionary 1913

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.

Bob-cherry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

Bob-tailed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having the hair cut short.

Bob-wig [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A short wig.

Bobac [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

Bobance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

bobans'. A boasting. [Not in use.]

Bobance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A boasting.

Bobbed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Beat of shaken; cheated; gained by fraud; deluded.

Bobbed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bobber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, bobs.

Bobbery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

Bobbin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small pin or cylindrical piece of wood, with a head, on which thread is wound for making lace. A similar instrument, bored through to receive an iron pivot, and with a border at each end, is used in spinning, to wind thread or silk on; a spool.

Bobbin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

2. A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

3. The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

4. A fine cord or narrow braid.

5. 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.

Bobbinet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.

Bobbing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Playing back and forth; striking; cheating; angling for eels.

Bobbing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bobbinwork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Work woven with bobbins.

2. Among children, a play in which a cherry is hung so as to bob against the mouth.

Bobbinwork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Work woven with bobbins.

Bobbish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hearty; in good spirits.

Bobby [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.

Bobfly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

Bobo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A Mexican fish, two feet long, in high esteem for food.

Bobolink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

Bobruisk Encyclopedia Britannica

BOBRUISK, a town of Russia, in the government of Minsk, 110 miles S.E. of that city, in 53° 15' N. lat. and 28° 52' E. long., on the right bank of the Berezina, near the confluence of the Bobruiska, on the high road from Mogileff to Brest-Litovsk. Bobruisk was an unimportant place in 1508, when the Moscovite army, sent by the Emperor Basil against the Polish king Sigismund, advanced towards it. In the 17th century there existed a castle, which was burned down in 1649. When the Minsk government was incorporated with Russia, Bobruisk was a small borough; but in 1795 it was raised to the rank of chief town of a department in the Minsk government. In the beginning of the reign of Alexander I. there was erected at Bobruisk, by the advice of General Osterman, a fort, which obtained great importance in 1812, and was made equal to the best in Europe by the Emperor Paul I. The fort proper is built on a height exactly at the confluence of the Bobruiska with the Berezina, nearly a mile from the town. On the right bank of the former river is another small fort, called Fort Frederick William, well supported by a line of defences. In 1860 the population of Bobruisk was 23,761, of whom 11,394 were Jews. It has 2 Greek churches, 17 synagogues, a military hospital, and a departmental college. The only industrial establishments are two potteries. On the river near the town there is a harbour, by which grain and salt are imported from the southern governments.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 842
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