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Bob :: Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything..

Butterbird :: Butterbird (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

Ypres Lace :: Ypres lace () Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace..

Bobbed :: Bobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Bo.

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

Bob :: Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head..

Bobsled :: Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleig.

Cabob :: Cabob (n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

Pirn :: Pirn (n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod..

Bob :: Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3..

Bob :: Bob (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.

Colin :: Colin (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

Bob :: Bob (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait..

Ricebird :: Ricebird (n.) The bobolink.

Suboccipital :: Subobtuse (a.) Partially obtuse.

Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

Bobwhite :: Bobwhite (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note..

Bob :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..

Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..

Bob-cherry :: Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth..

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