Bobtail

A short, or docked tail; as, a bobtail nag. -A vulgarism, used in speaking contemptuously of the rabble; as, "tag, rag, and bobtail." Bob'tailed, a . Having the tail docked, or cut short. "There was a bobtailed cur cried in a gazette." - L'Estrange. Bob'town, in Ma achusetts , a thriving village of Pitts- field township, Berks hire co., 30 m. W.N.W. of North- ampton. Bob-white, n. ( Zool . ) See PERDISIDE. Bob'-wig, Bob'tail-wig, n. A short wig. "A young fellow... with a bob - wig ... stopt short at the coach, to ask us how far the judges were behind." - Spec tater . Boca, ( bo'ka . ) [Sp., mouth.] A term often applied to the mouths of rivers, ., as Boca (or Bocca ) Tigris. Bo'ca Chi'ca, in New Granada , the channel leading up to the port of Carthagena. Bo'ca del To'ro, ("mouth of the bull,") in Costa Rica, Central America; Lat. 9° 20' N., Lon. 826 W. Bo'ca de Na'vios, ("pa age for ships,") in S. Amer. ica, the principal mouth of the Orinoco River. Bo'ca Grande, ("chief entrance,") a bay of Central America, in Costa Rica, at the mouth of the Zucar River, on the Caribbean Sea. Bocai'na, in Brazil, a mountain-chain of the prov. of Rio de Janeiro, being a spur of the Organ Mountains. to oscillate loosely. "They comb, and then they order ev'ry hair, A birthday jewel bobbing at their ear." - Dryden. -To angle or fish for eels, ., as with a bob for bait. "He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels." - Saze.