Bob

[Icel. bobbi, a knot; Gael. bab, a tuft, a ta el.] Any little round thing that plays loosely at the end of a string, .; an ornament hanging from the ear; a pen dant. "The gaudy go ip when she 's set agog." In jewels drest, and at each ear a bob ." - Dryden. -The ball of a short pendulum, being the metallic weight which is attached to the lower extremity of a pendulum-rod. - Also, the weight at the end of a plumb-line. -A bait of worms, ., fastened on a hook to entice fish; "yellow bobs ." Lawson. - A short, jerking motion; as, a bob of the head. - The refrain, or repeated words at the end of a song; a stanza. (R.) as, "To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song." - L'Estrange. - A slight blow; a jog, or push; as, to give one a bob on the mouth. "I am sharply taunted, yea, sometimes with pinches, nips, and boba." Ascham. IMG:content-0678.jpg:[blocks in formation] -In Campanology, a peculiar method of ringing bells; as, a bob -major; bob - minor, . (Mining.) A miner's engine-beam. -г. а. ( ітр . BOBBED; ppr . BOBBING.) Το move with a short, jerking motion; as, "seeing a blow coming, he bobbed his head a little aside." - To beat with a quick blow; to bang. "Those bastard Britons, whom our fathers Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd and thump'd."- Shaks . -To cheat; to fraudulently obtain. "Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him, As gifts to Des demon a." Shaks. -To mock; to make sport of. talent about the end of the first week in July, from which time, or somewhat earlier, his plumage begins to lose its gay colors, and to a ume the humble hue of that of the female. About the middle of August they enter New York and Pennsylvania, on their way to the south. There, along the shores of the large rivers lined with floating fields of wild rice, they find abundant subsistence, grow fat, and their flesh becomes little inferior in flavor to that of the European ortolan; on which account the B. are shot in great numbers, and sold in the markets. Bo'brov, a town of Ru ia in Europe, govt. Voroneje, on the Bitioug, 52 m. S.E. of Voronetz; Lat. 50°5′ N., Lon. 40° 10 E. This place derives its name from the number of beavers ( bobry ) formerly found in its vicinity. Pop . about 4,000. Bobru'isk, a town of European Ru ia, govt. Minsk, on the Bobruia, where it falls into the Berezina, 90 m. S.E. of Minsk. This town effectually resisted the French in 1812.