O, could I share without champagne Or muscadel, your frolic; The glad delirium of your joy, Your fun unapostolic; Your drunken jargon through the fields, Your bobolinkish gabble, Your fine Anacreontic glee, Your tipsy reveller's babble! Christopher Pearse Cranch, _The Bird and the Bell_ (1875). BODACH GLAY or "Grey Spectre," a house demon of the Scotch, similar to the Irish banshee. BODLEY FAMILY, an American household, father, mother, sisters, and brothers, whose interesting adventures at home and abroad are detailed by Horace E. Scudder in _The Bodley Books_ (1875-1887). BOE´MOND, the Christian king of Antioch, who tried to teach his subjects arts, law, and religion. He is of the Norman race, Roge´ro's brother, and son of Roberto Guiscar´do.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). BOEUF (_Front de_), a gigantic, ferocious follower of prince John.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). BOFFIN (_Nicodemus_), "the golden dustman," foreman of old John Harmon, dustman and miser. He was "a broad, round-shouldered, one-sided old fellow, whose face was of the rhinoceros build, with overlapping ears." A kind, shrewd man was Mr. Boffin, devoted to his wife, whom he greatly admired. Being residuary legatee of John Harmon, dustman, he came in for £100,000. Afterwards, John Harmon, the son, being discovered, Mr. Boffin surrendered the property to him, and lived with him. _Mrs. Boffin_, wife of Mr. N. Boffin, and daughter of a cat's-meatman. She was a fat, smiling, good-tempered creature, the servant of old John Harmon, dustman and miser, and very kind to the miser's son (young John Harmon). After Mr. Boffin came into his fortune she became "a high flyer at fashion," wore black velvet and sable, but retained her kindness of heart and love for her husband. She was devoted to Bella Wilfer, who ultimately became the wife of young John Harmon, _alias_ Rokesmith.--C. Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_ (1864). BO'GIO, one of the allies of Charlemagne. He promised his wife to return within six months, but was slain by Dardinello.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516). BOHEMIAN (_A_), a gipsy, from the French notion that the first gipsies came from Bohemia. _A Literary Bohemian_, an author of desultory works and irregular life. Never was there an editor with less about him of the literary Bohemian.--_Fortnightly Review_ ("Paston Letters"). _Bohemian Literature_, desultory reading. _A Bohemian Life_, an irregular, wandering, restless way of living, like that of a gipsy. BO'HEMOND, prince of Antioch, a crusader.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). BOIS'GRELIN (_The young countess de_), introduced in the ball given by king René at Aix.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).