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Bodin, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: bodine, -yn, -yne, boddin, -ine, -ing; boidin, boiddin, -ine. [ME. bodin, -yn, boden, OE. boden p.p. of béodan Bede v. The orig. sense was apparently ‘summoned’ (to appear in arms); the change in use may have been influenced by association with Boun.]

1. Furnished with arms; equipped for fighting.Used predicatively, freq. with specification of weapons and armour. Also wele bodin, licht, or lichtly bodin. 1375 Barb. vii. 103.
I trow he suld be hard to sla, And he war bodyn all evynly c1420 Wynt. ix. 3137.
Gud yomen for archery Rycht wele bodyn, and honestly 1429 Acts II. 18/2.
At the yeman of lawer degre ande burges of xx lib. be bodyn with souer hate & doublat 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 8.
At the waichman be sufficiently boddin with harnis and wappynnys 1456 Acts II. 45/2.
At ilk man that his gudis extendis to xx^ti merkis be bodyn … with ane iak [etc.] 1463 Lennox Mun. 76.
For the quhilk … , I proffir to hald a hundir speris and a hundre bowis dewly bodlin for a ȝere 1491 Acts II. 326/2.
That euere man be furnist & bodin in his body with quhite harnes, brekantynes, or gude iakkis, with splentis & gluffis 1513 Doug. ix. iv. 20.
Ane hall legioun about the wallis large Stude wachyng, bodyn with bow, speir, and targe Ib. vii. xi. 126.
For thai wald be lyght bodyn ay to ryn 1533 Boece i. vi. 45.
Certane power lichtlie bodyn … suld persewe the flearis 1535 Stewart 39996.
Ane cumpany thair he befoir him fand Weill boidin war with bow, buklar and brand 1566 Reg. Morton I. 16.
With ȝoure houshaldis and substanciouse freindis bodin in weirlik maner 1567 Ib. 18.
A number of men of were … boddin in armour 1570 Misc. Spald. C. II. 277.
Sufficientlie bodin tharto in armour wapinnis and honest abulyementis 1596 Highland P. I. 154.
John Campbell came under … cloude of nicht bodin with ane lang hagbut 1615 Crim. Trials III. 275.
All bodin with hagbutis, muscatis, poulder, leid [etc.] 1642 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 38.
The said defendar being bodding with waponis ambeset the complenars way 1664 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 112.
Two of his men servands … boddine with staffes and uther invasive weapones

b. In the phrases bodin in fere of were (see Fere n.) or for were.(1) 1504 Breadalbane Doc. (Reg. H.) No. 32.
All and sindry oure … subditis being betuix sexty and sextene bodin in fer of wer c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 36.
Bostaris, braggaris, and barganeris, … All bodin in feir of weir 1521 Fife Sheriff Ct. 278.
To the nowmer of lxxx of personis bodine in feire of weire 1547 Stirling B. Rec. I. 49.
That thai … wele bodin in feir of weir, … addres thaim to be at Fawlay Muir 1569 Reg. Privy C. II. 12.
For the … furnissing of fourtie men bodin in feir of war with lang wapynnis 1584–5 Elgin Rec. I. 176.
Bodin in feir of weir, with swordis, pistollis, jackis, knapscallis and utheris weirlyk wapins invasiue 1613 Crim. Trials III. 245.
All bodin in feir of weir, with bowis, darloches [etc.] 1637 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 127.
[They] boddin in feare of warre, come in a verie vncomelie and vnseemelie maner [etc.] 1652 Ellon Presb. 431.
Boddin in feire of weir(2) 1513 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 143.
That all nychtbouris … pas in thair best aray bodin for weir till our … Souerane Lordis army 1514 Irvine Mun. I. 34.
That thai … be wele abulȝeit and bodin for were on thar best wise 1524 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 219.
[The council] ordanis thame to be reddy boddin for weir at all ty mes quhane neid is

c. In attributive use. Also licht-, wele-bodin. c1420 Wynt. viii. 6843.
Swa mony Off welle bodyn Frawns men 1522 Treas. Acc. V. 200.
All the bodin men within thare boundis 1531 Bell. Boece II. 190.
The first [battall] wes of licht bodin men, archearis, castaris of dartis and slongis Ib. 442.
David Grahame come, with five hundreth bodin men

2. Provided, furnished, prepared. c1420 Wynt. vii. 2697.
The Byschapys, and the gret Prelatis … He bad thaine cum til his presens, Syn thai war better bodyn to pay a1568 Bann. MS. 138 a/73.
Tak thair for my pairte of the feist; It is weill knawin I am weill bodin 1578 Waus Corr. I. 190.
Ye knaw I haif lettlie delyuerit sum silvir to your L., quhairffoir I am nocht veill boddin at this present c1600 Montg. Suppl. 200/48.
Bott I sell stand vpoun my gaird, Ay bodin as I wald be serwitt 1596 Highland P. I. 186.
Glenurchye promisit to furnish siller becaus he was better bodin a1598 Fergusson's Prov. 49.
He is weill bodden ther ben that neidis nather borrow nor lend

3. Summoned, requested. 1550 Corr. M. Lorraine 321.
I sould be rady as I war bodyn to cum

4. Offered; proffered. a1598 Ferg. Prov. 20.
Bodin geir stinkes Ib. (1785) 13.
He that lippens to boden plows, his land will he ley