Body

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. {Bodies}. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to
     OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. {Bodice}.]
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     1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether
        living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital
        principle; the physical person.


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              Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3
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              For of the soul the body form doth take.
              For soul is form, and doth the body make. --Spenser.
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     2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as
        distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central,
        or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
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              Who set the body and the limbs
              Of this great sport together?         --Shak.
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              The van of the king's army was led by the general; .
              . . in the body was the king and the prince.
                                                    --Clarendon.
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              Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.
                                                    --Addison.
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     3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as
        opposed to the shadow.
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              Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
              is of Christ.                         --Col. ii. 17.
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     4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as,
        anybody, nobody.
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              A dry, shrewd kind of a body.         --W. Irving.
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     5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as
        united by some common tie, or as organized for some
        purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation;
        as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
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              A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
                                                    --Prescott.
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     6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a
        general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of
        laws or of divinity.
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     7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from
        others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a["e]riform
        body. "A body of cold air." --Huxley.
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              By collision of two bodies, grind
              The air attrite to fire.              --Milton.
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     8. Amount; quantity; extent.
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     9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished
        from the parts covering the limbs.
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     10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is
         placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
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     11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank
         (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on
         an agate body.
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     12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness;
         any solid figure.
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     13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this
         color has body; wine of a good body.
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     Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being
           ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with
           oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same
           color.
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     14. (A["e]ronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a
         flying machine, to which are attached the planes or
         a["e]rocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and
         propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called
         {fuselage}.
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     {After body} (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat.
        
  
     {Body cavity} (Anat.), the space between the walls of the
        body and the inclosed viscera; the c[ae]lum; -- in
        mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and
        abdominal cavities.
  
     {Body of a church}, the nave.
  
     {Body cloth}; pl.
  
     {Body cloths}, a cloth or blanket for covering horses.
  
     {Body clothes}. (pl.)
  
     1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.
  
     2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison.
  
     {Body coat}, a gentleman's dress coat.
  
     {Body color} (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency,
        thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.
  
     {Body of a law} (Law), the main and operative part.
  
     {Body louse} (Zool.), a species of louse ({Pediculus
        vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and
        clothes. See {Grayback}.
  
     {Body plan} (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the
        conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her
        length.
  
     {Body politic}, the collective body of a nation or state as
        politically organized, or as exercising political
        functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton.
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              As to the persons who compose the body politic or
              associate themselves, they take collectively the
              name of "people", or "nation".        --Bouvier.
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     {Body servant}, a valet.
  
     {The bodies seven} (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the
        planets. [Obs.]
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              Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars
              yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe,
              Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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     {Body snatcher}, one who secretly removes without right or
        authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a
        resurrectionist.
  
     {Body snatching} (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead
        body from the grave; usually for the purpose of
        dissection.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodied} (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Bodying}.]
     To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite
     shape; to embody.
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     {To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally.
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              Imagination bodies forth
              The forms of things unknown.          --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  body
       n 1: the entire physical structure of an organism (especially an
            animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body
            were on fire" [syn: {organic structure}, {physical
            structure}]
       2: body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the
          lake" [syn: {dead body}]
       3: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
          occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body
          filed out of the auditorium"
       4: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
          their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: {torso}, {trunk}]
       5: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
          distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
       6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
          of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
       7: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
          was badly rusted"
       8: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
          "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to
          bake" [syn: {consistency}, {consistence}]
       9: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
          message was short"
       v : invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: {personify}]
       [also: {bodied}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  424 Moby Thesaurus words for "body":
     Adamite, Bund, Festschrift, Rochdale cooperative, affiliation,
     age group, aggregate, alliance, amount, amplitude, an existence,
     ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, area, array, ascender, ashes,
     ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, axis, back, band, basis,
     bastard type, batch, battalion, beard, being, belly, best part,
     better part, bevel, bevy, bigness, black letter, bloc, block,
     bodily size, body-build, bones, branch, breadth, brigade, budget,
     build, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden, cabal, cadaver, cake, caliber,
     cap, capital, carcass, carrion, case, cast, caste, cat, chap,
     character, chrestomathy, church, clan, class, clay, clique, clod,
     clump, cluster, coalition, coarseness, cohort, collectanea,
     collection, college, colony, combination, combine, committee,
     common market, commonwealth, commune, communion, community,
     company, compilation, complement, concrete, concreteness,
     concretion, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate,
     conglomeration, congress, consistency, consumer cooperative,
     contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, core, corporealize,
     corporify, corps, corpse, corpulence, corpus, corpus delicti,
     coterie, council, counter, coverage, covey, creature, credit union,
     crew, critter, crowbait, crowd, crux, customer, customs union,
     data, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, denomination,
     density, depth, descender, detachment, detail, diameter, dimension,
     dimensions, distance through, division, dry bones, duck,
     durability, dust, earth, earthling, economic class,
     economic community, em, embalmed corpse, embody, en,
     endogamous group, entelechy, entity, essence, essentials, expanse,
     expansion, extended family, extension, extent, face, faction,
     family, fat-faced type, fatness, federation, feet, fellow,
     fellowship, figure, firmness, fleet, flesh, florilegium, font,
     food for worms, form, frame, fraternity, free trade area, fullness,
     fund, fundamental, fuselage, gang, gauge, generality, gens, girth,
     gist, gravamen, greatness, groove, groundling, group, grouping,
     groupment, guy, hand, head, heart, height, holdings, homo, hulk,
     hull, human, human being, in-group, incarnate, incorporate,
     individual, italic, joker, junta, kinship group, knot, largeness,
     late lamented, league, length, letter, library, life, ligature,
     living soul, logotype, lot, lower case, lump, machine, magnitude,
     main body, major part, majority, majuscule, man, mass, masses,
     material body, materiality, materialize, measure, measurement,
     meat, menagerie, minuscule, mob, moiety, monad, mortal,
     mortal remains, most, movement, mummification, mummy, museum, nick,
     node, nose, nuclear family, number, object, offshoot, one, order,
     organic remains, organism, organization, out-group, outfit, pack,
     palpability, parcel, partnership, party, peer group, person,
     persona, personage, personality, personify, persuasion, phalanx,
     phratria, phratry, phyle, physical body, physique, pi, pica, pith,
     platoon, plurality, point, political machine, ponderability, posse,
     print, proportion, proportions, purport, quantity, quantum, radius,
     range, raw data, reach, reembody, regiment, reincarnate, relics,
     religious order, reliquiae, remains, richness, ring, roman, salon,
     sans serif, scale, schism, school, scope, script, sect, sectarism,
     segment, sense, set, settlement, shank, shape, shoulder, single,
     size, skeleton, small cap, small capital, social class, society,
     solid, solid body, solidity, soma, somebody, someone, something,
     soul, soundness, spread, squad, stability, stable, stamp, staple,
     steadiness, stem, stiff, stock, stoutness, strength, string,
     sturdiness, subcaste, substance, substantiality, substantialize,
     substantialness, substantiate, substantify, sum, tangibility, team,
     tellurian, tenement of clay, terran, the dead, the deceased,
     the defunct, the departed, the loved one, the third dimension,
     thickness, thing, thrust, torso, total, totem, toughness,
     transmigrate, treasure, tribe, troop, troupe, trunk, type,
     type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders,
     typefoundry, union, unit, upper case, upshot, variety, version,
     viscosity, volume, whole, width, wing, worldling, zoo
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BODY. A person. 
       2. In practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the 
  plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to bring 
  in the body and this must be done either by committing the defendant or 
  entering special bail. See Dead Body. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  BODY-:SNATCHER:, n.  A robber of grave-worms.  One who supplies the
  young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied
  the undertaker.  The hyena.
  
      "One night," a doctor said, "last fall,
      I and my comrades, four in all,
          When visiting a graveyard stood
      Within the shadow of a wall.
  
      "While waiting for the moon to sink
      We saw a wild hyena slink
          About a new-made grave, and then
      Begin to excavate its brink!
  
      "Shocked by the horrid act, we made
      A sally from our ambuscade,
          And, falling on the unholy beast,
      Dispatched him with a pick and spade."
                                                        Bettel K. Jhones