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  • Macquarie Concise Thesaurus Third Edition 1985 - Head Word
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet 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]
Moby Dictionary
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


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.
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
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