7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an
aëriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley.
By collision of two bodies, grind
The air attrite to fire.
Milton.
8. Amount; quantity; extent.
9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
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.
12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
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.
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 cælum; — 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 (Zoöl.), a species of louse 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.
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.]
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe Mars yren 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.
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.
To body forth,
to give from or shape to mentally.
Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown.
Shak.
Bodyguard
(Bod"y*guard`) n.