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    Body , n.; pl. Bodies . [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. √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 aëriform 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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      ☞ 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. (Aëronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, 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 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.) 
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      16. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.
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      17. 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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    Body , 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.
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