Definition of body

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Body (n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body..

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Spheromere :: Spheromere (n.) Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.
Gyre :: Gyre (n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit..
Swarm :: Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..
Bodiless :: Bodiless (a.) Having no body.
Active :: Active (a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal..
Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..
Dehydration :: Dehydration (n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed..
Polarity :: Polarity (n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc..
Idiothermic :: Idiothermic (a.) Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself..
Prank :: Prank (v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink..
Absorb :: Absorb (v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
Vitiligo :: Vitiligo (n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body..
Viscus :: Viscus (n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen..
Momentum :: Momentum (n.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus..
Bos :: Bos (n.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck..
Livery :: Livery (n.) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London..
Zouave :: Zouave (n.) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65..
Pleximeter :: Pleximeter (n.) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion..
Right :: Right (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals..
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