Definition of body

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Body (n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body..

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Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket..
Guards :: Guards (n. pl.) A body of picked troops; as, The Household Guards..
Succussive :: Succussion (n.) The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax..
Bath :: Bath (n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath..
Notable :: Notable (n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body..
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..
Body :: Body (n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person..
Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.
Ring-streaked :: Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats..
Ciliata :: Ciliata (n. pl.) One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth..
Lake :: Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area..
Between :: Between (prep.) Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
Bracer :: Bracer (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body..
Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (n.) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Interrenal :: Interrenal (a.) Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes..
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others..
On :: On (prep.) Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use..
Corselet :: Corselet (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece..
Carnation :: Carnation (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
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