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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Feature :: Feature (n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance..
Cousinry :: Cousinry (n.) A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
Probe :: Probe (v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe..
Leucophlegmatic :: Leucophlegmatic (a.) Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin..
Excrement :: Excrement (n.) Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure..
Scyllarian :: Scyllarian (n.) One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively..
Cercaria :: Cercaria (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage..
Iatromathematician :: Iatromathematician (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists..
Incarnate :: Incarnate (a.) Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body..
Military :: Military (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Continent :: Continent (a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America..
Posture :: Posture (n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude..
Atmosphere :: Atmosphere (n.) The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars..
Inhume :: Inhume (v. t.) To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter..
Escort :: Escort (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea..
Sally :: Sally (v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
Incorporated :: Incorporated (a.) United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
Keraunograph :: Keraunograph (n.) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
Hypotricha :: Hypotricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.
Hypophysis :: Hypophysis (n.) See Pituitary body, under Pituitary..
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