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Body   /bˈɑdi/   Listen
Body

noun
(pl. bodies)
1.
The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).  Synonyms: organic structure, physical structure.
2.
A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity.  "The student body" , "Administrative body"
3.
A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person.  Synonym: dead body.
4.
An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects.
5.
The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.  Synonyms: torso, trunk.
6.
A collection of particulars considered as a system.  "A body of doctrine" , "A body of precedents"
7.
The property of holding together and retaining its shape.  Synonyms: consistence, consistency, eubstance.  "When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
8.
The central message of a communication.
9.
The main mass of a thing.
10.
A resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin).  Synonym: soundbox.
11.
The external structure of a vehicle.
verb
(past & past part. bodied; pres. part. bodying)
1.
Invest with or as with a body; give body to.  Synonym: personify.



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... from the State Department will be subservient of the public interests"; in the House resolutions were offered describing his public utterances as "derogatory to his position as a high public functionary of the Confederate Government, a reflection on the motives of Congress as a deliberative body, and an insult ...
— The Day of the Confederacy - A Chronicle of the Embattled South, Volume 30 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... the great tower, without any interior communication, and formed a long square, flanked by two turrets. In one of these turrets there was a narrow staircase that led from the first floor to a gallery on the platform; in the other were small rooms, answering to each story of the tower. The body of the building was four stories high. The first consisted of an antechamber, a dining-room, and a small room in the turret, where there was a library containing from twelve to fifteen hundred volumes. The second story was divided nearly in the same manner. The largest ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan

... to relax, for the half-dozen streams were setting steadily out of the main street, while in several spots where dragoons had sat wedged in singly two had drifted together. Then there were threes and fours, and soon after a little body of about twenty had coalesced, stood in something like order, and were able to make a stand. Right away toward Cheapside there was now visible beneath a faint cloud of smoke, which looked ruddy in the torch- and lamplight, a glittering line above the heads of the still dense crowd, and ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... pepper, grated nutmeg, and minced parsley. Add half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of blanched and pounded almonds, three whole eggs, and the yolks of two more. Fill the skin, preserving the natural shape of the fish, and sew up. Simmer in court bouillon until done, drain, and stick the body of the fish full of blanched almonds shredded. Strain the liquid in which the fish was cooked, thicken with butter and flour cooked together, season with lemon-juice, pour around ...
— How to Cook Fish • Olive Green

... of grades which were being built by the province, not primarily for the roads they afforded, but for the sake of the ditches of a bold and much needed drainage-system. To this very day these yellow grades of the pioneer country along the lake lie like naked scars on Nature's body: ugly raw, as if the bowels were torn out of a beautiful bird and left to dry and rot on its plumage. Age will mellow ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove


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