Definition of body

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Body (n.) 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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Belief :: Belief (n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed..
Syndicate :: Syndic (n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee..
Heat :: Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc..
Somatopleure :: Somatopleure (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure..
Advance :: Advance (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Adjunct :: Adjunct (n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind..
Lock Step :: Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him..
Lyrie :: Lyrie (n.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead..
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three..
Throng :: Throng (n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
Baronage :: Baronage (n.) The whole body of barons or peers.
Pinion :: Pinion (v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body..
Poultice :: Poultice (n.) A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm..
Chiliarchy :: Chiliarchy (n.) A body consisting of a thousand men.
Nature :: Nature (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence..
Incorporealism :: Incorporealism (n.) Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
Pleurothotonus :: Pleurothotonus (n.) A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally..
Embodiment :: Embodiment (n.) That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety..
Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..
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