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Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk..

Directorate :: Directorate (n.) The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly..

Rimbase :: Rimbase (n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

Clan :: Clan (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously..

Somatic :: Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo..

Pavise :: Pavise (n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it..

Diplomatical :: Diplomatical (a.) Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body..

Post :: Post (n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station..

Truss :: Truss (n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher..

Impanation :: Impanation (a.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation..

Body :: Body (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody..

Eider :: Eider (n.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species..

Cyanosed :: Cyanosed (a.) Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood..

Merchantry :: Merchantry (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country..

Disincorporate :: Disincorporate (v. t.) To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body..

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..

Epiperipheral :: Epiperipheral (a.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral..

Infarction :: Infarction (n.) The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

Ulcer :: Ulcer (n.) A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues..

Ailment :: Ailment (n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

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