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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Drove :: Drove (n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body..
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Epenthetic :: Epenthetic (a.) Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound..
Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..
Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced..
Gardant :: Gardant (a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast..
Ftiction :: Ftiction (n.) The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action..
Mameluke :: Mameluke (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811..
Exhumation :: Exhumation (n.) The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body..
Epenthesis :: Epenthesis (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in nimble from AS. n/mol..
Bodied :: Bodied (a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied..
Chit :: Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart..
Trajectory :: Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air..
Frostbite :: Frostbite (n.) The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose..
Entropy :: Entropy (n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic f
Ephor :: Ephor (n.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.
Luz :: Luz (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.
Mesosternum :: Mesosternum (n.) The middle portion, or body, of the sternum..
Water Nymph :: Water nymph () A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides..
Community :: Community (n.) A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests..
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