bodyguard (bodigard)

One who protects or defends the person; a life-guard; collectively, the guard charged with the protection of some person, as a prince or an officer; hence, retinue; attendance; following. It might po ibly be convenient that, when the Parliament a embled, the King should repair to Westminster with a body -guard. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., ix. body-hoop (bod'i-höp), n. A band securing the arris pieces of a built mast. body-horse (bod'i-hors), n. A shaft-horse. [Prov. Eng.]