bodragt, bodraget

[Also written bordrag (and bordraging ), simulating E. border; appar. a corruption of some Ir. word; cf. Ir. buaidh readh, disturbance, buadre, tumult.] An incursion; a raid. No wayling there nor wretchedne e is heard, No nightly bodrags , nor no hue and cries. Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 315, [In some editions printed bordrags.] bod-worm (bod'werm), n. Same as boll - worm. body (bod'i), n.; pl. bodies (-iz). [ car, etc., which contains the load. 5. The main portion; the bulk of anything; the larger part; the majority: as, the body of the people are opposed to the measure.-6. The person; an individual as recognized by law: as, body execution; held in body and goods. [Chiefly legal.]-7. A person; a human being: now generally combined with any, every, some, or no: as, somebody, nobody. There cannot a poor body buy a sack of coals, but it must come through their hands. Latimer , 2d Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1550. A body would think so, at these years. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. Gin a body meet a body , Comin' thro' the rye. Burns, Song. But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges an' schools. Burns , The Twa Dogs. Irving. A dry, shrewd kind of a body . 8. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually a ociated for a common purpose, joined in a certain cause, or united by some common tie or occupation; an incorporated or other aggregate: as, a legislative body; the body of the clergy; a body corporate. So please you, my lord, it is a body of horse - and there is a still larger body of foot behind it. Barham, In golds by Legends, I. 86. The trading body may be a single individual in one case; it may be the whole inhabitants of a continent in another; it may be the individuals of a trade diffused through a country in a third. Jevons , Pol. Econ., p. 96. A material thing; anything having inertia. See matter .-10. In geom ., any solid having the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickne .-11. A united ma ; a number of things or particulars taken together; a general collection; a code; a system: as, a body of laws. I have, with much pains and reading, collected out of phy and divinity. ancient authors this short summary of a body of philoso Swift , Tale of a Tub, ii. He was furnished with every requisite for making an extensive body of natural history. Goldsmith, Pref. to Brookes's Nat. Hist. The mind unequal to a complete analysis of the motives which carry it on to a particular conclusion only as a body , and not in its constituent parts. and determined by a body of proof, which it recognizes is swayed J. H. Newman , Gram. of A ent, p. 281. 12. A certain consistency or density; substance; strength, as opposed to thinne , weakne , transparency, or flimsine : as, wine, раper, etc., of good body. As applied to paints, body denotes opacity or density, as opposed to transparency. It was a fragrant Port, with plenty of body and a large proportion of soul. T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, xiii. 13. In music, the resonance of a tone, whether instrumental or vocal. Adipose body, astral body. See the adjectives. Bodies of Arantius. See corpora Arantii, under corpus. - Body center-plate, a metal plate on the body-bolster of a car. It rests upon a similar plate on the center of a truck. The center-bolt or king-bolt pa es through these plates. - Body corporate. See body politic. -Body hand-rail, See hand - rail, Body of a column, the part between the base and the capital; the shaft. - Body of a gun, that part of the gun which is situated behind the trunnions. - Body of a place, in fort.: (a) The works next to and surrounding a town, in the form of a polygon, regular or irregular. (5) The space inclosed within the interior works of a fortification. Body of the fornix. See fornix. - Body politic, the government: used in contradistinction to body corporate, an a ociation of persons legally incorporated for the promotion of some specific object. A body politic and cor porate is a municipality governed according to a legislative act of incorporation, and thus po e ing corporate political powers. body of people living under an organized political We may fairly conclude that the body politic cannot sub sist, any more than the animal body, without a head. J. Adams , Works, IV. 379. Cavernous bodies, centrobaric body, ciliary body. See the adjectives. Descent of bodies. See descent. Deviation of a falling body. See deviation. - Diplomatic body. See diplomatic. Elementary body. See element. Fifth body, the ether or fifth element, the substance of the heavenly bodies, according to the Aristo tel i ans. Fixed bodies, geniculate bodies, heterogeneous body, main body, etc. See the adjectives.bodyer the church, the aggregate of believers stic Mathematical body, a sense Mystical stituting the bride of Christ. - Okenian body, olivary body. See the adjectives. - Regular body, a polyhedron in which the relations of any one face, edge, or summit are the same as those of any other. Pythagoras enumerated the five regular bodies (the sphere is not included among them): the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dode cahedron, and the icosahedron. These are often called the five bodies simply; also the cosmical bodies, because Timæus of Locri held that the tetrahedron is the shape of fire, the octahedron of air, the icosahedron of water, the cube of earth, and the dodecahedron of God; also the Platonic bodies, because mentioned by Plato in his dialogue "Timæus.' Four other regular bodies which envelop the center more than once were discovered by Kepler and by Poinsot. These are named by Cayley the great icosahedron, the great dodecahedron, the great stellated dodecahedron, and the small stellated dodecahedron. For illustrations of all these bodies, see solid. - Irregular bodies, such as are not bounded by equal and like surfaces. The bodies seven, in alchemy, the metals corresponding to the planets. The bodies seven , eek, lo hem heer anon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe [call], Mars yren, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturn us leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper. Chaucer, Prol, to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 272. body (bod'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. bodied, ppr. bodying. [ A new exotick way of bodying , that is, formally covenanting and verbally engaging with them and to them beyond the baptism all bond and vow. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 37. 3. To represent in bodily form; exhibit in tangible form or outward reality: with forth . As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak . , M. N. D., v. 1. Bodied forth the tourney high, Held for the hand of Emily! Scott , Rokeby, vi. 26. body-bagt (bod'i-bag), n. A bag to sleep in. body-bolster (bod'i-bolster), n. A cro -beam of wood, iron, or the two in combination, on the under side of a railroad-car, which supports it and transmits its weight to the truck. The upper end of the king-bolt, which forms the pivot for the truck, is fastened to a body-bolster.