Body

[A. S. bodig; O. Ger. bot ah; Gael. bodhaig, the body. The frame or material substance of an animal, dead or living; as contradistinguished from the spirit. "And her soul saw a glimpse of happine through the chinks of her sickne -broken body ." - Fuller. -The trunk of an animal; main stem of a tree; principal part of any matter or collective ma , in distinction from the members, branches, and connecting parts; as, the body of a speech; the body of an army; the body of a coach, . "Rivers that run up into the body of Italy." - Add is on. -A person; a human being; whence somebody and nobody . "A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body ." - Dickens. -Any collective ma ; joint power; general system; as, a body of laws. -A corporation; an organized company of individuals united for some common purpose; as, a legislative body . 'Nothing was more common, than to hear that reverend body charged with what is inconsistent." - Swift . (Geom.) A term synonymous with solid : thus we say, the five regular bodies , or five regular solids . A body has three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickne ; and it is either hard, soft, or elastic. garded as an agglomeration of material particles. According to the different forms in which matter exists, bodies may be solid , liquid , or gaseous . ( Puinting .) A thick consistency of of color; body-color. -Strength; substance; reality; governing quality; as, port-wine of a good body . -v.a. To give a body to; to produce in some form; to in- carnate; to embody; (followed by forth .) "As imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape. Shaks. Body Camp, in Virginia , a post-office of Bedford co. Bod'y-clothes, n. pl. Clothing for man or horse. (Specifically applied in the latter sense.) "I am informed that several a es are kept in body - clothes, and sweated every morning upon the heath." Add is on.