Body: Definition and part of speech

Body

  1. n. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
  2. n. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
  3. n. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
  4. n. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
  5. n. A person; a human being; — frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
  6. n. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
  7. n. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
  8. n. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
  9. n. Amount; quantity; extent.
  10. n. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
  11. 1n. 1 Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
  12. 1n. 1 The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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