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n.
The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
v. t.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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.
n.
A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
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That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
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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.
v. t.
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
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To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
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The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
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Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
v. i.
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
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A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
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That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
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The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
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A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
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Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
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Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
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Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
v. i.
To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
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