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Body
·noun Amount; quantity; extent. II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...

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body
A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America. Good may come out of evil, and ...

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body
The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet. ...

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Torpedo body
·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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body snatchers
Bum bailiffs. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
poor body!
i. e. Poor Creature. Durham. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...

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body-hoops
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

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body-plan
The draught of a proposed ship, showing the breadth and timbers; it is a section supposed to cut the...

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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...

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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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body, of a place
In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains. ...

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furling in a body
A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...

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longitude of a celestial body
An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...

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terminal velocity of any given body
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose