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• Body

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• body

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• body

  a simpleton. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Torpedo body

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• body-hoops

  Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• body-plan

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• body-post

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cant-body

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• dog's-body

  Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fore-body

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• furling in a body

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• longitude of a celestial body

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• terminal velocity of any given body

  The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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