a. [ L. asomatus, Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; body. ] Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bengalese, a worshiping assembly. ] A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindus. [ Written also Brama-samaj. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; thirst + &unr_; mania. ] (Med.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to dipsomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plant lice of the family Aphididae, consisting of one type of the wooly aphids.
Syn. -- genus Eriosoma. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. gymno`s naked + sw^ma, sw`matos, the body. ] (Zool.) One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_;, &unr_;, body. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.

{ ‖, n. [ NL. hydrosoma. See Hydra, and -some body. ] (Zool.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. meta- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, body. ] (Geol.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic a. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ L., a change of body (by the soul), fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Biol.) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Musicomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. 'o`ros, -eos, mountain + sw^ma body. ] (Zool.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Perisomata [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Perisome. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Phyllo-, and -some body. ] (Zool.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Prosomata. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; before + &unr_;, &unr_;, body. ] (Zool.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Prothyalosomata [ NL., fr. Gr. prw^tos first + "y`alos glass + &unr_;, &unr_;, body.] (Biol.) The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle. [1913 Webster]

a. Such as can be ransomed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A society; a congregation, a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, the body. ] (Anat.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. B. G. Wilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. (Ethnol.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of or pertaining to Somalia or to the inhabitants of Somalia. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + ky`stis a bladder. ] (Zool.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + -logy. ] 1. The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Anthropol.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, body + te`mnein to cut. ] (Anat. & Zool.) See Somite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + pleyra` side. ] (Anat.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, the body + tre`pein to turn. ] (Physiol.) A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Theca, and Soma. ] (Zool.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. -- The`co*so"ma*tous a. [1913 Webster]