a. Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. “Able-bodied vagrant.” Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n.. [1913 Webster]

n. [ See Bode. ] An omen; a portending. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pret. of Abide. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bode; to foreshow. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be ominous. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide. ] 1. Act of waiting; delay. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And with her fled away without abode. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [ 1913 Webster ]

He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bode, v. t. ] An omen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A foreboding; an omen. [ Obs. ] “Abodements must not now affright us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A foreboding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Med., Physiol. Chem.) Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains various antibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also stimulates production of their specific antibodies by the immune system. In certain “autoimmune” diseases, the immune system of an organism may produce antibodies to parts of the organism's own structure, and can cause considerable damage and even death as a result. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. (Med., Physiol. Chem.) more narrowly, any of the immunoglobulins present in the blood serum or other body fluids of an animal, which reacts with a specific antigenic substance, whether the antibody was produced as a consequence of the stimulus provided by the antigen, or was pre-existing prior to exposure of the organism to the antigen. The soluble antibodies present in serum are complex globins (proteins) with both constant and variable regions in the polypeptide chains, the variable region being responsible for the reaction of the antibody with its specific antigen. Typically, antibodies of more than one structure may react with a given antigen, and any given antigen may stimulate production of more than one antibody. Methods have been developed to grow cells in tissue culture which produce predominantly only one specific antibody, and such antibodies thus produced (called monoclonal antibodies) are highly specific in their reactions to molecular strucures, and are used as valuable reagents in biochemical technology. [ PJC. ]

n. 1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. [ 1913 Webster ]

His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person of consideration or standing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.
Syn. -- Bodhisattva. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Bodick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding. ] [ OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo&unr_;a to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid. ] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good onset bodes good end. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To foreshow something; to augur. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bid; an offer. [ Obs. or Dial. ] Sir W. Scott [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t. ] A messenger; a herald. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Abide. ] A stop; a halting; delay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. from Bide. Abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

There that night they bode. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bid. Bid or bidden. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Portentous; ominous. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An omen; a prognostic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botch; a patch. [ Dial. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bodged ] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [ Obs. or Dial. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Budge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖, n. [ Skr. bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō); fr. bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence. ] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. (Zool.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body. ] 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as bodkin; -- a variant spelling. [ R. ] [ PJC ]

a. 1. Having no body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without material form; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality. Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. “Bodily defects.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Real; actual; put in execution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be brought to bodily act. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Corporal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9 [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. “Leapt bodily below.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag. ] 1. A dagger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a stiletto; an eyeleteer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out letters from a column or page in making corrections. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sit,
ride, or
travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Baudekin. [ Obs. ] Shirley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt. fr. bois d'arc. ] The Osage orange. [ Southwestern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. of Celtic origin: cf. Bordrage. ] A raid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Veal too immature to be suitable for food. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Bodies [ OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. √257. Cf. Bodice. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absent in body, but present in spirit. 1 Cor. v. 3 [ 1913 Webster ]

For of the soul the body form doth take.
For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dry, shrewd kind of a body. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body. “A body of cold air.” Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

By collision of two bodies, grind
The air attrite to fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Amount; quantity; extent. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Print.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. (Aëronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. --
Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the cælum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. --
Body of a church, the nave. --
Body cloth; pl.
Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. --
Body clothes. (pl.) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [ Obs. ] Addison. --
Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat. --
Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. --
Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. --
Body louse (Zool.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. --
Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. --
Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ] As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of “people”, or “nation”. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Body servant, a valet. --
The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. --
Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bodied (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying. ] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. [ 1913 Webster ]

To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally. [ 1913 Webster ] Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.
Syn. -- musclebuilder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. exercise that builds muscles through tension.
Syn. -- anaerobic exercise, musclebuilding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted; -- contrasted with a mechanic, who repairs the motor and other working components. [ PJC ]