<B>bodhisattva, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Buddhism.) a person who by exemplary conduct, spiritual wisdom, and compassion is considered likely to become, in a future incarnation, a Buddha, or savior of mankind. </DL>
<A NAME="bodhitree">
<B>bodhi tree,</B> =bo tree.</DL>
<A NAME="bodice">
<B>bodice, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the close-fitting upper part of a dress. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wide girdle worn over a dress and laced up the front. <BR> <I>Ex. European peasant women used to wear bodices.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a corset; stays. </DL>
<A NAME="bodied">
<B>-bodied,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) having a ______ body. <BR> <I>Ex. Heavy-bodied = having a heavy body.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bodiless">
<B>bodiless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without a body. <BR> <I>Ex. Spirits are bodiless.</I> (SYN) incorporeal, disembodied. </DL>
<A NAME="bodily">
<B>bodily, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of the body; in the body; physical. <BR> <I>Ex. bodily pain. Athletes have bodily strength.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having a body or bodies; corporeal; material. <BR> <I>Ex. a bodily substance.</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>in person; in the flesh. <BR> <I>Ex. The man we thought dead walked bodily into the room.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>as a whole; all together; entirely. <BR> <I>Ex. The audience rose bodily to cheer the hero.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="boding">
<B>boding, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a premonition; omen; portent. <BR> <I>Ex. a boding of disaster.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> portending; ominous. <BR> <I>Ex. listening to the boding cry of the tree toad (Washington Irving).</I> adv. <B>bodingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="bodkin">
<B>bodkin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, blunt needle, used for drawing tape or cord through a hem, loops, etc. <DD><B> 2. </B>a long hairpin. <DD><B> 3. </B>a pointed tool for making holes in cloth, etc. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Printing.) a tool for picking out letters in correcting type which has been set. <DD><B> 5. </B>a small dagger or other short, pointed weapon; stiletto. </DL>
<A NAME="bodleian">
<B>Bodleian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the Oxford University Library. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with this library. </DL>
<A NAME="bodock">
<B>bodock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the Osage orange. </DL>
<A NAME="bodoni">
<B>Bodoni, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a modern style of type based on the designs of the celebrated Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). </DL>
<A NAME="bodonibook">
<B>Bodoni Book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lightweight style of printing type with reduced contrast of thick and thin lines that reflects the letter design of Bodoni type. </DL>
<A NAME="body">
<B>body, </B>noun, pl. <B>bodies,</B> verb, <B>bodied,</B> <B>bodying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the whole material or physical part of a person, animal, or plant. <BR> <I>Ex. This boy has a strong, healthy body.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the main part of an animal from which other parts, such as the head, limbs, or tail, stick out. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog rolled over and scratched its body on the grass.</I> (SYN) torso. <DD><B> 3. </B>the main part of anything, such as the nave of a church, the hull of a ship, or the part of a vehicle that holds the passengers or the load. <DD><B> 4. </B>the fuselage of an aircraft. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the main part of a speech or document, minus the introduction, appendix, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. the body of a will.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the part of a news story following and enlarging on the lead. <DD><B> 6. </B>a group of persons or things considered together. <BR> <I>Ex. a body of laws, a body of soldiers. A large body of children sang in the school program. Congress is the lawmaking body of our government.</I> (SYN) aggregate, corpus. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Informal or Dialect.) a person. <BR> <I>Ex. She is a good-natured body.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a dead person or animal; corpse. <DD><B> 9. </B>a portion of matter; mass. <BR> <I>Ex. A lake is a body of water. The moon, the sun, and the stars are heavenly bodies.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>substantial quality; substance; matter; density. <BR> <I>Ex. wine or cloth of good body. Thick soup has more body than thin soup.</I> (SYN) bulk. <DD><B> 11. </B>that part of a garment which covers the trunk above the waist. <DD><B> 12. </B>(Printing.) the base on which a letter or face is cut or cast; the breadth of the shank, which is the same throughout the font. <BR> <I>Ex. an 8-point face on a 9-point body.</I> <DD><B> 13. </B>(Law.) a corporation, technically regarded as a person; body corporate. <DD><B> 14. </B>(Obsolete.) a geometric figure of three dimensions; a solid. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to provide with a body; embody. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give substance or density to. <BR> <I>Ex. The most important application of these new clay compounds is ... to 'body' lubricating oils (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=body forth </B>(see idiom below). <BR><I>expr. <B>body forth,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to give a real form to. </I> <I>Ex. The committee bodied forth its findings in an official report.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be a sign of; represent; typify. <BR> <I>Ex. Both as egoist and as patriot M. de Lesseps bodies forth the age (Spectator).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in a body,</B> </I>as a unit; in a group; all together. <BR> <I>Ex. The old management was swept out of office, virtually in a body (Canadian Saturday Night).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>keep body and soul together,</B> </I>to keep barely alive. <BR> <I>Ex. The poor farmer's stock of food was barely enough to keep body and soul together through the long winter.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>over one's dead body,</B> </I>(Informal.) against one's determined opposition. <BR> <I>Ex. Harold Wilson is on record as saying that grammar schools will be abolished "over my dead body" (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bodyblow">
<B>body blow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a blow to the body, in boxing or fighting. <DD><B> 2. </B>a serious setback. </DL>
<A NAME="bodybuild">
<B>body build,</B> or <B>body-build, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> bodily structure, build, or physique. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyburden">
<B>body burden,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> radioactive or other toxic material absorbed in an individual's system. <BR> <I>Ex. Lead ... has always been one of the "body burdens" that all of us carry around with us, because it settles in our bones (Edith Iglauer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bodycavity">
<B>body cavity,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the central cavity of the body, as distinguished from special cavities or those of particular organs. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycell">
<B>body cell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a somatic cell. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycentered">
<B>body-centered, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Crystallography.) having cubic crystals with atoms at each corner and in the center of the cube of a crystalline structure. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycheck">
<B>body check,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a defensive play, especially in ice hockey, in which a player attempts to throw the carrier of the puck off stride by bumping him with his body. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycheck">
<B>body-check, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to check or block with the body, especially in ice hockey. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyclock">
<B>body clock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an internal mechanism which is thought to regulate the rhythm or cycle of the body's normal activities. Swift transition through several time zones during jet flight disturbs the body clock. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycolor">
<B>body color,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pigment possessing body or a high degree of consistency, substance, and covering power. <DD><B> 2. </B>a color rendered opaque by an admixture of white pigment. </DL>
<A NAME="bodycorporate">
<B>body corporate,</B> =corporation.</DL>
<A NAME="bodycount">
<B>body count,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a daily count of the dead bodies on the battlefield as the basis of estimating enemy casualties. <DD><B> 2. </B>any count or tally of individuals. </DL>
<A NAME="bodydouble">
<B>body double,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who stands in for a motion-picture actor in photographic shots that focus on a part of the body. <BR> <I>Ex. body doubles ... women whose body parts are being passed off as movie-star flesh (New York Newsday).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bodyenglish">
<B>body English,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) motions of the body reflecting the desire of a spectator or player to cause a ball, contestant, or the like, to move in a certain way. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyguard">
<B>bodyguard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man or men who guard a person. <BR> <I>Ex. A bodyguard accompanies the President when he travels.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a retinue; escort. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyjewel">
<B>body jewel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ornament worn on the body instead of on clothing. </DL>
<A NAME="bodylanguage">
<B>body language,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the unconscious gestures of the body as a form of communication. <BR> <I>Ex. Body language, it's now believed, carries as much information as spoken or written speech--perhaps more (Barbara Ford).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bodyless">
<B>bodyless, </B>adjective. =bodiless.</DL>
<A NAME="bodylinebowling">
<B>bodyline bowling,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Cricket.) fast bowling directed persistently to the batsman's leg side. </DL>
<A NAME="bodylouse">
<B>body louse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of louse that infests the bodies and clothing of humans and lays its eggs in folds and seams of clothing. </DL>
<A NAME="bodypaint">
<B>body paint,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a paint or cosmetic for decorating parts of the body with designs or figures. </DL>
<A NAME="bodypolitic">
<B>body politic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a people forming a political group with an organized government. </DL>
<A NAME="bodypress">
<B>body press,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wrestling hold in which the weight of the body is used to pin an opponent on his back. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyshirt">
<B>body shirt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tight-fitting shirt or blouse. </DL>
<A NAME="bodyslam">
<B>body slam,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wrestling throw in which the opponent is lifted and then flung down. </DL>
<A NAME="bodysnatcher">
<B>body snatcher,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who steals corpses from graves, especially for the purpose of dissection. (SYN) ghoul. </DL>
<A NAME="bodystocking">
<B>body stocking,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lightweight, tight-fitting, one-piece undergarment for women that covers most of the body, similar to a leotard. </DL>
<A NAME="bodysuit">
<B>bodysuit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tight-fitting, one-piece garment covering the trunk of the body. </DL>
<A NAME="bodysurf">
<B>body-surf, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to ride on the crest of a wave without a surfboard. </DL>
