[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

body \bod"y\, n.; pl. bodies. oe. bodi, as. bodig; akin to
   ohg. botah. root257. 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.
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   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 a"eriform
      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.
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   10. the bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is
       placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
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   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.
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   12. geom. a figure that has length, breadth, and thickness;
       any solid figure.
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   13. consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this
       color has body; wine of a good body.
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   note: 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. a"eronautics the central, longitudinal framework of a
       flying machine, to which are attached the planes or
       a"erocurves, 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 caelum; -- 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.
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            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
see also:
bodies bodice fuselage after body body cavity body of a church 
body cloth body cloths body clothes body coat body color 
body of a law body louse pediculus vestimenti grayback body plan 
body politic body servant the bodies seven body snatcher body snatching 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

body \bod"y\, v. t. imp.  p. p. bodied ?; 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
see also:
bodied bodying to body forth 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

body
     n 1: the entire physical structure of an organism especially an
          animal or human being; "he felt as if his whole body
          were on fire" syn: organic structure, physical
          structure
     2: body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the
        lake" syn: dead body
     3: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
        occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body
        filed out of the auditorium"
     4: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
        their arms and legs and bodies" syn: torso, trunk
     5: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
        distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
     6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
        of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
     7: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
        was badly rusted"
     8: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
        "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to
        bake" syn: consistency, consistence
     9: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
        message was short"
     v : invest with or as with a body; give body to syn: personify
     also: bodied
see also:
organic structure physical structure dead body torso trunk consistency 
consistence personify bodied 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

424 moby thesaurus words for "body":
   adamite, bund, festschrift, rochdale cooperative, affiliation,
   age group, aggregate, alliance, amount, amplitude, an existence,
   ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, area, array, ascender, ashes,
   ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, axis, back, band, basis,
   bastard type, batch, battalion, beard, being, belly, best part,
   better part, bevel, bevy, bigness, black letter, bloc, block,
   bodily size, body-build, bones, branch, breadth, brigade, budget,
   build, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden, cabal, cadaver, cake, caliber,
   cap, capital, carcass, carrion, case, cast, caste, cat, chap,
   character, chrestomathy, church, clan, class, clay, clique, clod,
   clump, cluster, coalition, coarseness, cohort, collectanea,
   collection, college, colony, combination, combine, committee,
   common market, commonwealth, commune, communion, community,
   company, compilation, complement, concrete, concreteness,
   concretion, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate,
   conglomeration, congress, consistency, consumer cooperative,
   contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, core, corporealize,
   corporify, corps, corpse, corpulence, corpus, corpus delicti,
   coterie, council, counter, coverage, covey, creature, credit union,
   crew, critter, crowbait, crowd, crux, customer, customs union,
   data, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, denomination,
   density, depth, descender, detachment, detail, diameter, dimension,
   dimensions, distance through, division, dry bones, duck,
   durability, dust, earth, earthling, economic class,
   economic community, em, embalmed corpse, embody, en,
   endogamous group, entelechy, entity, essence, essentials, expanse,
   expansion, extended family, extension, extent, face, faction,
   family, fat-faced type, fatness, federation, feet, fellow,
   fellowship, figure, firmness, fleet, flesh, florilegium, font,
   food for worms, form, frame, fraternity, free trade area, fullness,
   fund, fundamental, fuselage, gang, gauge, generality, gens, girth,
   gist, gravamen, greatness, groove, groundling, group, grouping,
   groupment, guy, hand, head, heart, height, holdings, homo, hulk,
   hull, human, human being, in-group, incarnate, incorporate,
   individual, italic, joker, junta, kinship group, knot, largeness,
   late lamented, league, length, letter, library, life, ligature,
   living soul, logotype, lot, lower case, lump, machine, magnitude,
   main body, major part, majority, majuscule, man, mass, masses,
   material body, materiality, materialize, measure, measurement,
   meat, menagerie, minuscule, mob, moiety, monad, mortal,
   mortal remains, most, movement, mummification, mummy, museum, nick,
   node, nose, nuclear family, number, object, offshoot, one, order,
   organic remains, organism, organization, out-group, outfit, pack,
   palpability, parcel, partnership, party, peer group, person,
   persona, personage, personality, personify, persuasion, phalanx,
   phratria, phratry, phyle, physical body, physique, pi, pica, pith,
   platoon, plurality, point, political machine, ponderability, posse,
   print, proportion, proportions, purport, quantity, quantum, radius,
   range, raw data, reach, reembody, regiment, reincarnate, relics,
   religious order, reliquiae, remains, richness, ring, roman, salon,
   sans serif, scale, schism, school, scope, script, sect, sectarism,
   segment, sense, set, settlement, shank, shape, shoulder, single,
   size, skeleton, small cap, small capital, social class, society,
   solid, solid body, solidity, soma, somebody, someone, something,
   soul, soundness, spread, squad, stability, stable, stamp, staple,
   steadiness, stem, stiff, stock, stoutness, strength, string,
   sturdiness, subcaste, substance, substantiality, substantialize,
   substantialness, substantiate, substantify, sum, tangibility, team,
   tellurian, tenement of clay, terran, the dead, the deceased,
   the defunct, the departed, the loved one, the third dimension,
   thickness, thing, thrust, torso, total, totem, toughness,
   transmigrate, treasure, tribe, troop, troupe, trunk, type,
   type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders,
   typefoundry, union, unit, upper case, upshot, variety, version,
   viscosity, volume, whole, width, wing, worldling, zoo

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

body. a person. 
     2. in practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the 
plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to bring 
in the body and this must be done either by committing the defendant or 
entering special bail. see dead body. 

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

body-:snatcher:, n.  a robber of grave-worms.  one who supplies the
young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied
the undertaker.  the hyena.

    "one night," a doctor said, "last fall,
    i and my comrades, four in all,
        when visiting a graveyard stood
    within the shadow of a wall.

    "while waiting for the moon to sink
    we saw a wild hyena slink
        about a new-made grave, and then
    begin to excavate its brink

    "shocked by the horrid act, we made
    a sally from our ambuscade,
        and, falling on the unholy beast,
    dispatched him with a pick and spade."
                                                      bettel k. jhones

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