BOD 



BOD 



of gveat importance, the viceroy and council arc obliged to fpun very fine. Thefe are.contradiftinguifhed from brittle 



iend to Benin, the capital, for the orders of the court. 



BODOK, a diftriit of Lower Hungary, in the province of 

 Nitra, containing loi large villages. 



BODON. See Widin. 



BODROG, a diftrift of Hungary, near the Danube, 30 

 miles S. E. of Colocza, inhabited by RulTians and a ieiv 

 Hungarians. — Alfo, a river of Upper Hungary, which has 



bodies. 



Bodies, Jpccific gravi/y of. See Grayitt, and Weight. 



Body, denfe. See Density. 



Body, rrt/-i°. See Rake. 



Body, luminous, or Judd, that which emits its own rays, or 

 (hincs by its own light. 



Body, illuminated, that which diffufer the light of another 



its fource in the Carpathian mountains, and difchargcs itfelf by rt-fleclion, or which fhines by borrowed 'i fht 



into the Tlieis near Tokay. 



BODTY, in Zoology, the name of a certain kind of 

 American fnake, fuppoled to be of the nmphi/bjtna tribe, but 

 of which this fpecies is apparently duusttul. The fame 

 fnake is likewiie called Ibijara. 



BODUNGEN, Gri-at, in Geography, a market town of 

 Germany in the circle of Upper Saxony, and county of Klct- 

 tenberg, ^ miles north of Bleicherode. Little Bodungen lies 

 in the bailiwick of Lora, 4 miles north of Blci-lierode. 



BODWEI.L's Falls, lie in Mercimack river, between 

 Andover and Methuen, in North America, about 5 miles 

 below Patucket falls. 



BODY, in Phyftcs, a folid, extended, palpable fub'lance ; 

 of itfelf merely paffive, and indifferent either to motion or 

 reft : but capable of any fort of motion, and of all figures 

 and forms. 



The word alludes to the Saxon lod'ige, Jlalure ; and to 

 the Belgic hoode, a cover, q. d. the tahernade of the foul. 

 Body is compofed, according to the Peripatetics, oi matter, 

 form, and privalion ; according to the Epicureans and Cor- 

 pufcularians, of an affcmblage of hooked, heavy atoms ; ac- 

 cording to the Cartefians, of a certain quantity o( exten/ion ; 



accordmg to the Newtonians, of a lyllem or affociation of according to three dimcnfions : in which fenfe, body makes 

 folid, maffy, hard, impenetrable, moveable/>(/r//V/cv, ranged or the fubjeft of geometry 



Body, opahe, that which intercepts the rays of light, or 

 prevents their p-jflTage through it. 



Body, Iranfpurait, diapkanons, at pellucid, that which tranf- 

 mits the rays of light. S'.e Transparency. 



Body, the inertia of. See Vis inertia. 



Bodies, homogeneous . See Homogeneous. 



Bodies, congruous, thofe whofe particles have the fame 

 magnitude and velocity, or at leaft harmonical proportions of 

 magnitude and velocity. 



Bodies, incongruous, thofe which have neither the fame 

 magnitude, nor the fame degree of velocity, nor an harmoni- 

 cal proportion of magnitude and velocity. 



Body, hard. See Hard. 



Body, volatile, that which rifes by the force of heat. See 

 Volatile. 



Bodies are divided into animate and inanimate ; i.e. into 

 thofe informed by a foul, and thofe which are not ; or thofe 

 that have life and thofe that have none. 



Some confider bodies, either as natural znd fen fble ; vh. 

 as formed by phyfical caufes, and clothed by phviical quali- 

 ties (in which fenfe, body makes the objecl of phyfics) ; or, 

 HS intellectual or quantitative, in the general or abi'.ract ; and 



difpofed in this or that manner ; whence refult bodies of 

 this or that form, dillinguiditd by this or that name. Thefe 

 elementary or component particles of bodies mull be infinitely 

 hard ; vaiUy harder than the bodies compounded of them ; 

 nay, fo ha'-d as never to wear, or break in pieces. " This," 

 fir If.iac Newton obierves, " is neceffary in order to the 

 world's perfifting in the fame ftate, and bodies continuing of 

 the fame nature and texture in feveral ages." 

 Body, a^ecliont of. See Affection. 

 Body, colours of. See Colour. 

 Body, elements of. See Element. 

 Body, cffoice of. See Essence. 

 Jjody, exi/lence of. See Existencf. 

 Body, exten/ion of. See Extension. 

 Body, modes of. See Mode. 

 Body, motion of. See Motion. 

 Body, qualities of. vSce Quality. 

 V>ov>\ , fjUdity of. See Solidity. 



VtOOY , flid, that whofe particles cohere, or are fome way 

 connected with each oiher. See Solid. 



Body, fuid, that whufe particles eafily flide over each 

 other, and are ot a fit fize to be agitated by heat ; or that 

 whofe particles do not cohere, but are eafily put in motion 

 by the fmallcft force. See Fluid. 



Body, rough, that whofe furface is befet alternately with 

 eminences and cavities, in contradiftinftiou from a fmooth 

 bodv. 



Bodies, dudile, thofe which being ftretched do not break, 

 but extend one way as much as they fhrink another. Of 

 thefe fome are hard and malleable, as metals ; others, foft or 

 •jifcid, as glues, gums, &c. Mem. Acad. Scien. an. 17 13. 

 p. 268. 



Movies, fle.\ille, thofe which admit of being bent without 

 breaking ; fuch are thread, wire, fibres, and even glafs, when 



Bodies, alkaline, coufiflenf, elafHc, fxt, heterogeneous, atmO' 

 fphcre of, defcent of, mercury of. See tlie feveral articles. 



Body, with regard to animals, is ufed in oppofition to 

 foul ; viz. for that part of an animal, compofed of bones, 

 mufcles, canals, juices, nerves, &c. concerned in digeftion, 

 circulation, &c. 



In which fenfe, body makes the fubjeft of comparative 

 anatomy. See Anatomy. 



ViovsY , faculties of the. See Faculty. 



Body is alfo applied by anatomifts to feveral particular 

 parts of the animal fabric — As, the callous body of the 

 brain, the cavernous or fpongeous bodies of the penis, &c. 



Body, reticular. See Reticular. 



Body, in fpeaking of a horfe, denotes the cheft, but chiefly 

 the flanks. 



A horfe is faid to have a good body, when he is full in the 

 flank J a light body, when he is thin or llender in the 

 flank. If tlie laft of the fhort nbs be at a confiderable 

 dillauce from the hanuch-bone, though fuch a horfe may- 

 have a tolerable body for a time, if he be much laboured, 

 he will lofe it. It is a general rule r.evtrto buy a horfe that 

 is light bodied and fiery, becaufe he will prefently deftroy 

 himfelf. 



Body of a plant, in Botany. See Botany. 



Body oJ a piece of crd.nance, in Gunnery, that part compre- 

 hended between the centre of the trunnions and the cafca- 

 bcl. It ought always to be more fortified than the reft. See 

 Cannon. 



Body of a pump, in Hydraulirs, the thickeft part of the 

 barrel or pipe of a pump, within which the piilon moves. 

 See Pump. 



Body, in Grawc/cji, denotes the fame with folid, which fee. 



Bodi es, regular, or Platonic, are thofe which have all their 

 fides, angles, and plaiKs, fimilar and equal. 



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