bodln 
bodin (bo'dinj, a. Same us ' 
boding (bo'ding), >i. [< MK. 
(mien, preaching, < AS. hadiing, preaching, ver- 
bal u. of Iwdittii, announce, bode: see bode 1 , t'.] 
1. An omen; a prognostic; a foreboding pre- 
monition ; presentiment. 
Illninoii^""//////-', and fealful expeetations. 
/;/i. tt'imi. Sermon. .Ian. :, inn. 
The minds of men were Mini with dismal hating* at 
some inevitable evil, /v. -m//, Kerd. and laa., i. 8. 
2. Prediction; prophecy of evil. Coleridge. 
boding (boMiiij,'), i>. a. [Ppr. of bodet, .] 
Foreboding; ominous. 
So Joseph, yet & youth, expounded well 
Tin- boon0 dream, and did th' event foretell. 
Dryden, To J. Northlelgh. 
Nor knew what signify'd the ladimj sign, 
Hut found the powers displeas'd, and fear'd the wrath 
divine. Driiden, Pal. and Arc., lit 
You miuht have lieard ... a cricket sins, 
An owlet flap Ilia bodimj wing. Scott, Marnilon, v. 20. 
bodingly (bo'ding-li), adv. Ominously; por- 
tentously. 
All Is so bodingly still. Lowell, Summer Storm. 
bodisat, . Same as bodltixattra. 
bodisatship, . See bodltisatsliip. 
bodkin 1 (bod'kiu), . [Early mod. E. also bod- 
1,-iin; luitkiii, Imidken- (cf. 8c. lioikin), < ME. 
linili'ki/ii. earlier Iwydckyn, boidcki/n ; origin un- 
known. The Celtic forms. W. bidotjyii, bidogan 
(with accent, on second syllable), dim. of bidog 
= Gael, biodtig = Ir. bidcog, a dagger (cf . W. 
pid = Gaol, bind, a point), are not near enough 
to be regarded as the source of the E. word.] 
If. A small dagger; a stiletto. 
Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, . . . 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare (.,/*/.- Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
Out with your bodkin, 
Your pocket-dagger, your stiletto ; out with It. 
Beau, and t'l., Custom of the Country, ii. 3. 
2. A small pointed instrument of steel, bone, 
or ivory, used for piercing holes in cloth, etc. 
With knyf or boydekin. Chaucer, Heeve's Tale, 1. 40. 
3. A similar but blunt instrument, with an eye, 
for drawing thread, tape, or ribbon through a 
loop, hem, etc. 4. A long pin-shaped instru- 
ment used by women to fasten up the hair. 
The bodkin, comb, and essence. Pope, K. of the L. , Iv. OS. 
5. A thick needle or straight awl of steel, used 
by bookbinders to make holes in boards and 
to trace lines for cutting. 6. A printers' tool 
for picking letters out of a column or page in 
correcting To be, alt, ride, or travel bodkin, to 
sit as a third person between two others on the seat of it 
carriage suited for two only. 
He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair. 
bodkin'^t, " A corruption of bandekin. 
bodkin-work (bod'kin-werk), n. A rich trim- 
ming formerly used for garments : probably a 
corruption of baudckin. 
bodle (bod'l), N. [Sc., also written boddle; said 
to be derived from the name of a mint-master 
named liotli- 
well. Ct.atcli- 
ison and 
bawbee.'] A 
Scotch cop- 
per coin first 
issued under 
Charles II., 
and worth at 
that time 2d. 
Scotch, cl- 
one sixth of an English penny; hence, a very 
small coin. The name turner was also applied 
to it. 
I care not a brass boddle for the feud. 
Xcott, Abbot, II. xlli. 
Bodleian (bod-le'an or bod'le-an), a. Of or 
pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, who began 
in 1597 the restoration of the public library of 
Oxford University, hence since called the Bod- 
li'inii Library; also, belonging to that library: 
as, Bodleian manuscripts. 
bodragt, bodraget, [Also written hard mi/ 
(and Tiorilntging), simulating E. border; appar. 
a corruption of some Ir. word; cf. Ir. Inini/l/i- 
rrmlli, disturtw uer. Imndri; tumult.] An in- 
cursion; a raid. 
No u;i\linu lliiTi- ii"i \\ret, hednesse is heard, . . . 
N" nightly tux/i-iurx, nnr no line and crie*. 
Spriurr. t'nlin Clout. 1. Sl.">. 
[In some editions printed Inn-di-ni/x. } 
bod-worm (bod'werm). " Same as bolt-irorm. 
body ( bod'h. n. : pi. Inulirs (-iz). [< ME. body, 
budi. < AS. hiiili,/. body, = OHG. botali, bohicli, 
:ty 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Bodle of Charles II., British Museum. (Size 
of the original.) 
600 
MIK1. boteeli, boticli, body; perhaps akin to 
OIK;, bohihliti, MHG. boteche,botcch,G.lmttirli, 
a large vessel, tub, vat ; but this may come 
from another source, that of boofi. The Qael. 
bodhtii;/, body, is from E.] 1. The physical 
structure of an animal; the material organized 
substance of an animal, whether living or dead, 
in distinction from the soul, spirit, or vital 
principle. 
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take, 
For sonic is forme, and dnth the budi' make. 
Spenser, H> mm- in Honour of llcautie, 1. 182. 
2. The main portion of an animal, tree, etc. ; 
the trunk, as distinct from the head and limbs 
or branches; in ichth., often used for the whole 
fish exclusive of the fins. 3. The part of a 
dress which covers the body, as distinct from 
the parts which cover the arms or extremities ; 
in female dress, a bodice ; a waist. 
Their bodiet were of carnation cloth of silver, richly 
wrought. B. Joruton, Masque of Hymen. 
4. The main, central, or principal part of any- 
thing, as of an army, country, building, etc., 
as distinguished from subordinate or less im- 
portant parts. 
Learn to make a body of a limb. ,S/i*., Rich. II., ill. 2. 
The van of the king's army was led by the general . . .; 
In the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. 
Specifically (a) In a blast-furnace, the core or main por- 
tion between the top, or opening at the throat, and the 
boshes. (&) In mwnc : (1) The whole of the hollow part of 
a string. instrument, designed to Increase its resonance, 
(2) All that part of a wind-instrument that remains after 
removing its appendages, mouthpiece, crooks, and bell. 
(3) The higher resonant part of an organ-pipe, above the 
reed or the mouth, which causes the air to vibrate, (c) 
The shank of a type, as determining its size : as, minion 
on nonpareil body, (d) The main part of a tool ; the main 
part of a blade, as of a sword, as distinguished from the 
heel and point, etc. (e) That part of a wagon, railroad- 
car, etc., which contains the load. 
6. The main portion; the bulk of anything; 
the larger part ; the majority : as, the body of 
the people are opposed to the measure. 6. 
The person ; an individual as recognized by 
law : as, body execution ; held in body and 
goods. [Chiefly legal.] 7. A person ; a hu- 
man being: now generally combined with any, 
every, some, or no : as, somebody, nobody. 
There cannot a poor body buy a sack of coals, but it 
must couie through their hands. 
Latinur, 2d Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1650. 
A body would think so, at these years. 
B. Jomon, Cynthia's Keveli, iv. 1. 
Gin a body meet a body, 
Comin' thro' the rye. Burnt, Song. 
But human bodiet are sic fools, 
For a' their colleges an' schools. 
Hums, The Twa Dogs. 
A dry, shrewd kind of a body. Irriny. 
8. A number of individuals spoken of collec- 
tively, usually associated for a common pur- 
pose, joined in a certain cause, or united by 
some common tie or occupation; an incorpo- 
rated or other aggregate : as, a legislative body ; 
the body of the clergy ; a body corporate. 
So please you, my lord, it is a body of horse and . . . 
there is a still larger lt<i of foot behind it. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 86. 
The trading body may lie a single individual in one case ; 
it may lie the whole inhabitants of a continent in another ; 
it may be the individuals of a trade diffused through a 
country in a third. Jemnn, Pol. Econ., p. 96. 
9. A material thing; anything having inertia. 
See matter. 10. In geom., any solid having the 
three dimensions, length, breadth, and thick- 
ness. 1 1. A united mass ; a number of things 
or particulars taken together ; a general collec- 
tion ; a code ; a system : as, a body of laws. 
I have, with much pains and reading, collected out of 
ancient authors this short summary of a botty of philoso- 
phy and divinity. Swift, Tale of a Tub, ii. 
He was furnished with every requisite for making an 
extensive body of natural history. 
Ooldtmith, fret, to Brookes's Nat. Hist. 
The mind unequal to a complete analysis of the motives 
which carry it on to a particular conclusion . . . is swayed 
and determined by a body of proof, which it recognizes 
only as a body, and not in its constituent part*. 
J. II. Xewman, Gram, of Assent, p. 281. 
12. A certain consistency or density; sub- 
stance; strength, as opposed to thinness, weak- 
ness, transparency, or flimsiness : as, wine, pa- 
per, ct<'.. of good In n I ;/. As applied to paints, body 
denotes opacity or density, as opposed to transparency. 
It was a fragrant Port, with plenty of body and a large 
proportion of soul. '/'. \\'intliri<. (Veil llreeme. \iii. 
13. In music, the resonance of a tone, whether 
instrumental or vocal Adipose body, astral 
body. see the adjective-. Bodies of Arantlua. See 
' .\i-<ini<<. under corjnts. Body center-plate, -i 
metal plate on the liody-bolster of a car. It rests upon a 
similar plnte on the eenter of a trnek. The eenter-liolt or 
kinf-in.it passe* through these plates. Body corporate. 
See btHlii iH'Htii-. Body hand-rail, see haivl-rail.- 
f 
( 
body-color 
Body of a column, the part between the base and the capi- 
tal : I hi -shaft. Body 01 a gun, thai part of thi-iiim whi' -h 
Is situated In-hind the ttnnniou-. Body Of a Place, in 
fort.: (a) The works next to and surroundum a loun, in 
tile form of a pohi 
inelosed "illini tin- mlen.ii uoiku nl a fnrtiln atii.n. 
Body of the fornix - Body politic, tin- 
whole body of I- "pie living under an iili, al 
Kovenillient : Used ill eulltl adi-l met Inn nratt, 
an association of persons legally incorporated for the pi 
motion of some specific object. A body ftUt 
porate U a municipality governed according to a legiala- 
tlve act of incorporation, and thus poMeiung corporate 
political powers. 
We may fairly conclude that the body jiolitie cannot sub- 
sist, any more than the animal body, without a head. 
J. Adatiu, Works, IV. 379. 
Cavernous bodies, centrobaric body, ciliary body. 
See the adjectives. Descent ot bodies. -See deter at. 
Deviation of a falling body. n Diplo- 
matic body. St diplomatic. Elementary body 
imwrif.--- Fifth body, tie It element, the sub- 
stance of the heavenly bodies, according to the Aristo- 
telians. Fixed bodies, genlculate bodies, hetero- 
geneous body, main body, etc. See the adjeetlvn.- 
Hathematlcal body, a body In sense 10. Mystical 
body of the church, the aggregate of believers as e,,n 
stunting the bride ,,f rimst Okenlan body, olivary 
body. See the adjeetives. - Regular body, a polyhedron 
in wnich the relations of an) one Ian .<.!-< ,t summit are 
the same as those of any other. Pythagoras enumerated 
the live regular bodies (the gpkrrt is not included among 
them) : the tetrahedron, the cvbe, the octahedron, thedode- 
cahcdron, and the \conahedron. These are often called 
the Jirf bodiet simply; also the comnical bodie*. because 
Timams of Locri held that the tetrahedron is tile shape 
of lire, the octahedron of air, the icosahedron of water, 
the cube of earth, and the dodecahedron of Clod : also 
the I'latonic bodieit, because mentioned by Plato in his 
dialogue "TlniEcus." Four other regular bodies which 
envelop the center more than once were discovered by 
Kepler and by Poinsot. These are name, I by Cayley the 
mat KOfahedron, the nrtat dodecahedron, the great stel- 
lated dodecahedron, and the innall gtcllated dodecahedron. 
For illustrations of all these bodies, see nolid. Irregu- 
lar bodies, such as are not bounded by equal and like 
surfaces. The bodies seven, in alchemy, the metals 
corresponding to the plain t-. 
The bodies *even, eek, lo hem heer anon : 
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe [call], 
Mars yren, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, 
Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, 
And Venus coper. 
Chaucer, ITol. to Canon s Yeoman's Tale, 1. 272. 
body (bod'i), v. t. ; pret. and pp. bodied, ppr. 
bodying. [< body, .] 1. To provide with a 
body; embody. 2. To form into a body or 
company. 
A new exotick way of bodying, that U, formally cove- 
nanting and verbally engaging with them and to them 
beyond the baptismal! bond and vow. 
Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 37. 
3. To represent in bodily form; exhibit in 
tangible form or outward reality : with/or<A. 
As imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. Skat., M. N. U., T. 1. 
Bodied forth the tourney high, 
Held for the hand of Emily! 
Scott, Rokeby, vi. 26. 
body-bagt (bod'i-bag), n. A bag to sleep in. 
body-bolster (bod'i-bol'ster), n. A cross-beam 
of wood, iron, or the two in combination, on 
the under side of a railroad-car, which supports 
it and transmits its weight to the truck. The 
upper end of the king-bolt, which forms the pivot for the 
truck, is fastened to a body-bolster. 
body-cavity (bod'i-kav'i-ti), n. In zoiil., the 
general or common cavity of the body, as dis- 
tinguished from special cavities, or those of 
particular organs; the coelom or coaloma. in 
vertebrates the body-cavity is formed by the splitting of 
the mesoblast into its somatopleural and splanchnopleu- 
ral layers, and consists of the cavities of the thorax, ab- 
domen (divided or not by a diaphragm), and pelvU. 
body-cloth (bod'i-k!6th), n. A clcth for the 
boofy ; specifically, a large rug or cloth for cov- 
ering a horse. See body-clothes, 2. 
Before the window were several horses in body-cloth*. 
Buhner, Pelhani, Ixi. 
body-clothes (bod'i-kloTHz), .;</. 1. Garments 
for the body, intended to be worn by day. as 
distinguished from bedclothes. [This use of the 
word appears to be confined in recent times to 
Scotland.] 2. Coverings for a horse or other 
animal: properly, body-cloths. See body-cloth. 
I am informed that several asses are kept In body*lothe* 
and sweated every morning upon the heath. Additun. 
body-coat (bod'i-kot), . 1. A close-fitting 
coat. 2. In coucli-jitiiiiting, a coat of paint 
made opaque by the admixture of white lead, 
laid on oefore the transparent coats. 
body-Color (bod'i-kul'pr), n. In /Minting, a 
pigment possessing Ixxly or a high degree of 
consistence, substance, and covering power. 
In water-color jtaiHtiny, works are said to lie executed in 
body-color* when, in cOBtndUUnotlon to the more com- 
mon mode of proceeding by transparent tints and washes, 
the pigments are mixed with white and thus rendered 
opaque. 
