body

Physical frame.

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.

Physical frame.

The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

Physical frame.

Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.

The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.

Physical frame.

Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]

Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

Physical frame.

the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body.

This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

To give body or shape to something.

And 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.

[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]

To construct the bodywork of a car.

To embody.

I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.

To murder someone.

To murder someone.

I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.

A surname transferred from the nickname.