Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. {Bodies}. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to
   OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. {Bodice}.]
   1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether
      living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital
      principle; the physical person.

            Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3

            For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is
            form, and doth the body make.         --Spenser.

   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.

            Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport
            together?                             --Shak.

            The van of the king's army was led by the general; .
            . . in the body was the king and the prince.
                                                  --Clarendon.

            Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.
                                                  --Addison.

   3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as
      opposed to the shadow.

            Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
            is of Christ.                         --Col. ii. 17.

   4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as,
      anybody, nobody.

            A dry, shrewd kind of a body.         --W. Irving.

   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.

            A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
                                                  --Prescott.

   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.

   7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from
      others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a["e]riform
      body. ``A body of cold air.'' --Huxley.

            By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to
            fire.                                 --Milton.

   8. Amount; quantity; extent.

   9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished
      from the parts covering the limbs.

   10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is
       placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

   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.

   12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness;
       any solid figure.

   13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this
       color has body; wine of a good body.

   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.

   {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 c[ae]lum; -- 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.

            As to the persons who compose the body politic or
            associate themselves, they take collectively the
            name of ``people'', or ``nation''.    --Bouvier.

   {Body servant}, a valet.

   {The bodies seven} (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the
      planets. [Obs.]

            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.

   {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.

Color \Col"or\, n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur,
   colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal
   (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.]
   1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye,
      by which individual and specific differences in the hues
      and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay
      colors; sad colors, etc.

   Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function
         of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which
         rays of light produce different effects according to
         the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a
         certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter
         waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White,
         or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths
         so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the
         color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or
         reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which
         fall upon them.

   2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.

   3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and
      spirits; ruddy complexion.

            Give color to my pale cheek.          --Shak.

   4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as,
      oil colors or water colors.

   5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything;
      semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

            They had let down the boat into the sea, under color
            as though they would have cast anchors out of the
            foreship.                             --Acts xxvii.
                                                  30.

            That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want
            a color for his death.                --Shak.

   6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species.

            Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this
            color.                                --Shak.

   7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol
      (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship
      or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the
      cap and jacket worn by the jockey).

            In the United States each regiment of infantry and
            artillery has two colors, one national and one
            regimental.                           --Farrow.

   8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in
      trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by
      stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from
      the jury to the court. --Blackstone.

   Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading,
         and implied when it is implied in the pleading.

   {Body color}. See under {Body}.

   {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish
      or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}.

   {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each
      other that when blended together they produce white light;
      -- so called because each color makes up to the other what
      it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors,
      when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the
      primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.

   {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race;
      -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro
      blood, pure or mixed.

   {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the
      prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
      violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, --
      red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes
      called {fundamental colors}.

   {Subjective} or {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color
      seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the
      luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change
      of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and
      with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to
      revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel
      appear to the eye of different shades of color varying
      with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors},
      under {Accidental}.