Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   {To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally.

            Imagination bodies forth The forms of things
            unknown.                              --Shak.