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The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.

ving the apperance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. [Colloq. U. S.]

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.

which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.

A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

he small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay.

ght to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary.

thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. Jer. Taylor.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blist…

To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. From the pope to the member of the capitular body. Milman.

The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.