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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.

at or into. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.

al (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -…

imming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.

A swage or die used for shaping metals.

esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.

eral shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

lso, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

Deceitful. [Obs.] Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid. Shak.

The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29.

that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak.

n on fine parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "from the day of the Nativity," and sealed with the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in its parchment, written character, date, and seal. See Bull. -- Brief of title, an abstract or abridgme…

ery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. [Obs.]

g it to pass." Ps. xxxvii. 5. -- To bring under, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience. -- To bring up. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.