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state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak.

The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in aithority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

espect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the kness. [Written also curtsy.] The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual. Golgsmith.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

e front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.

crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

mers for horses, oxen, etc. Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i.,4.

An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.