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A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

in movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

ted; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. To devise curious works. Ex. xxxv. 32 His body couched in a curious bed. Shak.

To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton.

A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bo…

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a

Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.

A sight covering; a scarf. See Simar. Her body shaded with a light cymar. Dryden.