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Any aëriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air. [Obs.]

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen.

channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

te the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

e for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

The body of troops lying in ambush.

phictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. W. Smith.

s), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostrac…

onnection with elliptic functions. Magnetic amplitude, the angular distance of a heavenly body, when on the horizon, from the magnetic east or west point as indicated by the compass. The difference between the magnetic and the true or astronomical amplitude (see 3 above) is the "variation of the compass."…

To cut off (a limb or projecting part (of the body). Wiseman.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

l; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.