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Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

Disembodied. [R.]

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.

Free from a corporeal body; disembodied; as, unembodied spirits. Byron.

A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.

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.

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

to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.

Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

either under their charge or his. -- People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838.

The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had be…

The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.

To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridæ. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.