The body; the living body; also, the body as the seat of desire and appetite.

The complete physical form of a person or animal; the assemblage of parts, organs, and tissues that constitutes the whole material organism.

figurative. Chiefly literary and poetic. The material of the human body, considered as derived from the ground; the human body or its substance…

= body, n. The living body. Also the trunk, as opposed to the limbs.

(a) poetic the human body; (b) a building or vault in which the bones of the dead are placed, a charnel house.

transferred and figurative (from 1.) Applied to the mortal frame of man (usually in reference to Genesis ii. 7, iii. 19).

The physical or material frame of man; the body. Obsolete except in Biblical allusions. †to be free of one's flesh: to expose oneself boldly in…

= outward, adj. 3b (Cf. outer, adj. n.2compounds 2.)

In plural. The skeleton; (hence) the body, the person.

= body, n.

The trunk of the body; hence the body of a person or animal. After 14th cent. only Scottish and dialect.

The body (? as the shell or integument of the soul. Cf. German madensack ‘worm-sack,’ the body). Obsolete.

figurative. Applied disparagingly to the human body, to man in general, or to single persons.

The body of a person or of an animal; a (living) body; a person. Obsolete (before the spelling corpse was established.)

figurative (chiefly in or after Biblical use). Said of the body, esp. as the receptacle of the soul. Obsolete.

figurative. In phraseology chiefly of biblical origin: A dwelling-place. Applied to the human body regarded as the temporary abode of the soul or of…

transferred. (a) Used (contemptuously) of a living human body; cf. carcass, n. (? obsolete); †(b) the fleshly nature of man, ‘the flesh’ in the…

A living body; = corpse, n. 1. Obsolete.

The living body or physical appearance of a human being; spec. (a) the body regarded as distinct from the mind or soul, or from its clothing…

Earth as the material of the human body (cf. Genesis ii. 7); hence, the human body (living or dead) as distinguished from the soul; the earthly or…

The living body considered in its material nature. Obsolete except as in 3.

applied disparagingly to the human body, or to a person stigmatized as ‘soulless’.

The physical body. Obsolete.

The body of a person or animal. (Cf. corpse, n. 1.)

the human body.

= bouk, n. 1 2 The belly; also the trunk, the body generally. Obsolete.

a physical body, as opposed to a spiritual body: in later use only in allusion to 1 Corinthians 15:44.

Chiefly Theology. outward man: the body as opposed to the soul or spirit; observable behaviour as opposed to inner disposition or character…

The body.

†(a) a part or organ of the body containing blood (not identified; perhaps the liver or spleen) (obsolete); (b) = blood volume n.

As much as a body or person can hold; a body's worth of something. Also figurative: a person filled with a particular quality, emotion, etc.

figurative. Applied depreciatively to the human body as being a mass of ‘clay’; also to a human being as a ‘child of clay’, or as ‘of the earth…

Applied depreciatively to the bodily frame.

figurative and in extended use. Something which conceals, covers, or hides in the manner of a veil… The human body; spec. (a) the body as a…

Chiefly humorous or poetic. A person's body; a person. Obsolete.

A living body, esp. the human body considered in general or individually. Now chiefly figurative from sense 6b (cf. sense 8b).

Originally: †a person's clothing, the body considered as enclosing the inner self or soul (obsolete). In later use (only recorded in Edmund…

Transferred senses. Unhallowed, unsanctified; unspiritual, secular, worldly, esp. in lay part. Obsolete.

= machine, n. (in various senses).

figurative. ‘Tabernacle’. Obsolete.

In extended use (chiefly from sense 1). A living being regarded as the sum of its physical functions, motions, or parts. Now rare.

A person's body; = man-case n. at man, n.1 compounds 2a. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. Obsolete.

A building, an edifice; esp. (in early use) a large or imposing one.

The (notional) casing or repository of the soul; (slang and colloquial) the body.

concrete. A body, person, or form in which a soul, spirit, or deity is incarnated; an incarnate or embodied form (of).

The body or physical appearance of a person. Also in plural: bodily parts. Obsolete.

The body of a person, esp. with reference to appearance, stature, etc.; a person's figure; personal appearance. Cf. person, n. 4a. Also figurative…

With modifying word. humorous. The inner (outer, etc.) part of a person's body. Now rare except in inner man at inner, adj. 3, outer man n. at outer…

concrete. That in which (something) is embodied. The corporeal ‘vesture’ or ‘habitation’ of (a soul). Also figurative.

Bodily personality; body, person. colloquial.

transferred. The body of a person or animal. slang.

The body in contrast to the mind or the soul. Opposed to psyche.