Coffee has initially been a food ā chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
BODIED
bodied
(adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; āstrong-bodiedā; ābig-bodiedā
bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate
(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form; āwhat seemed corporal melted as breath into the windā- Shakespeare; āan incarnate spiritā; āācorporateā is an archaic termā
BODY
body, personify
(verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bodied (comparative more bodied, superlative most bodied)
(in combination) Having a specified form of body.
Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate.
Verb
bodied
simple past tense and past participle of body
Anagrams
• Boddie
Source: Wiktionary
Bod"ied, a.
Definition: Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.
BODY
Bod"y, n.; pl. Bodies. Etym: [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. sq. root257. Cf. Bodice.]
1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Absent in body, but present in spirit. 1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.
2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison.
3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.
4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. W. Irving.
5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.
6. 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.
7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aƫriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.
8. Amount; quantity; extent.
9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
11. (Print.)
Definition: The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
12. (Geom.)
Definition: A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat.
– Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the cƦlum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities.
– Body of a church, the nave.
– Body cloth; pl. Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses.
– Body clothes. (pl.)
1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.
2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] Addison.
– Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat.
– Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.
– Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part.
– Body louse (Zoƶl.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback.
– Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length.
– Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton. As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". Bouvier.
– Body servant, a valet.
– The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer.
– Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist.
– Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.
Bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodied (p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.]
Definition: To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally. Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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