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Body servant   /bˈɑdi sˈərvənt/   Listen
noun
Body  n.  (pl. bodies)  
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." "For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make."
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?" "The van of the king's army was led by the general;... in the body was the king and the prince." "Rivers that run up into the body of Italy."
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."
4.
A person; a human being; frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. "A dry, shrewd kind of a body."
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."
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 aeriform body. "A body of cold air." "By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire."
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.) 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.) 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.
14.
(Aeronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aerocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage.
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 caelum; 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.)
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 (Zool.), 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. "As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation"."
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."
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.





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"Body servant" Quotes from Famous Books



... see him sitting here that he isn't a great lord in the worst sense of the word. He would fetch a man a mile to ring a bell a yard off—if it would summon another man three miles to fetch a matchbox three yards off. He must have a footman to carry his walking-stick; a body servant to hold ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... Secretary. One of the very few amusements prisoners have is in watching the important fellows, the men whose friends could do so much for them if they would only let them know where they are. Sometimes a chap who has perhaps been a body servant or something of the kind, who has picked up the kind of veneer he could catch by aping his master, will furnish food for smiles to every one he comes in contact with during his stay. He never receives a letter without explaining confidentially ...
— Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude • Austin Biron Bidwell
... Benkei prowled for the purpose of robbing passengers. Yoshitsune, then only a youth of sixteen years, displayed so much agility and swordsmanship that the veteran robber yielded to him, and ever after followed him as his faithful body servant. The Japanese Fairy World, by W. E. Griffis, contains the legend of Benkei stealing a huge bell five feet high from the monastery at Miidera, and carrying it on his shoulders to Hiyesan (see p. 93). When Yoshitsune was compelled to flee from the vengeance of ...
— Japan • David Murray
... body servant, who seldom spoke, had landed at Colon, and was proceeding to make himself at home with the officers and men who were building the canal. Occasionally he paid a visit to Tom and Ned, where they were engaged about the big gun. He always seemed pleasant, and interested in their labors, asking ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... my Lord Gosford's gentleman never wore a livery, nor can I say that he dressed exactly after the manner of Johnson. Every member had his body servant, and they were not unfrequently taken for their masters. Lady Juliana, too, after the death of her nephew, had one or two attendants out of livery, and in a different fashion from your attire. Peter, I think with ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper


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