Crossword clues for bodied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodied \Bod"ied\, a. 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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.] 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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (''in combination'') Having a specified form of body 2 Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate
WordNet
adj. having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; "strong-bodied"; "big-bodied" [ant: unbodied]
possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate]
n. the entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: organic structure, physical structure]
body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: dead body]
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk]
an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence]
the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short"
[also: bodied]
See body
Usage examples of "bodied".
It belonged to a man leaning against the table, the heavy bodied one that he had kicked in the chest.
Now every shikari knows that there may be a heavy tiger with a short tail and a light bodied one with a long tail.
Cambrian metazoans were similarly soft bodied and therefore rarely preserved, far more abundant traces of their activities should have been found in the pre-Cambrian strata than has proved to be the case.
Any unbetrothed and able bodied maid was liable to be the prey they sought.
These tuskless pachyderms were as tall as African elephants but longer-legged and less massively bodied.
The Kingsmen abandoned their tactics of trying to break through the gates, and turned into defensive squares, protecting their archers with their armored bodied and great shields, while those archers increased the barrage against the walls.
Five hours after Rhodan had sent his order to the camp, all tents and equipment lay on the edge of the plateau, while Tako and all able bodied hands guided Tom in its efforts to tow itself over the low frontal wall above the exhaust tube.
I had not assumed the pattern meant anything because most of the badly decomposed and skeletonized bodied that end up in my office are found by hunters.
The words and beliefs expressed ten weeks before seemed bodied forth in the darkness beyond the small circle of candle light, and I sickened at the hollow, altered voice of my host.
There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombhs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough.