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.

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.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Col. ii. 17.

A dry, shrewd kind of a body.
W. Irving.

A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
Prescott.

By collision of two bodies, grind
The air attrite to fire.
Milton.

* 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 cælum; -- 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.