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The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dis…

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An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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A dead human body; a corpse.

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See Carcass.

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A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

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The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

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The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

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A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

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The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.

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The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.

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One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

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A building set apart for Christian worship.

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A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down an…

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A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar righ…

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A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent s…

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A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

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The human body, whether living or dead.

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A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

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The quality or state of being doughy.

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The act of enrolling; registration.

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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

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The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

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The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.

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Inspectorship.

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For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.

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A kiln.

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The office of a leader.

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The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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The state of being a member.

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In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and av…

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A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of p…

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The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

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The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

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A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

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The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

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The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

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The quality of being porous.

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Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the pub…

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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

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The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollown…

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State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

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The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

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A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff…

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Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

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The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

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A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cad…

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The universe; the whole.

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The quality or state of being viscous.

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A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

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An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.

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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatis…

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The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived…

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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

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Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

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The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains…

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The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

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A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is pat…

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

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On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

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That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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The buttock.

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Alt. of But

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The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

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an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

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Hollowness.

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The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

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The side of the face below the eye.

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A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

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The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

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A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

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The ridge of a hill.

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An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curve…

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Foundation.

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The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

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A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and…

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Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…

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See Diaphragm, n., 2.

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The buttocks.

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The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

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The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

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The breast of a bird.

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Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.

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Early; soon.

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The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bo…

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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The black tern.

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An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Limitation; abridgment.

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The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal verteb…

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The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

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An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

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One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.

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That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.

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To aim; to direct.

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The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

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The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting,…

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Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seve…

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Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seve…

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Alt. of Consistency

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The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.

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To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

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