| 1. the body both of men or animals
1) a dead body or corpse 2) the living body 1b1. of animals 2. the bodies of plants and of stars (heavenly bodies) 3. is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body 1) so in the NT of the church 4. that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself |