bodi

n. [ This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body. ] 1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a bodice. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as bodkin; -- a variant spelling. [ R. ] [ PJC ]

a. 1. Having no body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without material form; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality. Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. “Bodily defects.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Real; actual; put in execution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be brought to bodily act. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Corporal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9 [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. “Leapt bodily below.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]