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bodiless

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bod·i·less  (bd-ls)
adj.
Having no body, form, or substance; incorporeal.
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Adj.1.bodilessbodiless - not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts"
discorporate, disembodied, unembodied, unbodied
incorporeal, immaterial - without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
2.bodiless - having no trunk or main part; "a bodiless head"
bodyless
unbodied - having no body


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The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice drop -- The bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully -- so fearfully -- Above the closed and fringed lid
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The creature who carried the bodiless head now set its burden upon the ground and the latter immediately crawled toward one of the bodies that was lying near by.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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