noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

noun:

• skin
• body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) ➜ 肌を許す

noun / suffix noun:

• surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture
• disposition; temperament; character; type ➜ 肌が合う

noun:

• oshitaoshi; (frontal) push-down; (win by) knocking down opponent by pushing him with hand(s) rested on his body

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body - proverb

noun:

• middle of a body of water (e.g. a lake, a river)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to snuggle up to; to nuzzle; to burrow into; to press a part of one's body against something

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

noun:

• code of law; body of law

noun:

• non-magnetic body; non-magnetic material

noun:

• self-governing body; self-governing organ

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• preface; introduction ➜ 前置き
• lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up
• payment in advance (by bank transfer) - abbreviation ➜ 前振込み
• swinging (one's body) forward

noun:

• vitreous body (of the eye); vitreous humor; vitreous humour; the vitreous - Anatomy term

noun:

• text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter)
• this passage; this sentence

noun / ~する noun:

• attending someone through the night (guard, nurse)
• act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding)
• keeping overnight vigil over body before burial

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

expression:

• a sound mind is in a sound body; mens sana in corpore sano - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.) ➜ 着替える
• to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake ➜ 履き違える

noun:

• adipocere; grave wax; greying of the body fats of a corpse which rests in a moist but airless place (graying)

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

noun:

• painting with the body of a brush's bristles (to create a thicker line than possible with the tip) ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】

noun:

• valuing one's body and life; holding one's life dear - four character idiom

noun:

• being thin and bony; bony body - archaism
• bony old man; bony old woman - derogatory term - archaism

noun:

• piece of meat; lump of meat
• the body; the flesh