keep body and soul together

: to retain in one's possession or power

: to refrain from granting, giving, or allowing

: to have in control

: the means or provisions by which one is kept

: one that keeps or protects: such as

: fortress, castle

: the main part of a plant or animal body especially as distinguished from limbs and head : trunk

: the main, central, or principal part: such as

: the nave of a church

: to give form or shape to : embody

: represent, symbolize

: to use one's body to forcefully block or move (an opposing player)

: the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life

: the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe

: god

: of, relating to, or characteristic of black Americans or their culture

: designed for or controlled by blacks

: in or into one place, mass, collection, or group

: in a body : as a group

: in or into contact, connection, collision, or union

: appropriately prepared, organized, or balanced

: composed in mind or manner : self-possessed