Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A corpse.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of course.
  • To trade; traffic.
  • A Middle English form of curse.
  • noun The living body or bodily frame of an animal, especially and usually of a human being; the person.
  • noun A dead body, especially and usually of a human being; a corpse.
  • noun The body or main part, as the hull of a ship or the trunk or stem of a tree or vine.
  • noun Same as corset, 1.
  • noun A plaited or woven silk ribbon used for vestinents.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A living body or its bulk.
  • noun Archaic or Poetic A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A (living) body.
  • noun archaic A dead body, a corpse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
  • noun a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English cors, from Old French, from Latin corpus; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Old French cors, from Latin corpus ("body").

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  • "FIRST LORD: Bear from hence his body,

    And mourn you for him. Let him be regarded

    As the most noble corse that ever herald

    Did follow to his urn."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009

  • ... I read that first line way wrong.

    August 31, 2009