corporal

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pertaining or relating to the body; bodily; physical: as, corporal pain; corporal punishment.
• Material; not spiritual; corporeal.
• In zoology, pertaining to the thorax and abdomen, as distinguished from the head, wings, feet, and other appendages: as, corporal colors or marks.
• Synonyms Physical, Corporeal, etc. See bodily.
• noun Eccles., in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the fine linen cloth spread on the altar during the celebration of the eucharist.
• noun The lowest non-commissioned officer of a company of infantry, cavalry, or artillery, next below a sergeant. He has charge of a squad, places and relieves sentinels, and has a certain disciplinary control in camp and barracks.
• noun Semotilus corporalis, a cyprinoid fish found in fresh waters east of the Alleghanies.
• noun [lowercase] Three-ball billiards with the addition of a wooden pin which spots wherever it falls on the playing-surface of the table and counts if knocked down by the cue-ball after this has hit another ball.

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

• noun (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
• noun a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons.
• noun an assistant corporal on private's pay.
• noun (Naut.) a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties.
• noun A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
• noun a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.
• adjective Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
• adjective (law) punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.
• adjective Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.

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

• adjective archaic Having a physical, tangible body; corporeal.
• adjective Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body.
• noun ecclesiastical The white linen cloth on which the elements of the eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.
• noun military A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
• noun A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.

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

• adjective possessing or existing in bodily form
• noun a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines
• adjective affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit