corpse

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

• noun A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make a corpse of; murder.
• To ‘put out’ or confuse (an actor) in speaking his lines or to spoil (his ‘business’) by some blunder or mistake.
• noun A living body; the physical frame of an animal, especially of a human being.
• noun A dead body, especially, and usually, of a human being: originally with the epithet dead expressed or implied in the context.
• noun Eccles., the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office in England is endowed.
• noun Synonyms Remains, corse (poetic).

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

• noun obsolete A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
• noun The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
• noun A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.
• noun the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

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

• noun a dead body
• verb intransitive, slang to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

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

• noun the dead body of a human being