corse

/kɔːs/

Etymology

From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.

name

  1. An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
  2. A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).

noun

  1. A (living) body.“that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]”
  2. A dead body, a corpse.“[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?”