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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?rs or k?rs; 277)

Noun.

[OF.

cors

, F.

corps

. See

A living body or its bulk.

[Obs.]

For he was strong, and of so mighty

corse

As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.

Spenser.

A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

[Archaic or Poetic]

Set down the

corse

; or, by

Saint Paul

,
I’ll make a

corse

of him that disobeys.

Shakespeare

Noun.

[L.] A corpse; the dead body of a human being; a poetical word.