corse

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.Examples: "that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]"obsolete

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.Examples: "[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?"; "Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting."; "'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse"archaic