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Webster 1913 Edition
Corse
1. 
A living body or its bulk. 
[Obs.] 
For he was strong, and of so mighty 
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
corse
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
Spenser.
2. 
A corpse; the dead body of a human being. 
[Archaic or Poetic] 
Set down the 
I’ll make a
corse
; or, by Saint Paul
,I’ll make a
corse 
of him that disobeys. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Corse
CORSE
,Noun.
 Definition 2025
Corse
corse
corse
English
Noun
corse (plural corses)
-  (obsolete) A (living) body.
-  1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene [...].
 
 
 -  1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
 -  (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
-  1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
- Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
 
 
 -  1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
 
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
corse m, f (plural corses)
Noun
corse m (uncountable)
- Corsican (language)
 
Verb
corse
- first-person singular present indicative of corser
 - third-person singular present indicative of corser
 - first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
 - first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
 - second-person singular imperative of corser