corse1
/kɔːs
/noun archaic
A corpse.Is there meant to be a pun, do you think, on course and corse?...
- This makes sense given Hamlet's ‘What may this mean, / That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel / Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon.’
Origin
Middle English: from Old French cors 'body', from Latin corpus. Compare with corpse.
Rhymes
Corse2
/kɔʀs/ French name for Corsica.
- metapsychical
- metapsychics
- metapsychological
- metapsychology
- metapterygial
- metapterygium
- metapterygoid
- metarhodopsin
- Meta River
- metarule
- metaschematism
- metaschematismus
- metascience
- metascientific
- metascutal
- metascutellum
- metascutum
- metasemiotic
- metasilicate
- metasilicic acid
- metasociological
- metasociology
- metasoma
- metasomal
- metasomatic