corse UK /kɔːs/US /kɔɹs/ noun2 •(no longer used) A dead body, a corpse.Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting. — 1796 •(no longer used) 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 […] — 1590 formscorses