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A living body or its bulk. [Obs.] For he was strong, and of so mighty corse As ever wielded spear in warlike hand. Spenser.

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.

To inclose in corsets.

A corselet. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Burril.

A train of attendants; a procession.

The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

See Legislature, Portugal.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

nsisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.