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21 words match “CORSE”

CORSE n. 2 definitions

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

CORSELET n. 2 definitions

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.

CORSEPRESENT n.

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

CORSET v. 3 definitions

To inclose in corsets.

SCORSE n. 4 definitions

Barter; exchange; trade. [Obs.] And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

ate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

A corselet. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.

he hewed, he lashed. Spenser. They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.

ver or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

Barter. [Obs.] See Scorse.

See Scorse. [Obs.]

A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

igh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.

To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.