Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CORPS, n. [Fr. from L. corpus, body. It is pronounced kore, and is an ill word in English.]

1. In military language, a body of troops; any division of an army; as, a corps de reserve.
2. A body, in contempt, as used by Milton and Dryden, but probably pronounced in the English manner, as corpse.
3. A carcass; a dead body. [See Corpse.] – Shak.
4. In architecture, any part that projects beyond a wall, serving as the ground of some decoration. – Encyc.