corpus

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject.
• noun A collection of writings or recorded remarks used for linguistic analysis.
• noun The capital or principal amount, as of an estate or trust.
• noun The principal of a bond.
• noun The main part of a bodily structure or organ.
• noun A distinct bodily mass or organ having a specific function.
• noun The overall length of a violin.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Principal, as opposed to interest or income: as, these payments should be made out of corpus, and not out of income.
• noun In algebra, a manifold, such that its elements are representable by symbols which can be combined according to the laws of ordinary algebra, every algebraic expression obtained by combining a finite number of symbols by means of a finite chain of rational operations (+, —, ×, /) being capable of interpretation as representing a definite element of the manifold, with the single reservation that division by zero is inadmissible.
• noun Literally, a body; matter of any kind. In anatomy: The entire physical body of an animal. See soma. Some part of the body specified by a qualifying term. See phrases below.
• noun A collection, especially a complete one, or an account of such a collection.
• noun The whole content; the material substance.
• noun Same as corpusdentatum .
• noun A somewhat similar mass of gray matter in each olivary body. Also called corpus ciliare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
• noun (Anat.) the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
• noun Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx.
• noun (Law) the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.
• noun (Anat.) the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
• noun (Anat.) a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun the body
• noun linguistics a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
• noun the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
• noun a collection of writings