corpse

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

• noun A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A living body; the physical frame of an animal, especially of a human being.
• noun A dead body, especially, and usually, of a human being: originally with the epithet dead expressed or implied in the context.
• noun Eccles., the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office in England is endowed.
• noun Synonyms Remains, corse (poetic).
• To make a corpse of; murder.
• To ‘put out’ or confuse (an actor) in speaking his lines or to spoil (his ‘business’) by some blunder or mistake.

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

• noun obsolete A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
• noun The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
• noun A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.
• noun the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

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

• noun a dead body
• verb intransitive, slang to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

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

• noun the dead body of a human being