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An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
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n.
The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
n.
A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
n.
A dead human body; a corpse.
a.
Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
v. t.
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
a.
A dead body; a corpse.
n. sing. & pl.
A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.
n.
The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
n.
One who prepared corpses for the funeral.
v. t.
To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
v. t.
To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
n.
Any member of such a corps.
n.
Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.
n.
The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
v. t.
To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury.
n.
A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
n.
One of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot of the British army, formerly called the Royals, and supposed to be the oldest regular corps in Europe; -- now called the Royal Scots.
a.
Not laid out, as a corpse.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
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