Corpus

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. {Corpora} (-p[-o]*r[.a]).
     [L.]
     A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Corpus callosum} (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. {Corpora


        callosa} (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band
        of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres.
        See {Brain}.
  
     {Corpus Christi} (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R.
        C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on
        the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
  
     {Corpus Christi cloth}. Same as {Pyx cloth}, under {Pyx}.
  
     {Corpus delicti} (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the
        crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the
        comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a
        crime.
  
     {Corpus luteum} (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. {Corpora lutea}
        (-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow
        mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the
        mammalian ovary.
  
     {Corpus striatum} (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. {Corpora
        striata} (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in
        the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corpus
       n 1: capital as contrasted with the income derived from it [syn:
            {principal}, {principal sum}]
       2: a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
       3: the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
       [also: {corpora} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "corpus":
     A to Z, A to izzard, Festschrift, acquaintance, aggregate, all,
     all and sundry, alpha and omega, ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium,
     assemblage, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, body,
     bones, bulk, capital, capital gains distribution,
     capital structure, capitalization, carcass, chrestomathy,
     circulating capital, clay, clod, collectanea, collection,
     compilation, complement, core, data, datum, each and every,
     equity capital, everything, experience, expertise, facts,
     factual base, familiarity, figure, fixed capital, flesh,
     floating capital, florilegium, form, frame, fund, holdings, hulk,
     information, intelligence, intimacy, ken, know-how, knowing,
     knowledge, length and breadth, library, mass, material body,
     menagerie, moneyed capital, museum, one and all, package,
     package deal, person, physical body, physique, practical knowledge,
     principal, private knowledge, privity, ratio cognoscendi, raw data,
     self-knowledge, set, soma, staple, substance, technic, technics,
     technique, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot,
     the whole, the whole range, torso, treasure, trunk,
     venture capital, working capital, zoo
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CORPUS. A Latin word, which signifies body; as, corpus delicti, the body of 
  the offence, the essence of the crime; corpus juris canonis, the body of the 
  canon law; corpus juris civilis, the body of the Civil law.