"corpusses" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. plural of corpus Tags: form-of, plural Form of: corpus
    Sense id: en-corpusses-en-noun-BvqyzxlP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "He was a man to whom his pigs were all in all; he had established his farmyard in the forecastle, over the steerage, turning out the crew from their usual quarters, and putting them elsewhere; and it was his delight of a morning to stand and watch his pigs either feeding or being butchered; and when they were dead and ‘dressed,’ he would seek relaxation from his professional responsibilities in feeling their ‘cold corpusses,’ measuring the depth of their fat with his own chubby forefingers—and evidently rioting in the pleasures of imagination with regard to chitterlings and cracklings, pettitoes and sausages.",
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          "text": "An agreement between the University of Groningen and the Frisian Academy of Leeuwarden in 1997 has opened the means to a realization of a comprehensive dictionary. Groningen will provide the experience and archives built up since the late 1940s, while Leeuwarden will contribute especially its expertise in the electronic data processing, acquired by means of its digital corpusses of Middle and Modern Frisian.",
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