He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
D. Webster.
Corpse candle. (a) 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. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.
{ Cor"pu*lence (k?r"p?-lens), Cor"pu*len*cy (k?r"p?-len-s?), } n. [L. corpulentia: cf. F. corpulence.]