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Carcass

Carcass Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Carcass? [n] the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food Synonyms \| Synonyms for Carcass: carcase Related Terms \| Find terms related to Carcass: aerial bomb \| anatomy \| antipersonnel bomb \| appendicular skeleton \| ashes \| axial skeleton \| body \| bomb \| bombshell \| bones \| cadaver \| carrion \| clay \| clod \| concussion grenade \| corpse \| corpus \| corpus delicti \| crowbait \| dead body \| dead man \| dead person \| decedent \| depth bomb \| depth charge \| dry bones \| dust \| earth \| embalmed corpse \| exoskeleton \| figure \| fire bomb \| flesh \| food for worms \| form \| frame \| gas grenade \| grenade \| hand grenade \| hulk \| incendiary bomb \| incendiary grenade \| infernal machine \| late lamented \| material body \| mere wreck \| mortal remains \| mummification \| mummy \| nervous wreck \| organic remains \| person \| petard \| physical body \| physique \| rattletrap \| relics \| reliquiae \| remains \| ruin \| ruins \| skeleton \| soma \| stiff \| tear-gas grenade \| tenement of clay \| the dead \| the deceased \| the defunct \| the departed \| the loved one \| time bomb \| torso \| trunk \| wall grenade \| wreck See Also \| body \| dead body Carcass In Webster's Dictionary \Car"cass\ (k[aum]r"kas), n.; pl. {Carcasses}. [Written also {carcase}.] [F. carcasse, fr. It. carcassa, fr. L. caro flesh + capsa chest, box, case. Cf. {Carnal}, {Case} a sheath.] 1. A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. He turned to see the carcass of the lion. --Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. --De Foe. 2. The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. ``To pamper his own carcass.'' --South. Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. --Oldham. 3. The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. --Shak. 4. (Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. --W. Iving.

Carcass Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Carcass?

[n] the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

Synonyms | Synonyms for Carcass: carcase

See Also | body | dead body

Carcass In Webster's Dictionary

\Car"cass\ (k[aum]r"kas), n.; pl. {Carcasses}. [Written
also {carcase}.] [F. carcasse, fr. It. carcassa, fr. L. caro
flesh + capsa chest, box, case. Cf. {Carnal}, {Case} a
sheath.]
1. A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now
   commonly the dead body of a beast.

         He turned to see the carcass of the lion. --Judges
                                               xiv. 8.

         This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went
         into the great pits by cartloads.     --De Foe.

2. The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or
   ridicule. ``To pamper his own carcass.'' --South.

         Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For
         earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. --Oldham.

3. The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once
   comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or
   unfinished frame, of a thing.

         A rotten carcass of a boat.           --Shak.

4. (Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles,
   to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to
   buldings, ships, etc.

         A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. --W. Iving.

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