carcass Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
carcase.
WordNet
Car"cass noun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
