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noun

Carcass n. (pl. carcasses) (Written also carcase)

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." "This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads."

The living body; now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. "To pamper his own carcass." "Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature."

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."

(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."

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"Carcass" Quotes from Famous Books

... the flesh-fly directs her to a putrid carcass to deposit her eggs, that her offspring may have their proper food, so the moth seeks the hive containing combs, and where its natural food is at hand to furnish a supply. During the day a rusty brown miller, with ...

— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... very least that the president of the road and the board of directors ought to come down in a special car and have their pictures taken with him; and a brass tablet should be put up on the ice house, showing where his lifeless carcass was recovered. And of course they would send him a solid gold engraved pass, good for life between all stations on all divisions. But these proper attentions was being strangely withheld. So far as Ed could see, the road had gone right on doing ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... out while two men were crossing the bridge over Battle river; a horse broke through and was killed and the squaws gathered around it taking the skin off, while others carried some of the carcass away, and I asked what they were going to do with it, and my husband said "they will take it home and have a big feast and if the meat has been poisoned they will boil it for a long time, changing the water, and in this way anything that ...

— Two months in the camp of Big Bear • Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney

... the range side, and when the others joined me even Harry surveyed the bear with wolfish eyes, while it did not take long to perform what the French-Canadians call the eventrer, and, smeared red all over, we bore the dismembered carcass into camp. We feasted like wild beasts—we were frankly animal then—and it was not until hunger was satisfied that we remembered the empty place. Then we drew closer together, and, though it was mere fancy, the gloom of the ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... are two things, indeed, and are as diverse as are the soul and the body; for as the body without the soul is but a dead carcass, so saying, if it be alone, is but a dead carcass also. The soul of religion is the practical part: "Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their ...

— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan

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