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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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Etymology of 'Carcass'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carcass" Quotes from Famous Books

... club into the hand of a beginner without something of the feeling of the sculptor who surveys a mass of shapeless clay. I experience the emotions of a creator. Here, I say to myself, is a semi-sentient being into whose soulless carcass I am breathing life. A moment before, he was, though technically living, a mere clod. A moment hence he ...

— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse

... the rigging. First jumped Daniel James, and Dan caught him out of the waters and hauled him in. And he caught the next, the boat careening, shipping a rush of water. As Captain Ephraim crouched for the leap, the sough of the rotten hull, working and heaving like the carcass of a shark, was bursting out in a score of places and the lumber deck-load rose and fell and quivered and flailed huge planks into the waves. The end was near. Dan shouted the skipper to hurry. Ephraim obeyed, and had fought his way through the caldron to the boat and was dragged ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

... drenched myself with doctor's stuff till I'm ashamed to look a medicine bottle in the face. My worn out old carcass can't be helped much by any drugs at all. I guess, as my poor old mother used to say, the only sure cure for ...

— Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence - The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands • Alice B. Emerson

... fancy work of their own time and taste. Several deer heads, one of them freshly killed, showed that the inmates of the wigwams were not far distant, and in a hollow tree by way of larder was hung the carcass of a deer, so well ripened that even Hopkins pronounced it "fitter for ...

— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... General Melville's family have now in their possession a small model of this gun, with the inscription:—"Gift of the Carron Company to Lieutenant-general Melville, inventor of the smashers and lesser carronades, for solid, ship, shell, and carcass shot, &c. First used ...

— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

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