CARCASS
\kˈɑːkəs], \kˈɑːkəs], \k_ˈɑː_k_ə_s]\
Definitions of CARCASS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
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The living body; - now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
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The living body; - now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The body, usually when dead; the mere framework of anything, as of a house or decaying hulk of a ship; the frame or main parts of a thing; a perforated bombshell filled with combustibles and discharged to set fire to buildings, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The dead body of an animal; applied to the living body in contempt; the framework or principal parts of a thing unfinished, as a house.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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