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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Carcass \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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