charnel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: charnel	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for charnel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
charnel adj gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" Synonym(s): charnel, ghastly, sepulchral n a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited Synonym(s): charnel house, charnel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Charnel \Char"nel\, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See {Carnal}.] Containing the bodies of the dead. [bd]Charnel vaults.[b8] --Milton. {Charnel house}, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Charnel \Char"nel\, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[91]. --Byron.