carcase : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: carcase	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for carcase
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
carcase n the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food Synonym(s): carcase, carcass
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Carcase \Car"case\ (k[aum]r"k[ait]s), n. See {Carcass}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Carcass \Car"cass\ (k[aum]r"k[ait]s), 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. [bd]To pamper his own carcass.[b8] --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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Carcase contact with a, made an Israelite ceremonially unclean, and made whatever he touched also unclean, according to the Mosaic law (Hag. 2:13; comp. Num. 19:16, 22; Lev. 11:39).