charnel house : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: charnel house	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for charnel house
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
charnel house 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.