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- Carcass - n. - A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
- Carcass - n. - The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
- Carcass - n. - 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.
- Carcass - n. - A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
- Carcasses - pl. - of Carcass
- Quarter - n. - One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters.
- Krang - n. - The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
- Spur - n. - A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.