car|cass

car|cass
car|cass «KAHR kuhs», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a) the dead body of an animal: »

Steak is cut from a beef carcass. The numbers of rabbits also fluctuate with the seasons, as can be seen from figures for exports of carcasses and skins (Fenner and Day).

 b) Informal. a human body, dead or living (now usually in ridicule or humor). c) the whole trunk of a butchered animal, after removal of the head, limbs, and offal.
2. the shell or framework of a structure such as a building, ship, or piece of furniture.
3. Figurative. the lifeless shell or husk of anything: »

The carcass of the sacrament cannot give life; but the soul of it (Bishop Hall).

4. the inner, corded wall of the casing of a pneumatic tire.
5. a kind of incendiary shell; fireball.
–v.t.
to erect or set up (the framework of a building, ship, or other structure).
╂[< Middle French carcasse < Italian carcassa; origin uncertain]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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