'Carcase' definitions:

Definition of 'carcase'

noun

The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Carcass \Car"cass\ (k[aum]r"kas), 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. [1913 Webster]
He turned to see the carcass of the lion. --Judges xiv. 8. [1913 Webster]
This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
2. The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. "To pamper his own carcass." --South. [1913 Webster]
Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. --Oldham. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
A rotten carcass of a boat. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. --W. Iving. [1913 Webster]

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).