Carcass

·noun The living body;

— now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.

II. Carcass ·noun A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

III. Carcass ·noun A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, ·etc.

IV. Carcass ·noun 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.