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