Helen Fenton

Carcass: Definition and part of speech

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Carcass

  1. n. A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
  2. n. A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
  3. n. The living body; — now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
  4. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Carcel lamp: Definition and part of speech

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Carcel lamp

  1. A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Carcinology: Definition and part of speech

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Carcinology

  1. n. The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); — called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Carcinoma: Definition and part of speech

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Carcinoma

  1. n. A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.