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carcase

 [kahr-kuhs]  

car·case

   [kahr-kuhs]
noun, verb (used with object), -cased, -cas·ing.
carcass.
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carcass or carcase (ˈkɑːkəs)
 
—n
1.  the dead body of an animal, esp one that has been slaughtered for food, with the head, limbs, and entrails removed
2.  informal, facetious, derogatory usually, or a person's body
3.  the skeleton or framework of a structure
4.  the remains of anything when its life or vitality is gone; shell
 
[C14: from Old French carcasse, of obscure origin]
 
carcase or carcase
 
—n
 
[C14: from Old French carcasse, of obscure origin]

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Carcase definition


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).

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