Carrion: alternatives and connections

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony pla…

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

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

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though…

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to p…

(law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building)

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first wo…

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvi…

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them…

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…

The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.