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Webster 1913 Edition
Carrion
Car′ri-on
,Noun.
1.
The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
They did eat the dead
carrions
. Spenser.
2.
A contemptible or worthless person; – a term of reproach.
[Obs.]
“Old feeble carrions.” Shak.
Car′ri-on
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
A prey for
carrion
kites. Shakespeare
Carrion beetle
(Zool.)
, any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; – also called
– sexton beetle
and burying beetle
. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ
. Carrion buzzard
(Zool.)
, a South American bird of several species and genera (as
– Ibycter
, Milvago
, and Polyborus
), which act as scavengers. See Caracara
. Carrion crow
, the common European crow (
Corvus corone
) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds.Webster 1828 Edition
Carrion
CARRION
,Noun.
1.
The dead and putrefying body or flesh of animals; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.2.
A worthless woman; a term of reproach.CARRION
,Adj.
Definition 2024
carrion
carrion
English
Noun
carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)
- (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.
- Vultures feed on carrion.
- Edmund Spenser
- They did eat the dead carrions.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- He brought down with him to our haunted house a little cask of salt beef; for, he is always convinced that all salt beef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion […]
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
- Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
- (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
- Shakespeare
- Old feeble carrions.
- Shakespeare
Translations
dead flesh; carcasses
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