carcase

plural carcases

1. alternativeAlternative form of carcass.

   Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

   1874, Thomas Hardy, “The Sheep-washing—The Offer”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 211

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   Oꝛ if a ſoule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcaſe of an vncleane beaſt, oꝛ a carcaſe of vncleane cattell, oꝛ the carcaſe of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he alſo ſhall be vncleane, and guilty: […]

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 5:2, signature K, verso, column 2

   So he took for him all these and divided them in halves and placed the halves opposite to one another, but the birds he did not divide; but the birds alighted on the carcases, on the two halves of them, and Abram sat down with them.

   1808, Charles Thomson, transl., The Holy Bible, […], Philadelphia: […] Jane Aitken, […], Genesis 15, 10

   But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Shark Massacre”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 336

   I’m wonderin’ what Sidoli will do when she gets close to him. I bet he knows a trick or two. He’ll probably grab her an’ hold her in front of his measley carcase.

   1944, A[rchibald] E[dward] Martin, chapter 13, in The Misplaced Corpse (Wakefield Crime Classics; 1), Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press, published June 1992, →ISBN, page 175

   Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

   1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136