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