See carrion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Vultures feed on carrion.",
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"ref": "1568, Anthony of Gueuara [i.e., Antonio de Guevara], “That the Nobles ⁊ Beloued of Princes Exceede Not in Superfluous Fare, ⁊ that They bee Not too Sũptuous in Their Meates. A Notable Chapter for Those yͭ Vse too much Delicacye and Superfluity.”, in Thomas North, transl., The Dial of Princes. […], revised edition, London: […] Richarde Tottill, and Thomas Marshe, →OCLC, 4th booke, folio 160, verso:",
"text": "[W]ee ſee by experience, that ſome [brute beasts] feedeth on yͤ graſſe in yͤ fyelds ſome liues in the ayre eating flyes, others vpon yͤ wormes in carin, others wͭ [with] that they fynd vnder the water.",
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Advocate”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 119:",
"text": "[W]hat disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies' plaudits?",
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"ref": "1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 7, column 2:",
"text": "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, and invariably, when he goes to London, packs a piece in his portmanteau.",
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"ref": "1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter X, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 123:",
"text": "And the butterflies are flaunting across the rides in the Forest. Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.",
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "ლეში"
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"tags": [
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"word": "Kadaver"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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"word": "θνησιμαίο"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
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"word": "נְבֵלָה"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"roman": "péger",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
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"masculine"
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"word": "פֶּגֶר"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "dög"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "tetem"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "hulla"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ablach"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carogna"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "骸"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"roman": "shiniku",
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"word": "死肉"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"roman": "funiku",
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
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"masculine"
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"word": "mirar"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "pera"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "viĺa",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "виля"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "enm",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "caroyne"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "mn",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "улай"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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"word": "åtsel"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "kadaver"
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"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "carònha"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ǣs"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "leş",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "لاش"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
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"roman": "murdar",
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"word": "مردار"
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{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "padlina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 1 4 3 2 9",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
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"text": "[T]hey looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; […]",
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"text": "[T]here is here a perpetual Garriſon of Engliſh, but they are of Engliſh Dogs, vvhich are let out in the night to guard the Ships, and eat the Carrens up and dovvn the Streets, and ſo they are ſhut up again in the Morning.",
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"text": "Having ſhevved you the moſt deſireable, uſefull, and beneficiall creatures, vvith the moſt offenſive carrions that belong to our VVilderneſſe, it remaines in the next place, to ſhevv you ſuch kinds of Fovvle as the Countrey affoords: […]",
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"text": "You'l aske me vvhy I rather chooſe to haue / A vveight of carrion fleſh, then to receiue / Three thouſand Ducats?",
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"ref": "1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter X, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 123:",
"text": "And the butterflies are flaunting across the rides in the Forest. Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.",
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"ref": "1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Courage”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 247:",
"text": "[T]here are melancholy sceptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history,—persecutions, inquisitions, St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives, […]",
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},
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"ref": "1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XXIII, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, footnote 2, page 402, column 1:",
"text": "Roman fashionable society hated Cæsar, and any carrion was welcome to them which would taint his reputation.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Corrupt or horrid matter."
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"matter",
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},
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],
"glosses": [
"Filth, garbage."
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"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature E3, recto:",
"text": "Shy[lock]. My ovvne fleſh and blood to rebell. / Salan[io]. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it as theſe yeares.",
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}
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"glosses": [
"The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature."
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{
"ref": "1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC, page 166:",
"text": "[T]hey looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1620 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XX. To My Cousin W[illiam] Vaughan Esq; from St. Malo”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section I, page 30:",
"text": "[T]here is here a perpetual Garriſon of Engliſh, but they are of Engliſh Dogs, vvhich are let out in the night to guard the Ships, and eat the Carrens up and dovvn the Streets, and ſo they are ſhut up again in the Morning.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dead body; a carcass, a corpse."
],
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"carcass",
"carcass"
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"corpse",
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{
"ref": "1550, John Heywood, “The Woodcock and the Daw”, in An Hundred Epigrammes. […], London: […] Thomas Berthelet, →OCLC, signature [Cvi], verso:",
"text": "[L]ords will by their wils / Rather haue one wodcock, than a thouſand dawſe. / Wodcocks ar meate, daws ar carren, wey this clauſe. / In dede ſir (ſaid the daw) I muſt needes agree, / Lords loue to eate you, and not to eate mee.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1580, Thomas Tusser, “Septembers Husbandrie”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], →OCLC, stanza 6, folio 15, verso:",
"text": "Let carren and barren, be ſhifted awaie, / for beſt is the beſt, whatſoeuer ye paie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 26:",
"text": "Having ſhevved you the moſt deſireable, uſefull, and beneficiall creatures, vvith the moſt offenſive carrions that belong to our VVilderneſſe, it remaines in the next place, to ſhevv you ſuch kinds of Fovvle as the Countrey affoords: […]",
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}
],
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"An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin."
],
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],
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],
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],
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"(figurative) An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin."
],
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{
"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 115, column 1:",
"text": "And vvhat other Oath, / Then Honeſty to Honeſty ingag'd, / That this ſhall be, or vve vvill fall for it. / Svveare Prieſts and Covvards, and men Cautelous / Old feeble Carrions, and ſuch ſuffering Soules / That vvelcome vvrongs: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1661 September 25 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 15th, 1661 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 97:",
"text": "[…] Pegg Kite, […] will be, I doubt, a troublesome carrion to us executors; but if she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my executorship.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A contemptible or worthless person."
],
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],
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],
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],
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}
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]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
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},
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"dialectal",
"obsolete"
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{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "karkas"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "kërmë"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "shtrek"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jīfa",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "جِيفة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "faṭīsa",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "فَطِيسَة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "leš",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "լեշ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "geš",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "գեշ"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "carnáu"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "carnazu"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "carnada"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "cəmdək"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "leş"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "yemtek",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "емтек"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "üləkhə",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "үләкһә"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "haratustel"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎ́rša",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мъ́рша"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "leš",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "леш"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carronya"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rossa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fǔròu",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "腐肉"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mršina"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zdechlina"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ådsel"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kadaver"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kadaver"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "aas"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kreng"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "karkas"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "ræ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "haaska"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "raato"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "charogne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calaza"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carriza"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carniza"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "leši",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "ლეში"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Aas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kadaver"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thnisimaío",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "θνησιμαίο"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koufári",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κουφάρι"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "psofími",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ψοφίμι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "kenébreia",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "κενέβρεια"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nevelá",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "נְבֵלָה"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "péger",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פֶּגֶר"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "döghús"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "dög"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "tetem"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "hulla"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ablach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carogna"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mukuro",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "骸"
},
{
"alt": "しにく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiniku",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "死肉"
},
{
"alt": "ふにく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "funiku",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "腐肉"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mirar"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "cadaver"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "morticīnus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maita"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "pera"
},
{
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "viĺa",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "виля"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "caroyne"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "ulaj",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "улай"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "åtsel"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kadaver"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carònha"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ǣs"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "leş",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "لاش"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "murdar",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "مردار"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "padlina"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carniça"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mortăciune"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"word": "stârv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pádalʹ",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "па́даль"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mertvečína",
"sense": "rotting flesh of a dead animal or person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мертвечи́на"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"english": "These gluttons daily kill themselves [with] their own hands, and no man finds fault, but carries his carrion [indicated as carien] corse into the choir [of the church], and with much solemn service, buries the body boldly at the high altar, when they have at their life (as the apostle says) made their belly their god, and liked to know none other: […]",
"ref": "c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]. Of Glotony.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, column 101:",
"text": "Theſe glotõs daily kil thẽſelf their own handes, ⁊ no man findeth fault, but carieth his cariẽ corſe into yͤ quere, and wͭ much ſolẽne ſeruice, burieth yͤ body boldly at the hie alter, whẽ thei haue at their life (as thapoſtle ſaith) made theyr belly their god, ⁊ liked to know none other: […]",
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"ref": "1582, Virgil, “The Third Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 71:",
"text": "This coouie [i.e., covey of harpies] rauenouſe, and ſwift with a deſperat onſet, / They gripte in tallants the meat, and foorth ſpourged a ſtincking / Foule carrayne ſauoure: […]",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signatures [G4], verso – H, recto:",
"text": "You'l aske me vvhy I rather chooſe to haue / A vveight of carrion fleſh, then to receiue / Three thouſand Ducats?",
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"ref": "1826 September 16, “Rural Ride, down the Valley of the Avon, in Wiltshire”, in William Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Weekly Register, volume LIX, number 12, London: […] W[illiam] Cobbett, […], →OCLC, column 742:",
"text": "[T]he baseness, the foul, the stinking, the carrion baseness, of the fellows that call themselves \"country gentlemen,\" is, […] that, while they are thus bold with regard to the working and poor people, they never even whisper a word against pensioners, placemen, soldiers, parsons, fundholders, tax-gatherers, or tax-eaters! They say not a word against the prolific dead-weight, to whom they GIVE A PREMIUM FOR BREEDING, while they want to check the population of labourers!",
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Town-Ho’s Story”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 284–285:",
"text": "'But as for you, ye carrion rogues,' turning to the three men in the rigging—'for you, I mean to mince ye up for the try-pots;' and, seizing a rope, he applied it with all his might to the backs of the two traitors, till they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads sideways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.",
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"ref": "c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signature H, recto:",
"text": "Shees bitter to her country, heare me Paris, / For euery falſe drop in her bavvdy veines, / A Grecians life hath ſunke: for euery ſcruple / Of her contaminated carrion vvaight, / A Troyan hath beene ſlaine.",
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"text": "O hell! vvhat haue vve heere, a carrion death? / VVithin vvhoſe empty eye there is a vvritten ſcroule, / Ile reade the vvriting.",
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