Carrion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

   “Vultures feed on carrion.”

2. isim Corrupt or horrid matter.

   “[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, […]”

3. isim Filth, garbage.
4. isim The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.

   “Shy[lock]. My ovvne fleſh and blood to rebell. / Salan[io]. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it as theſe yeares.”

5. isim A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.

   “[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; […]”

6. isim An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.

   “[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.”

7. isim A contemptible or worthless person.

   “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: […]”

8. sıfat Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.

   “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: […]”

9. sıfat Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
10. sıfat Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.

    “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.”

11. sıfat Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.
12. sıfat Of or pertaining to death.

    “O hell! vvhat haue vve heere, a carrion death? / VVithin vvhoſe empty eye there is a vvritten ſcroule, / Ile reade the vvriting.”

13. özel isim A surname.