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A dead human body; a corpse.

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented ant…

umstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. Dependence is a perpetual call upon hummanity. Addison. Running into danger without any call of duty. Macaulay.

One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray.

A beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.

A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. Darwin.

The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke.

A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch.

to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. viii. 6.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.