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The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

. [Obs.] Chaucer. But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead shall see. Spenser.

victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

A dead human body; a corpse.

Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.

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

onstitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. He turned to see the carcass of the lion. Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

Dead body; carrion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser.

e body. (Shak). (b) The tomb. (Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. Shak.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

A coffin. [Obs.] He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. Chaucer.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.