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

lf. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

The European carrion crow.

ng both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

Dead body; carrion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.

A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]

The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers. Carrion crow. See under Carrion. -- Crow blackbird (Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike…

The carrion crow. [Written also dob.] [Prov. Eng.]

The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]

e living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits. [Written also hyæna.]

d to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.

Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.

; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage.…

Eating carrion. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

ies of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.

A dead body; carrion. Shak.

ving parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.