carcass

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food.
2. n. The body of a human.
3. n. Remains from which the substance or character is gone: the carcass of a once glorious empire.
4. n. A framework or basic structure: the carcass of a burned-out building.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The dead body of an animal; a corpse: not now commonly applied to a dead human body, except in contempt.
2. n. The body of a living animal, especially of a large animal; in contempt, the human body.
3. n. Figuratively, the decaying remains of a bulky thing, as of a boat or ship.
4. n. The frame or main parts of a thing unfinished, or without ornament, as the timberwork of a house before it is lathed or plastered or the floors are laid, or the keel, ribs, etc., of a ship.
5. n. An iron case, shell, or hollow vessel filled with combustible and other substances, as gunpowder, saltpeter, sulphur, broken glass, turpentine, etc., thrown from a mortar or howitzer, and intended to set fire to a building, ship, or wooden defense. It has two or three apertures, from which the tire mazes, and is sometimes made to serve by its light as a guide in throwing shells. It is sometimes equipped with pistol-barrels loaded with powder to the muzzle, which explode as the composition burns down to them.
6. To erect or set up the carcass or framework of a building or a ship.

Wiktionary

1. n. Body of a dead animal.
2. n. Body of a dead human.
3. n. Framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
4. n. nautical An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
2. n. The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
3. n. The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
4. n. (Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food