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单词 carrion
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carrionn.adj.

Brit. /ˈkarɪən/, U.S. /ˈkɛriən/
Forms: α. Middle English caroine, caronye, ( charoine), Middle English caroigne, caroygne, caroyne, Middle English karoyne, karoigne; β. Middle English caraing, Middle English careyn(e, kareyne, Middle English–1500s carayne, Middle English caranye, Middle English–1500s careine, 1500s caraine, carrayne, carreyne, carreine, karreine, 1500s–1600s carraine; γ. Middle English karyn, Middle English–1500s caren, caryn(e, 1500s carrine, 1500s–1600s carren, carring, 1600s carran; δ. Middle English karyun, Middle English–1500s cariune, caryon(e, Middle English–1700s carion, Middle English caryonne, Middle English–1500s caryen, carien, carrien, carryon, cariong, 1500s–1600s carian, 1500s– carrion.
Etymology: Middle English caronye, caroine, < Old Northern French caˈronië, later caroine, caroigne, in central Old French charoigne (modern French charogne, and in other sense carogne, Picard carone, carongne) = Provençal caronha, Italian carogna, Spanish carroña, pointing to a Romanic type *carōnia, supposed to be a derivative of caro flesh, but not regularly formed on the stem carn-. The phonetic history of the English β. and δ. forms is obscure.
A. n.
†1.
a. A dead body; a corpse or carcass. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun]
lichc893
dust?a1000
holdc1000
bonesOE
stiff onea1200
bodyc1225
carrion?c1225
licham?c1225
worms' food or ware?c1225
corsec1250
ashc1275
corpsec1315
carcass1340
murraina1382
relicsa1398
ghostc1400
wormes warec1400
corpusc1440
scadc1440
reliefc1449
martc1480
cadaverc1500
mortc1500
tramort?a1513
hearse1530
bulk1575
offal1581
trunk1594
cadaverie1600
relicts1607
remains1610
mummya1616
relic1636
cold meat1788
mortality1827
death bone1834
deader1853
stiff1859
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 67 Þe bacbitere..bekeð mid his blake bile on quike caroines. as he þet is þe deofles corbin of helle.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 265 [They] slowe..eyȝte hondred & fourty men, & her caronyes [v.r. caroines] to drowe.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22906 Ded þar gun his [a lion's] caroigne [v.r. carion, caroyne, careyn] li.
c1308 Pol. Songs (1839) 203 A vilir caraing nis ther non.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. iii. 17 Whos careyns ben cast down in desert.
c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1157 The careyne [v.r. careyn, caroyne, karoigne, caroigne] in the busk with throte ycorue.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 61 Caranye or careyn, cadaver.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxiiii. f. lxv Ye Cource of the Riuer was let by the Multitude of the Caryens or dede bodyes.
1590 L. Lloyd First Pt. Diall of Daies 51 The raven..returned not, but fed upon the carrens.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xix. 40 Dogs, which..eat the Carrens.
1718 Free-thinker No. 47. 2 The Raven..stay'd to prey upon the Carrions of the Dead.
1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) II. 235 They all flocked about him, croaking like so many ravens about a carrion.
†b. = Applied to a dead person or corpse that ‘walks’ or returns to earth. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > zombie
carrionc1460
zombie1928
ogbanje1976
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 222 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 200 Blissid Austyn the careyn gan compelle, ‘In Iesu name..What that thu art trewly for to telle’.
1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 174/3 Thenne the caryon broughte hym thyder to the graue.
2.
a. Dead putrefying flesh of a person or animal; flesh unfit for food, from putrefaction or inherently.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > carrion
eeseOE
ketc1220
carrion1297
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing
filthOE
carrion1297
putrefactionc1425
pourriture1494
rottacka1500
corruption1526
septic1597
toad-pool1607
putrification1619
grave-jelly1657
putrilage1657
putrilency1657
putredo1680
putridity1790
putrescence1843
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6544 Þo ne vond he atte laste Noȝt of hom bote caroyne.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxlvi. 10 Þe deuyl..fedis þaim wiþ karyun.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vii Whan a beast is tourned to careine.
?1510 T. More in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. f.iiiv Vile carion and wretched wormes mete.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1972 Caste vnto curres as caren to ete.
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1619) 698/2 The wormes in carring.
1791 J. Wolcot Remonstr. in Wks. (1812) II. 457 Like flies in Carrion.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 127 The vulture..feeds on putrid carrion.
†b. ? = Death. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. iv. xxxiii Þerof cometh tweie manere of careyns, for we beeþ i-slowe wiþ wepoun, oþer we beeþ adreent. [Hence 1516 in R. Fabyan New. Chron. Eng.]
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 18 They come the sooner to their ende and to carayne.
3. transferred. (a) Used (contemptuously) of a living human body; cf. carcass n. (? obsolete); †(b) the fleshly nature of man, ‘the flesh’ in the Pauline sense (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > [noun]
lichamc888
bodyeOE
earthOE
lichOE
bone houseOE
dustc1000
fleshOE
utter mana1050
bonesOE
bodiȝlichc1175
bouka1225
bellyc1275
slimec1315
corpsec1325
vesselc1360
tabernaclec1374
carrion1377
corsec1386
personc1390
claya1400
carcass1406
lump of claya1425
sensuality?a1425
corpusc1440
God's imagea1450
bulka1475
natural body1526
outward man1526
quarrons1567
blood bulk1570
skinfula1592
flesh-rind1593
clod1595
anatomy1597
veil1598
microcosm1601
machine1604
outwall1608
lay part1609
machina1612
cabinet1614
automaton1644
case1655
mud wall1662
structure1671
soul case1683
incarnation1745
personality1748
personage1785
man1830
embodiment1850
flesh-stuff1855
corporeity1865
chassis1930
soma1958
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > the fleshly nature of man
fleshc1200
carrion1377
flesh-lusta1400
sensualityc1405
fleshlinessa1425
blooda1599
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 331 Ne noyther sherte ne shone..To keure my caroigne.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour xxvii. (1868) 39 To aorne suche a carion as is youre body.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxv. f. xxxi/1 To leue thy careyne and folowe Ihesu Cryste.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 122 Our carions ande corporal natur..is baytht vile ande infekkit.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 33 Shy. My owne flesh and blood to rebell. Sola. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it at these yeeres. View more context for this quotation
1832 H. Martineau Demerara ii. 27 Much good may your tender mercies do your carrion.
†4. Used (contemptuously) of a living person, as no better than carrion. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person
brethelingc1275
filec1300
dogc1330
ribald1340
waynouna1350
waster1352
lorel1362
losel1362
land-leaper1377
triflera1382
brothelc1390
javelc1400
leftc1400
lorerc1400
shackerellc1420
brethel1440
never-thrift1440
vagrant1444
ne'er-thrifta1450
never-thrivinga1450
nebulona1475
breelc1485
naughty pack?1534
brathel1542
carrion1547
slim1548
unsel155.
pelf1551
shifterc1562
rag1566
wandrel?1567
land-loper1570
nothing-worth1580
baggage1594
roly-poly1602
bash-rag1603
arrant1605
ragabash?1609
flabergullion1611
hilding1611
hard bargain1612
slubberdegullion1612
vauneant1621
knick-knacker1622
idle-pack1624
slabberdegullion1653
thimble-maker1654
whiffler1659
never-do-well1664
good-for-nought1671
ne'er-be-good1675
shack1682
vagabond1686
shabaroon1699
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
rap1742
hallion1789
scamp1808
waffie1808
ne'er-do-good1814
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
good-for-nothing1847
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
toe-rag1875
rodney1877
toe-ragger1896
low-lifer1902
punk1904
lowlife1909
ringtail1916
git1939
no-hoper1944
schlub1950
piss artist1962
dead leg1964
1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. sig. Q.i Better it is for a wyfe to be barrayne,Than to bryng forth a vile wycked carrayne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 129 Priests and Cowards, and men Cautelous Old feeble Carrions . View more context for this quotation
1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Sept. (1970) II. 179 Pegg Kite..will be..a troublesome carrion to us Executors.
†5. Used of animals: sometimes apparently in sense ‘noxious beast’, ‘vermin’; sometimes merely ‘poor, wretched, or worthless beast’. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > vermin > collectively
verminc1340
filtha1398
vermina1400
vermin1470
carrion1477
varminta1539
cattle1600
game1748
the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > unhealthy animal > wretched or worthless
carrion1477
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 71v The euill creatures ben wors than serpentes lyons or caraynes.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xciv. sig. Cviv Wodcoks ar meate, daws ar carren.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14 Let karren and barren, be shifted away, for best is the best, whatsoeuer ye pay.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. vi. 22 The beasts of offence be Squunckes, Ferrets, Foxes.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 26 Having shewed you..the most offensive carrions that belong to our Wildernesse.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) xix. 227 They [dogs and monkeys] be paltry carrions.
6. figurative. Anything vile or corrupt; †corrupt mass; ‘garbage’, ‘filth’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > foul thing > [noun]
fouleOE
dung?c1225
carrion?1529
feculence1662
nastiness1831
muck1882
stinking fish1935
grunge1965
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A7v Declaring suche an horrible carayn of euyll ageinst the ministres of iniquite.
1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 1455 I woulde prove it upon that carrion of thy witt.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 38 Flunkeyism, falsity, and other carrion ought to be buried.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 247 Melancholy sceptics with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiii. 402 note Roman fashionable society hated Cæsar, and any carrion was welcome to them which would taint his reputation.
B. adj.
1.
a. Consisting of, or pertaining to, corrupting flesh. (Usually with some notion of contempt.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective]
purulent?a1425
carrionc1522
carrionly1567
corruptible1584
putrilaginous1598
putrid1610
putrefactive1646
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 101 No man findeth fault, but carrieth his carien corse into ye quere, and..burieth ye body boldly at the hie alter.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 A stincking Foule carrayne sauoure.
c1613 S. Rowlands More Knaues Yet? 30 Some carion beast, Whereon the Rauens and the crowes doe feast.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 454 The carrion-remains should be entombed only in the bowels of vultures and dogs.
†b. As an epithet of Death personified; also of Charon. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [adjective] > death personified
carriona1566
the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > of classical mythology > of Charon
carriona1566
a1566 R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) sig. Diiiiv Seeing no man then can Death escape..We ought not feare his carraine shape.
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse xxii. f. 61v Deliuer to carraine Charon one of the halfepens (whiche thou bearest) for thy passage.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Cordila xlvii. 4 By hir elbowe carian death for me did watch.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 63 A carrion death, within whose emptie eye there is a written scroule. View more context for this quotation
2. Applied in contempt to the living human body, as no better than carrion (cf. A. 3).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > [adjective]
lichamlyc888
fleshlyc1175
outward?c1225
bodilyc1380
corporalc1400
personal?a1439
carnal1488
earthya1533
carrionc1540
corporatec1580
nervous1616
fleshy1630
somandric1716
physical1737
somatic1775
corporeal1795
psychosomatica1834
physico-mental1844
somal1900
c1540 Resignation Northampton Priory in M. Prance Addit. Narr. (1679) 36 In continual ingurgitations and farcyngs of our carayne Bodies.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Excess Apparel, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 316 Why pamperest thou that carreyne flesh so hye?
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 6v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I By the embalming of theyr carian soules with the sweete and sacred flowers of holy writ.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. i. 73 For euery scruple Of her contaminated carrion waight. View more context for this quotation
3.
†a. Carrion-lean, skeleton-like. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre
feeblec1275
straita1300
thinc1374
threadbarec1412
exile?1440
silly?a1500
pilled1526
thinnish1540
carrion-lean1542
carrion1565
exiled?1577
penurious1594
unnourishing1605
starveling1611
meagre1612
short-handed1622
lanka1644
scrimp1681
strigose1708
skimp1775
skimping1775
spare1813
shy1821
scrimping1823
skimpy1842
slim1852
scrappy1985
minnowy1991
1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. f. 164v Ye will haue your spirituall bankettes so leane and carreine.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Eslance, as chevaux eslancez, carren horses.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxii. §3. 79 Mounted on horses, or to say better, on lean carrion Tits that were nothing but skin and bone.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 318 My base unlucky stiffne[c]ked trotting carrion Mule.
b. Rotten; vile, loathsome; expressing disgust.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]
blackOE
rotea1382
lousyc1386
unwashed?a1390
fulsomec1390
filthy?c1400
rankc1400
leprousa1425
sicka1425
miry1532
shitten?1545
murrain1575
obscene1597
vicious1597
ketty1607
putrid1628
putredinous1641
foede1657
fulsamic1694
carrion1826
foul1842
shitty1879
scabrous1880
scummy1932
pukey1933
shitting1950
gungy1962
grungy1965
shithouse1966
grot1967
bogging1973
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]
loatha700
eileOE
andsetec1000
wlatfulc1230
aloathedc1275
wlatsomea1300
unhonest13..
wlata1325
hideousc1330
abominable1340
hatefula1382
hatesomea1382
abominablec1384
odiousa1387
fulsomec1390
accursedc1400
hatousc1400
rankc1400
hateablec1425
odiblec1425
ugsomec1425
wretchedc1430
loathsomec1440
loathfula1450
noisomea1450
abhominal1477
detestable1477
loathy1481
loathing?a1513
oppugnanta1513
irksome1513
hateworthy1548
abhorful1565
ugged1570
detestine1575
ulcerous1577
opposite1578
scandalous1592
offensive1594
obscene1597
ulcered1602
dirtya1616
abhorrent1628
toady1628
envious1630
repugnant1633
nauseating1645
nauseous1646
obnoxious1646
detestful1654
reluctant1663
horrid1666
abnoxious1682
devilish1692
invidious1710
repellent1776
repellant1780
sickening1789
toadish1822
carrion1826
ugging1839
cussed1853
repugnant1879
jerky1944
vomitous1952
barfy1957
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Sept. 742 The foul, the stinking, the carrion baseness, of the fellows that call themselves ‘country gentlemen’.
1867 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 11 32/2 Then she called me all sorts o' carrion names.

Compounds

C1. attributive, with the sense ‘having to do with, feeding on carrion’.
carrion-bird n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that eats specific things
worm-fowlc1381
seed fowlc1500
thistle-eater1562
chipper1668
honeyeater1688
wheat-bird1747
falcon-fisher1759
worm-eater1760
bone-breaker1787
seed eater1820
carrion-bird1839
seed feeder1853
fish-tiger1879
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 137 Neither dogs, nor carrion-birds, would touch them..so long as the pestilence lasted.
carrion-chafer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > that feeds on carrion
carrion-chafer1816
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) II. xxiv. 386 The carrion-chafers, and others of the lamellicorn beetles.
carrion-fly n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified > parasite > feeding on carrion
carrion-fly1787
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 114 The Oak, Ask, Woodcock, Carion or Down hill fly comes on about the sixteenth of May.
1796 J. Wolcot Satire in Wks. (1812) III. 395 Court-sycophants, the Carrion-flies.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 241 Larvæ of the carrion fly.
carrion-hawk n.
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1889 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. II. 81 Polyborus tharus..Carancho Carrion-Hawk.
1901 Hose & McDougall in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 31 175 Of the many animals that the Kenyahs dare not eat or kill..the common white-headed carrion-hawk..is by far the most important.
carrion-kite n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > other types of
carrion-kite1581
chickenhawk?a1775
New Zealand falcon1781
shaheen1839
falconet1851
prairie falcon1858
Eleonora falcon1859
quail hawk1873
bush-hawk1882
longwing1964
1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. I.iijv Art thou so fonde, with carren kyte to haunt?
carrion-raven n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus corax (raven)
raveneOE
corbin?c1225
corbelc1400
carrion-raven1589
raven-crow1792
1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 140 As carren Rauens flye..to stinking carcasses.
carrion-vulture n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > vultures or a vulture
gripea1250
vulturec1374
griffin1382
bawtere1486
grape?a1500
geir1565
gryph1570
carrion crow1699
aasvoel1821
carrion-vulture1829
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. ii. 41 The huge carrion vulture floated past him.
C2. Objective and instrumental.
carrion-feeder n.
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1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects v. 113 There are many other insects which are carrion-feeders, and some of these..we would never suspect of such habits.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 48/2 The King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa ) is a rain forest carrion feeder found from southern Mexico to Argentina.
carrion-nosing adj.
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1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iv. iii. 214 The carrion-nosing mongrel.
carrion-strewn adj.
C3. Similative. See also carrion crow n.
a.
carrion-scented adj.
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1860 All Year Round 7 July 295 The carrion-scented flowers of stapelias.
b.
carrion-beetle n. any beetle of the family Silphidæ, which feed on carrion.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Silphidae > member of (burying beetle)
burying-beetle1803
carrion-beetle1815
necrophagan1842
scavenger-beetle1854
'burying-sylph-
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Entomol. (1816) I. viii. 228 A carrion-beetle (Silpha lapponica, L.).
1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 159 Burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles, etc.
carrion-flower n. a name for the genus Stapelia, also for Smilax herbacea, from the scent of their blossoms.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > smilax plants
sharp-bindc1050
sharp smilaxc1050
carrion-flower1852
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > African plants > stapelias
stapelia1785
starfish1840
carrion-flower1852
toad-flower1884
stapeliad1933
1852 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 13 June (1997) V. 93 The smilax herbacea, Carrion-flower, a rank green vine... It smells exactly like a dead rat in the wall,—& apparently attracts flies like carrion.
1855 J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Common Life I. 332 The Stapelias are called carrion-flowers because of the disagreeable putrid odours they exhale.
† carrion-lean adj. Obsolete lean as a wasting corpse or skeleton; figurative meagre, very deficient.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre
feeblec1275
straita1300
thinc1374
threadbarec1412
exile?1440
silly?a1500
pilled1526
thinnish1540
carrion-lean1542
carrion1565
exiled?1577
penurious1594
unnourishing1605
starveling1611
meagre1612
short-handed1622
lanka1644
scrimp1681
strigose1708
skimp1775
skimping1775
spare1813
shy1821
scrimping1823
skimpy1842
slim1852
scrappy1985
minnowy1991
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes sig. 245v Because it was so caren leane.
1554 J. Proctor in tr. St. Vincent of Lérins Waie Home to Christ To Rdr. How owgle and carrion-lean ye are to se.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 135 So carrion leane in the knowledge of Scriptures.
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 74 It is better to haue a declaration too copious then carion-leane.
1710 Brit. Apollo 3 18. 2/1 He is so Carrion-lean.
† carrion-row n. Obsolete a place where inferior meat or offal was sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > street where specific goods traded
Watling Street1569
carrion-row1728
Mincing Lane1880
Petticoat Lane1967
1728 J. Swift Answer Memorial 8 The Dist[ri]ct in the several Markets, called Carrion-Row.

Derivatives

carrion-like adj. and adv.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 189 It maketh them carran~like leane.
1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iv. i. 558 The carrion-like odour of the Stapelia may..act as a benefit to the plant by attracting bluebottle and other flies.
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