= body, n. A dead body; a corpse.
| 单词 | θ25513 |
| 释义 | the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] (62) lichc893 = body, n. A dead body; a corpse. dust?a1000 transferred and figurative (from 1.) That to which anything is reduced by disintegration or decay; spec. the ‘ashes’, or mouldered remains of a dead… holdc1000 A carcass, dead body, corpse. bonesOE In plural. The skeleton or its constituent parts considered as representative of the body after death; the mortal remains of a person or animal. stiff onea1200 Rigid in death. stiff and stark: see stark, adj. 5b.stiff one, stiff 'un, (a) a corpse (slang); (b) slang a racehorse certain to lose or not to run… bodyc1225 A corpse. carrion?c1225 A dead body; a corpse or carcass. Obsolete. licham?c1225 A dead body; a corpse. worms' food or ware?c1225 worm's (also worms') meat, said of a man's dead body, or of man as mortal. Also †worms' foodor ware; meat for (or †to) worms (cf. to be food for worms… corsec1250 A dead body; = corpse, n. 2. Now chiefly poetic or archaic. simply. ashc1275 From the ancient custom of burning the bodies of the dead: That which remains of a human body after cremation or (transferred) total decomposition… corpsec1315 esp. The dead body of a person (or formerly any animal). simply. (The ordinary current sense.) carcass1340 The dead body of a person or animal; but no longer (since 1750) used, in ordinary language, of the human corpse, except in contempt (see 3). With… murraina1382 The flesh of animals that have died of disease (also flesh of murrain). More generally: dead flesh, carrion. Obsolete. relicsa1398 In plural. The remains of a person; the body, or part of the body, of a deceased person (sometimes implying sense 1). ghostc1400 A corpse. Obsolete. wormes warec1400 food for worms. corpusc1440 The body of a person or animal. (Cf. corpse, n. 1.) scadc1440 A corpse. reliefc1449 The body, or part of the body, of a dead person, esp. a saint; a relic. rare. martc1480 In extended use, of a person. A corpse. Obsolete. rare. cadaverc1500 A dead body, esp. of man; a corpse. (Now chiefly in technical language.) mortc1500 A corpse, a dead body. Also in figurative context. Obsolete. tramort?a1513 A putrefying carcass; a corpse. hearse1530 A dead body, a corpse. Obsolete. bulk1575 A dead body, carcass. Obsolete. offal1581 The parts of a slaughtered or dead animal considered unfit for human consumption; decomposing flesh, carrion. Also (in extended use): slain… trunk1594 A dead body, a corpse; also, the body considered apart from the soul or life. Obsolete. cadaverie1600 = cadaver, n. relicts1607 In plural. The remains of a deceased person; = relic, n. 3. Now rare. remains1610 In plural. A part or the parts of a person's body after death; a corpse. Also in singular: a piece or fragment of a dead body. mummya1616 Flesh; esp. the flesh of a carcass, dead flesh. Obsolete. relic1636 In singular in the same sense. rare. cold meat1788 slang. A corpse; corpses. Chiefly attributive, as cold-meat box (coffin), cold-meat cart (hearse), cold-meat party (funeral or wake), cold-meat train… mortality1827 The mortal part of man; mortal remains. Obsolete. death bone1834 (a) (in plural) the bones of a dead person or dead people, or (in quot. 1933) of someone about to die; (b) among Australian Aboriginal people, a… deader1853 A dead person, a corpse. stiff1859 slang. A corpse (= stiff 'un at sense A. 2b). Subcategories:— condition of (5) — pile of (3) — embalmed (2) — desiccated (2) — fossil (2) — disinterred (2) — drowned (3) — dissected (2) — million (1) — resurrection (1) — part of (1) |
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