See Also: carrion(dictionary)
carrion(dictionary)
Carrion's disease(medicine)
Carrion, Daniel(medicine)
Carrion's disease(dictionary)
Hospital General Rio Carrion(health)

UNCERTAINTY (law) and carrion (iou)


UNCERTAINTY (law)


UNCERTAINTY. That which is unknown or vague. Vide Certainty.

carrion (iou)



carrion noun & adjective. ME.
[Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French caroi(g)ne, Old French charoigne (mod. charogne) from Proto-Romance, from Latin caro flesh.]
A. noun.
A dead body; a carcass. ME-M18.
Dead putrefying flesh. ME.
D. Attenborough The nautilus feeds not only on carrion but on living creatures such as crabs.
a. Human or animal flesh regarded as no better than the dead. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 4. ME.
b. A worthless or noxious person or beast. obsolete exc. dial. L15.
fig. Corruption, garbage, filth; something vile. LME.
J. A. Froude Roman fashionable society hated C?sar, and any carrion was welcome to them which would taint his reputation.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to rotting flesh or putrefaction; rotten, loathsome. LME.
G. M. Hopkins Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee.
Comb.: carrion-beetle a beetle of the family Silphidae, feeding on carrion; carrion crow: see CROW noun1 1; carrion-flower (a) a plant of the African genus Stapelia of the milkweed family Asclepiadaceae; (b) a N. American plant of the lily family, Smilax herbacea, having fetid flowers.