Charnel

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  • noun. A repository for the bones or bodies of the dead; a charnel house.
  • adjective. Resembling, suggesting, or suitable for receiving the dead.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A hinge, as of a door, window, chest, etc.
  • noun. The pivot or hinge on which the beaver or vizor of a helmet moved.
  • noun. A common repository for dead bodies; a place for the indiscriminate or close deposit of the remains, and especially of the bones, of the dead; a charnel-house.
  • Containing or designed to contain flesh or dead bodies.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Containing the bodies of the dead.
  • adjective. a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
  • noun. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A chapel attached to a mortuary.
  • noun. A repository for dead bodies.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
  • adjective. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
  • Word Usage
    "His chamber is hung commonly with strange beasts skins, and is a kind of charnel-house of bones extraordinary; and his discourse upon them, if you will hear him, shall last longer."
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    cemetery  grave