Both Uses of
carrion
in
Brave New World
- And at its foot, here and there, a mosaic of white bones, a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer, puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by a poetic justice, had come too close to the destroying wires.†
p. 105..4
- A good kissing carrion.†
p. 254..5 *
Definition:
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(carrion) the dead and rotting body of an animal; or (more rarely) animals that eat such flesh