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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Charnel \Char"nel\, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr L. carnalis. See {Carnal}.] Containing the bodies of the dead. ``Charnel vaults.'' --Milton. {Charnel house}, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Charnel \Char"nel\, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[ae]. --Byron. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: charnel adj : gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: {ghastly}, {sepulchral}] n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited [syn: {charnel house}]
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