carcass

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food.
• noun The body of a human.
• noun Remains from which the substance or character is gone.
• noun A framework or basic structure.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To erect or set up the carcass or framework of a building or a ship.
• noun The dead body of an animal; a corpse: not now commonly applied to a dead human body, except in contempt.
• noun The body of a living animal, especially of a large animal; in contempt, the human body.
• noun Figuratively, the decaying remains of a bulky thing, as of a boat or ship.
• noun The frame or main parts of a thing unfinished, or without ornament, as the timberwork of a house before it is lathed or plastered or the floors are laid, or the keel, ribs, etc., of a ship.
• noun An iron case, shell, or hollow vessel filled with combustible and other substances, as gunpowder, saltpeter, sulphur, broken glass, turpentine, etc., thrown from a mortar or howitzer, and intended to set fire to a building, ship, or wooden defense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
• noun The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
• noun The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
• noun (Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Body of a dead animal.
• noun Body of a dead human.
• noun Framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
• noun nautical An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food