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Charnel [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Containing flesh or carcasses.

Charnel [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Containing the bodies of the dead.

Charnel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

Charnel-house [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A place under or near churches, where the bones of the dead are reposited. Anciently, a kind of portico or gallery, in or near a church-yard, over which the bones of the dead were laid, after the flesh was consumed.