Carcass
in military language, an iron case, with several apertures, filled with combustible materials, which is discharged from a mortar, howitzer, or gun, and intended to set fire to buildings, ships, and wooden defenses.
CARCASSONNE (kär-kä-son'), the Carcaso of Cæsar, the capital of the French department of Aude, on the Aude river and the Canal du Midi, 56 miles S. E. of Toulouse by rail. It is divided by the river into two parts, the old and the new town. The new town is well and regularly built; but the old town or cité, built on a height, is much more picturesque, with its ramparts and towers, some parts of them dating from the time of the Visigoths, and the rest, with the many towered castle, from the 11th or 13th century. In 1210 this old town suffered greatly at the hands of the fierce bigot Simon de Montfort and his crusaders, who here burned 400 of the Albigenses. In 1356 it effectually resisted the and coal-beds on its margins. These Black Prince. Of several fine churches constitute the coal-measures of Russia, Styria, Italy, Corsica, the Boulonnais, etc., and the Lower coal-measures of Scotland.
CARBORUNDUM. See ABRASIVES.