Definition of "carrion"

carrion

/ˈkæ.ɹi.ən/

noun
usually uncountable, plural carrions
1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.
  Quotations
  They did eat the dead carrions.
  1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809,
  He brought down with him to our haunted house a little cask of salt beef; for, he is always convinced that all salt beef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion […]
  1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
  Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
  1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 119
2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
  Quotations
  Old feeble carrions.
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]