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Definition of Charnel

Charnel
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.
Charnel
Charnel Char"nel, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[ae]. --Byron.

Meaning of Charnel from wikipedia

- A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed...
- A charnel ground (Sanskrit: श्मशान; IAST: śmaśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö; Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད, Wylie: dur khrod) is an above-ground site for the...
- Look up charnel house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A charnel house is a facility for storing human remains in skeleton form Charnel House or variation...
- The Charnel House (French: Le Charnier) is an unfinished 1944–1945 oil and charcoal on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Pic****o, which is purported...
- kapala is one of several charnel ground implements made from human bone found by tantrics at sky burial sites. The charnel ground, an ancient Tibetan...
- The Charnel House is a 2016 American supernatural horror thriller film directed by Craig Moss and written by Chad Israel and Emanuel Isler. The film stars...
- buildings called charnel houses or "body libraries." All the human remains identified at Bâb edh-Dhrâʿ, have been confined to the cemetery (charnel house tombs)...
- "The Charnel God" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the March 1934 issue of...
- metal with the project Charnel Valley, for which he pla**** drums, wrote lyrics and shared songwriting duties with Worm. The two Charnel Valley albums were...
- people lie, neatly arranged, in catacombs (also known as ossuaries or charnel houses) beneath the streets of Paris, France. The city has an estimated...