charnel

Char"nel, a. Etym: [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.] Defn: 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. Char"nel, n. Defn: A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ. Byron.

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