DPage 30
- English Word Deas Definition See Dais.
- English Word Death Definition The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
- English Word Death Definition Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
- English Word Death Definition Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
- English Word Death Definition Cause of loss of life.
- English Word Death Definition Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
- English Word Death Definition Danger of death.
- English Word Death Definition Murder; murderous character.
- English Word Death Definition Loss of spiritual life.
- English Word Death Definition Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
- English Word Death's-head Definition A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
- English Word Death's-herb Definition The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
- English Word Deathbed Definition The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
- English Word Deathbird Definition Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
- English Word Deathblow Definition A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
- English Word Deathful Definition Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
- English Word Deathful Definition Liable to undergo death; mortal.
- English Word Deathfulness Definition Appearance of death.
- English Word Deathless Definition Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
- English Word Deathlike Definition Resembling death.
- English Word Deathlike Definition Deadly.
- English Word Deathliness Definition The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
- English Word Deathly Definition Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
- English Word Deathly Definition Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
- English Word Deathsman Definition An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
- English Word Deathward Definition Toward death.
- English Word Deathwatch Definition A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
- English Word Deathwatch Definition A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
- English Word Deathwatch Definition The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
- English Word Deaurate Definition Gilded.