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Murder :: Murder (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide..

Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.

Sororicide :: Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister..

Parricide :: Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Murderment :: Murderment (n.) Murder.

Self-murder :: Self-murder (a.) Suicide.

Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) Murder.

Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..

Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..

Murder :: Murder (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.

Cannibalism :: Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..

Patricide :: Patricide (n.) The murderer of his father.

Thuggee :: Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

Bloodthirsty :: Bloodthirsty (a.) Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

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