Definition of dead

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Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter..

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Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..
Myosin :: Myosin (n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma..
Dampen :: Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast..
Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..
Lethiferous :: Lethiferous (a.) Deadly; bringing death or destruction.
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
Dead :: Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation..
Curarine :: Curarine (n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.
Impalsy :: Impalsy (v. t.) To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
Bane :: Bane (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality..
Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
Mortiferous :: Mortiferous (a.) Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb..
Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Mummy :: Mummy (n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction..
Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Spiritoso :: Spiritless (a.) Having no breath; extinct; dead.
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