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Cremation :: Cremation (n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead..

Philomot :: Philomot (a.) Of the color of a dead leaf.

Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

Dust :: Dust (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead..

Deadening :: Deadening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deade.

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin..

Deadly :: Deadly (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..

Obtund :: Obtund (v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall..

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons..

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs..

Incremation :: Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation..

Manes :: Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..

Hornbill :: Hornbill (n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals..

Suability :: Styx (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead..

Ophiophagus :: Ophiophagus (n.) A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes..

Boil :: Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core..

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