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

Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

Brass :: Brass (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc..

Dead :: Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor..

Charon :: Charon (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste..

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

Reliquiae :: Reliquiae (n. pl.) Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.

Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..

Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..

Gravestone :: Gravestone (n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone..

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..

Parallelism :: Parallelism (n.) Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27..

Impalsy :: Impalsy (v. t.) To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..

Lethal :: Lethal (a.) Deadly; mortal; fatal.

Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..

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