Definition of dead

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Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..

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Charnel :: Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
Deed :: Deed (a.) Dead.
Dead :: Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..
Infernal :: Infernal (a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients..
Sequestrum :: Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis..
Deadly :: Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies..
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter..
Resurgent :: Resurgent (a.) Rising again, as from the dead..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep..
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..
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
Doornail :: Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, As dead as a doornail..
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..
Manes :: Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors..
Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Death's-herb :: Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Vapid :: Vapid (a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood..
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