Definition of dead

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

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Ossuary :: Ossuary (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
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..
Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..
Cadaver :: Cadaver (n.) A dead human body; a corpse.
Resurrectionize :: Resurrectionize (v. t.) To raise from the dead.
Suability :: Styx (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead..
Embalm :: Embalm (v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction..
Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.
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..
Dede :: Dede (a.) Dead.
Deadly :: Deadly (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.
Dead :: Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor..
Inter :: Inter (v. t.) To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body..
Offal :: Offal (n.) A dead body; carrion.
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
Placebo :: Placebo (n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..
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..
Deadliness :: Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly.
Reliquiae :: Reliquiae (n. pl.) Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
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