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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Ashy :: Ashy (a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..
Slough :: Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..
Chain :: Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels..
Deadhead :: Deadhead (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc..
Remain :: Remain (n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Deadhead :: Deadhead (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
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..
Carrion :: Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
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..
Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.
Dead :: Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor..
Exanimous :: Exanimous (a.) Lifeless; dead.
Dead :: Dead (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
Pieta :: Pieta (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels..
Graveclothes :: Graveclothes (n. pl.) The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.
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..
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