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Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

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

Deadlight :: Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm..

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..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

Slough :: Slough (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly..

Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..

Deadborn :: Deadborn (a.) Stillborn.

Triple-tail :: Triple-tail (n.) An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher..

Curarine :: Curarine (n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

Cerement :: Cerement (n.) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.

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

Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..

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

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments..

Numb :: Numb (v. t.) To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock..

Breathless :: Breathless (a.) Dead; as, a breathless body..

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..

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