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Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

Incremation :: Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation..

Necrolatry :: Necrolatry (n.) The worship of the dead; manes worship.

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..

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

Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

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

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin..

Wanness :: Wanness (n.) The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever..

Cadaverous :: Cadaverous (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body..

Hysterophyte :: Hysterophyte (n.) A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter..

Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

Deathly :: Deathly (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

Deadly :: Deadly (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.

Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

Dead :: Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle..

Dead-pay :: Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls..

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