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Graveclothes :: Graveclothes (n. pl.) The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

Stillborn :: Stillborn (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child..

Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Nigh :: Nigh (a.) Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead..

Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..

Fog :: Fog (n.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.

Necrophobia :: Necrophobia (n.) An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.

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

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter..

Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead..

Globigerina :: Globigerina (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera..

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

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..

Deed :: Deed (a.) 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..

Smouldering :: Smouldering (a.) Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.

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

Bumper :: Bumper (n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind..

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