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Deads :: Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

Cerement :: Cerement (n.) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..

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

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies..

Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

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..

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

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound..

Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..

Remain :: Remain (n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's.

Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Dead :: Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter..

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

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

Boil :: Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..

Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

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