Definition of dead

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Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson..

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Graveclothes :: Graveclothes (n. pl.) The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.
Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car..
Deadworks :: Deadworks (n. pl.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
Pieta :: Pieta (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels..
Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Lifeless; dead.
Charnel :: Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
Corpse :: Corpse (n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously..
Carrion :: Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
Resurrectionize :: Resurrectionize (v. t.) To raise from the dead.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..
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..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..
Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments..
Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
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