Definition of dead

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Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead..

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Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
Cremation :: Cremation (n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..
Graveyard :: Graveyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..
Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
Live :: Live (a.) Having life; alive; living; not 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..
Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..
Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..
Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.
Body :: Body (n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person..
Bane :: Bane (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality..
Deadlight :: Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..
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