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Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..

Amortization :: Amortization (n.) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain..

Entomb :: Entomb (v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume..

All Souls' Day :: All Souls' Day () The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead..

Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

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

Suability :: Styx (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..

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

Deadborn :: Deadborn (a.) Stillborn.

Carrion :: Carrion (n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

Bloodless :: Bloodless (a.) Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead..

Feud :: Feud (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed..

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..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation..

Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Deathliness :: Deathliness (n.) The quality of being deathly; deadliness.

Dead :: Dead (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

Stillborn :: Stillbirth (n.) The birth of a dead fetus.

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