Definition of dead

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

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Deceased :: Deceased (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.
Sepulchral :: Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription..
Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..
Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.
Inanimate :: Inanimate (a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances..
Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..
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..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..
Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.
Sepulchre :: Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Dead :: Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
Inhume :: Inhume (v. t.) To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter..
Deadliness :: Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly.
Lich :: Lich (a.) A dead body; a corpse.
Phylactery :: Phylactery (n.) Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed..
Searcher :: Searcher (n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death..
Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
Smouldering :: Smouldering (a.) Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
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