Definition of dead

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

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Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities..
Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Deadly :: Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies..
Death's-herb :: Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Coranach :: Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..
Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..
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..
Placebo :: Placebo (n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle..
Embalm :: Embalm (v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction..
Inter :: Inter (v. t.) To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body..
Remain :: Remain (n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's.
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..
Eremacausis :: Eremacausis (n.) A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..
Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Deads :: Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
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