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Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Dampen :: Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.

Brass :: Brass (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc..

Lagging :: Lagging (n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading..

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..

Deathly :: Deathly (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

Inanimate :: Inanimate (a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances..

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..

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.

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..

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

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter..

Cerement :: Cerement (n.) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

Obituary :: Obituary (n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead..

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.

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities..

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Dead :: Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall..

Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

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