Definition of dead

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Dead (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

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Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead..
Stum :: Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must..
Manes :: Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors..
Incremation :: Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation..
Corpse :: Corpse (n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
Tore :: Tore (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
Benumbed :: Benumbed (a.) Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind..
Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..
Deceased :: Deceased (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.
Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..
Dead :: Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor..
Lethal :: Lethal (a.) Deadly; mortal; fatal.
Remain :: Remain (n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's.
Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.
Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..
Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..
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.
Necrological :: Necrological (a.) Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths..
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..
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