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Dead :: Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead..

Quick :: Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

Resurgent :: Resurgent (n.) One who rises again, as from the dead..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter..

Deadness :: Deadness (n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought..

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

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..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs..

Hysterophyte :: Hysterophyte (n.) A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter..

Coranach :: Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

Searcher :: Searcher (n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death..

Incremation :: Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation..

Deadly :: Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies..

Lethiferous :: Lethiferous (a.) Deadly; bringing death or destruction.

Deadlihood :: Deadlihood (n.) State of the dead.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Lifeless; dead.

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway..

Runt :: Runt (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant..

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