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Sequestrum :: Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis..

Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments..

Cadaver :: Cadaver (n.) A dead human body; a corpse.

Doornail :: Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, As dead as a doornail..

Morgue :: Morgue (n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse..

Charon :: Charon (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions..

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Deads :: Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

Deadliness :: Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly.

Breathless :: Breathless (a.) Dead; as, a breathless body..

Stone-deaf :: Stone-dead (a.) As dead as a stone.

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades..

Dead-reckoning :: Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a..

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..

Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast..

Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..

Ptomaine :: Ptomaine (n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines..

Charnel :: Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies 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..

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