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Vest :: Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..

Legitim :: Legitim (a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

Landfall :: Landfall (n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le..

Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..

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

Coroner :: Coroner (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred..

Moribund :: Moribund (a.) In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

Jeopardy :: "Jeopardy (n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger..

Reprieve :: Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death..

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite..

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death..

Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death..

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

Fatally :: Fatally (adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded..

Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..

Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death..

Bowstringed :: Bowstringed (p.a.) Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

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