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

Respite :: Respite (n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.

Performance :: Performance (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty..

Decollation :: Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Riot :: Riot (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

Insurgent :: Insurgent (n.) A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

Executioner :: Executioner (n.) One who executes; an executer.

Date :: Date (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter..

Stippling :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

Levari Facias :: Levari facias () A writ of execution at common law.

Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution..

Dolcemente :: Dolcemente (adv.) Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution..

Insurrection :: Insurrection (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state..

Stiptic :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.

Expedition :: Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Hangman :: Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office..

Dry :: Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring..

Carnifex :: Carnifex (n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman..

Lockman :: Lockman (n.) A public executioner.

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