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Shotgun :: Shotgun (n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game..

Occision :: Occision (n.) A killing; the act of killing.

Manbote :: Manbote (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant)..

Burkism :: Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

Shot :: Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot..

Chaud-medley :: Chaud-medley (n.) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray..

Dominicide :: Dominicide (n.) The act of killing a master.

Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..

Infanticide :: Infanticide (n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt..

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.

Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..

Episcopicide :: Episcopicide (n.) The killing of a bishop.

Trucidation :: Trucidation (n.) The act of killing.

Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind..

Homicide :: Homicide (v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.

Stalk :: Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game..

Self-homicide :: Self-homicide (n.) The act of killing one's self; suicide.

Cervicide :: Cervicide (n.) The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.

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