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Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • DEATH
    Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
  • DEATHFULNESS
    Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEATH'S-HERB
    The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
  • DEATHBED
    The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
  • DEATHLESS
    Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
  • DEATHSMAN
    An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
  • APPEARANCE
    The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
  • DEATHBLOW
    A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
  • DEATHFUL
    1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
  • DEATHBIRD
    Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl ; -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
  • DEATH'S-HEAD
    A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. Death's-head moth , a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so
  • REAPPEARANCE
    A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
  • DISAPPEARANCE
    The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
  • NONAPPEARANCE
    Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
  • BLACK DEATH
    A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
  • 'SDEATH
    An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. Shak.

 

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