Death

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi Danger of death.

II. Death ·vi Cause of loss of life.

III. Death ·vi Loss of spiritual life.

IV. Death ·vi Murder; murderous character.

V. Death ·vi Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

VI. Death ·vi Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

VII. Death ·vi Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

VIII. Death ·vi Personified: The destroyer of life, — conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

IX. Death ·vi The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.