Death

·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.

Death
May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Sc...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
death
To be death for, or go one's death for a thing, is to be in favor of it or pursue it to the last ext...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
death
or money boats. So termed from the risk in such frail craft. They were very long, very narrow, an...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Black death
·- A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Eternal death
The miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt. 25:46; Mark 3:29; Heb. 6:2; 2 Thess. 1:9; Matt. 18:8...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
death hunter
An undertaker, one who furnishes the necessary articles for funerals. See carrion hunter. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
death-wound
A law-term for the starting of a butt end, or springing a fatal leak. A ship had received her death-...

The Sailor's Word-Book