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Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop..

Heriot :: Heriot (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant..

Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd..

"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of the blessed and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..

Unlove :: Unlove (v. t.) To cease to love; to hate.

Lin :: Lin (v. t.) To cease from.

Reflorescence :: Reflorescence (n.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind..

Forgive :: Forgive (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending..

Continue :: Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped..

Uncling :: Uncling (v. i.) To cease from clinging or adhering.

Illuminati :: Illuminati (v. t.) Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years..

Keen :: Keen (n.) A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.

Obituary :: Obituary (n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch..

Fine :: Fine (v. t.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.

Deceased :: Deceased (imp. & p. p.) of Deceas.

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