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Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..

Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

Dead-pay :: Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls..

Tore :: Tore (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

Deadly :: Deadly (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

Ophiophagus :: Ophiophagus (n.) A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes..

Dead-reckoning :: Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a..

Sainted :: Sainted (a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.

Sequestrum :: Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis..

Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..

Coranach :: Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

Die :: Die (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought..

Remain :: Remain (n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's.

Streel :: Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak..

Mull :: Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.

Baleful :: Baleful (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

Runt :: Runt (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant..

Cadaverous :: Cadaverous (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look..

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