Definition of dead

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Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson..

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Carrion :: Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
Stum :: Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson..
Dampen :: Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..
Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..
Remain :: Remain (n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..
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..
Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.
Mull :: Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
Corse :: Corse (n.) A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation..
Deadener :: Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks..
Sepulchre :: Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast..
Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..
Amortize :: Amortize (v. t.) To make as if dead; to destroy.
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