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Defunct :: Defunct (n.) A dead person; one deceased.

Dead :: Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter..

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities..

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size..

Finish :: Finish (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..

Deadlight :: Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm..

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..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..

Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..

Resurgent :: Resurgent (n.) One who rises again, as from the dead..

Nigh :: Nigh (a.) Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead..

Streak :: Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body..

Obituary :: Obituary (n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead..

Spiritoso :: Spiritless (a.) Having no breath; extinct; dead.

Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..

Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

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..

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