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A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

f a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

y terror. The secret dread of divine displeasure. Tillotson. The dread of something after death. Shak.

quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n.,

table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.

In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death. Beau. & Fl.

irit in our hearts. 2 Cor. i. 22. And from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death. Shak.

carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise. This earthly load Of death, called life. Milton. Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil. iii. 19.

ydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.

Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. "Elysian shades." Massinger. "Elysian age." Beattie. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow.

A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

ment, a head on a coin, or the like. Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.

To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.