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To expect; to fear. [Obs.] "I hope he will be dead." Chaucer.

on to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

y of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.

, volatile liquid, HCN, having a characteristic peach-blossom odor. It is one of the most deadly poisons. It is made by the action of sulphuric acid on yellow prussiate of potassium (potassium ferrocyanide), and chemically resembles hydrochloric and hydrobromic acids. Called also prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, etc.…

ded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hy…

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph"y*tal, a.

In an icy manner; coldly. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. Tennyson.

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.

To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden. [R.]

prove land. Donne. I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead. Denham.

Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances. Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. Byron.

The quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.

ing exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

fficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, [is] a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.

aining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth.

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.