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The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler.

Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Death; decease. [Obs.] Shak.

e; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay. -- To fall into one's hands, to pass, often s…

Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.

In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

ed life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Addison. Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its…

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.

kens. Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

liest gathered. (b) (Feudal Law) One year's profits of lands belonging to the king on the death of a tenant who held directly from him. (c) (Eng. Eccl. Law) The first year's whole profits of a benefice or spiritual living. (d) The earliest effects or results. See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy…

, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. Young.

will serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15. For me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend. Dryden. -- For all that, notwithstanding; in spite of. -- For all the world, wholly; exactly. "Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry." Shak. -- For as much as, or Forasmuch as, in considera…

ng, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. Shak.

Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." Chaucer.

Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths." Coleridge. A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.

fight to the last; plucky. I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving.

deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.