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A kind of cherry. See Morello. Great morel, the deadly nightshade. -- Petty morel, the black nightshade. See Nightshade.

A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.

Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. Gov. of Tongue.

To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.…

An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling. [Eng.]

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. [Obs.] Bacon.

A burial place; a place for the dead.

To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.

To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. Shak.

A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction. Bacon.

fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

ails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams. He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. Chaucer.

ee but to praise. Halleck. Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead. Tennyson.

A neap tide. High springs and dead neaps. Harkwill.

The worship of the dead; manes worship. H. Spenser.

ining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.

An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.