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A culverin. Falcon and culver on each tower Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower. Sir W. Scott.

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

emove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1.

Bringing death; deadly. Shak.

The quality of being deadly.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.

Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

om the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. Shak.

A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

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

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

mpregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Env…

Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." Burton.

tention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas.

the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

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.