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Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile.

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. Death's-head moth (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the tho…

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

like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.

Toward death.

all of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

See Inwreathe. Shelton.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.