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or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

of taking game for food or for sport. -- Game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [Eng.] -- To be game. (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.] -- To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to d…

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]

he twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ.

The killing of one human being by another.

follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

us), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.

The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck.

A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also mountain parrot.

The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [Obs.]

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc

To conceal with masks; to disguise. "To masquerade vice." Killingbeck.

The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows mur…

A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

A killing; the act of killing. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.