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Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. "Deadly pale." Shak.

moth (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.

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

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.

An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

e attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

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Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15.

Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew. A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. Milton. When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble.

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act. "Diabolic power." Milton. "The diabolical institution." Motley. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ness, n.…

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.