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The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

g, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. [R.]

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

Deathlike; resembling death. Dunglison.

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant.

stinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. Shak.

s in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. Theta function (Math.), one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.

To thicken. [R.] The nightmare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Coleridge.

teals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer. Where thieves break through and steal. Matt. vi. 19.

; this; that. [Obs.] "I love thilk lass." Spenser. Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death. Chaucer.

gn; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. Beau. & Fl.

The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.

as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak.

The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Death tick. (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.

time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.] Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death Shak.

ity. 2 Pet. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. [Obs.] Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl.