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ormly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.

hus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance. Too many of t…

m. See Torvous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).

Act or power of exciting emotion. Not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us. Shak.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." Chaucer.

A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation…

ee. I Kings viii. 50. What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression, death denounced that day Milton. The transgression is in the stealer. Shak.

state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

nge to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

o recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. Pope.

To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail. Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time. Milton. On this occasion, however, genius triumphed. Macaulay.

t parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.

ly; offensive; loathsome. [Obs.] -- Ug"some*ness, n. [Obs.] "The horror and ugsomeness of death." Latimer.

to all the senses, that is, to eyes, ears, nostrils, etc., of a person when in danger of death from illness, -- done for remission of sins. [James v. 14, 15.]

Not subject to death; immortal. [Obs.] -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.