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A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

he evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

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

Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike. The lips put on a deadish paleness. A. Stafford.

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

xx. 24. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson.

ollowed by on or upon. He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends. Tatler.

iences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.

due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See under Bond, Book, etc. -- Debt of nature, death.

Destruction; death. [Obs.] Spenser.

Departure, especially departure from this life; death. His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser.

titutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. Shak.

in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak.