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Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

ow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of killing a person to whom the offender owed duty or subjection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished from murder.

The killing or the murder of a king.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

l. It feeds upon reptiles of various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also serpent eater.

The act of killing one's self; suicide. Hakewill.

ickens. To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.

A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.

Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

The act of killing. Specifically:

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. [Obs.] Killing for sacrifice, without any spare. Holland.

To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Sir W. Scott.

Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] Killingbeck.

ne's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

The act of substituting one person in the place of another. [R.] Killingbeck.

The act of killing. [Obs.]

The act of killing a tyrant. Hume.

One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox. [Written also vulpecide.]