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messenger; a state messenger. One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered. Macaulay.

Murder. [Obs.] Shak.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.

A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian Shak.

One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton.

Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. Bacon.

The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.

h an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head 2 Kings vi. 32.

ance." Chaucer. The silly virgin strove him to withstand. Spenser. A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. Johnson.

One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. [Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.

elemental part; essence. Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. Shak.

The act of taking one'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 quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering. [R.]

ceive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim. v. 10.