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One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

rst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series. [Written also eupion.]

The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor.

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

Destructive; fatal. [Obs.] "Exitial fevers." Harvey.

elf to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

xtirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. They thy fall conspire. Denham. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18.

ed for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. -- False keel (Naut.…

Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.