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She who creates. Spenser.

A creatress. [R.]

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him…

Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

The condition of being a creature.

To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

Cuneiform. "Cuneatic decipherment." Sayce.

See Beat, n., 7. [Low, U.S.]

Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. Deadbeat escapement. See under Escapement.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile.

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. Death's-head moth (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the tho…

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.