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Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.

Toward death.

all of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

Destruction; -- opposed to creation. [R.] Cudworth.

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.] His unkindness may defeat my life. Shak.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]

g, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless o…

One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation. [Obs.]

A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.

To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.