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To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.

mpregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Env…

A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser.

Lifeless; dead. [Obs.] Johnson.

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. Byron.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

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

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. -- Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Feed m…

woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. -- Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." Burton.

tention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas.

mpleted labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

ficulty or embarassment; predicament; dillema. [Colloq.] Is he not living, then No. is he dead, then No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.

Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after men are dead." Heb. ix. 17. -- Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body. -- No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no force, to make no account of; n…