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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.

i); -- 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.

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.

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

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

es. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

One who abates a nuisance. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.