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In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death. Beau. & Fl.

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment. [R.] Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so. Congreve.

Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

ed before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written…

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

ess with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

-- In the article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of death; in the dying struggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (…

Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending. They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shak.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

or murderous disposition. [R.] He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.

bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.

Embroidery. [Obs.] Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.

as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm. Milton.

ntrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

nation; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.

s of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.