Deathfulness
(Death"ful*ness), n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
Deathless
(Death"less), a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as,
deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike
(Death"like`) a.
1. Resembling death.
A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose.
Pope. 2. Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
Deathliness
(Death"li*ness) n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
Deathly
(Death"ly), a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Deathly
(Death"ly), adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Death's-head
(Death's"-head`) n. 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 so called from a figure resembling a human
skull on the back of the thorax; — called also death's-head sphinx.
Death's-herb
(Death's"-herb`) n. The deadly nightshade Dr. Prior.
Deathsman
(Deaths"man) n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.
Deathward
(Death"ward) adv. Toward death.
Deathwatch
(Death"watch`) n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small beetle By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound,
which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage
death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; —
called also deathtick.
She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches.
Addison.
I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat.
Tennyson. 2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Deaurate
(De*au"rate) a. [L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.] Gilded. [Obs.]
Deaurate
(De*au"rate) v. t. To gild. [Obs.] Bailey.
Deauration
(De`au*ra"tion) n. Act of gilding. [Obs.]
Deave
(Deave) v. t. [See Deafen.] To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]
Debacchate
(De*bac"chate) v. i. [L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage
like a bacchant.] To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.
