dead march (dedmarch)

A piece of solemn music played in funeral proce ions, especially at military funerals: as, the dead - march in Handel's oratorio of Saul. Hush, the Dead - March wails in a people's ears: The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears: The black earth yawns: the mortal disappears. Tennyson, Death of Wellington. dead-men's-bells (ded' menz-belz'), n. foxglove, is purpure a . dead-men's-fingers (ded' menz - fing'- gérz), n. 1. The hand-orchis, Orchis maculata : so called from its pale hand- like tubers. The name is also given to other species of Orchis and to some other plants. Our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. Shak ., Hamlet, iv. 7. 2. An alcyonarian or halcyonoid polyp of the order Alcyo naceæ, family Alcyo niida , and genus Al cyonium, as A. dig i tatum. Also called The He mounted and set out. Dead-men's-fingers (Alcyonium digitatum). sometimes fitted before the bars of a furnace, for the purpose of causing bituminous coal to a ume the character of coke before it is thrust See dead -center. back into the fire. dead-pledge (ded'plej), n. A mortgage or pawning of lands or goods, or the thing pawned. dead-point (ded'point), n. dead-reckoning (ded'rek"n-ing), n. Naut., the calculation of a ship's place at sea, independently of observations of the heavenly bodies, and simply from the distance she has run by the log and the courses steered by the compa , this being rectified by due allowances for drift, leeway, etc. dead-rise (ded'rīz), n. In ship - building, the distance between a horizontal line joining the top of the floor-timbers amidships and the top of the keel. dead-rising (ded' ri" zing), n. Same as dead rise.