murdering pie cet (merde ring pes)

1t. O my dear Gertrude, this, Like to a murdering - piece , in many places Gives me superfluous death. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. 95. A father's curses hit far off, and kill too; And, like a murdering - piece , aim not at one, But all that stand within the dangerous level. Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. 2. 2. pl. Bits of old iron, nails, etc., with which a gun was loaded to sweep the decks of an enemy's murder ment (mer'der-ment), ship. Also murdering -shot. Bailey, 1731. IMG:content-1106.png:[blocks in formation] causing death within a year and a day there- 2. Guilty of murder; delighting in murder. after, with premeditated malice. IMG:content-1107.png:[blocks in formation] Enforced to fly Thence into Egypt, till the murderous king Were dead who sought his life. Milton , P. R., ii. 76. 3. Characterized by murder or bloody cruelty. Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 49. 4. Very brutal, cruel, or destructive. =Syn. Sanguinary, bloodthirsty, blood-guilty, fell, savage. murderously (mer'der-us-li), adv. In a murderous or bloody manner. murdre (mèr'dres), n. [