Death

deth, n. Ce ation of bodily life decease de- mise; di olution; exit; total privation or lo ; manner of dying cause, agent, or instrument of lo of life; a skeleton, as the symbol of death danger of death. [AS. dearth, D. doort, Dan. and Sw. dod, Ic. daud hi, Goth, dauthus, G. tod. See Dead.] — Civil death. Separation of a man from civil society or enjoyment of civil rights, as by outlawry, banishment, entering into a monastery, etc. —Death's door. A near approach to death. — Spiritual death. (Script.} Corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the lo of the favor of God.— Deathle , — a. Not subject to death or destruction; immortal. Death 'ly, a. Resembling death or a dead body; deadly; fatal. — Death'-bed, n. The bed on which one dies; the closing hours of rate, n. The ratio of the number of deaths to the population.— -rattle,—n. A rattling in the throat of a dying person. warrant, n. (Law.) —An official order for the execution of a criminal. watch, n. An insect that makes a ticking noise, vulgarly thought to prognosticate death. — Death's '-head, A figure representing a human skull. man, n. pi. -men. An executioner hangman.