Bible Dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary

Death

(1):

(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

(2):

(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

(3):

(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

(4):

(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

(5):

(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

(6):

(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

(7):

(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

(8):

(v. i.) Danger of death.

(9):

(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.