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Word Meanings - HELLHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • HELLHOUND
    A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • DEATHWATCH
    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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • AGENT
    Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
  • DEATH
    Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
  • AGENTSHIP
    Agency. Beau. & Fl.
  • DEATHFULNESS
    Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEATH'S-HERB
    The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
  • DEATHBED
    The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
  • DEATHLESS
    Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
  • DEATHSMAN
    An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
  • DEATHBLOW
    A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
  • DEATHFUL
    1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • AGENTIAL
    Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
  • DEATHBIRD
    Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl ; -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
  • DEATH'S-HEAD
    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 , a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so
  • INTERAGENT
    An intermediate agent.
  • SUBAGENT
    A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
  • UNDERAGENT
    A subordinate agent.
  • REAGENT
    A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
  • COAGENT
    An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

 

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