Black death
() A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. |
Blow
(v. i.) To flower |
Blow
(v. t.) To cause to blossom |
Blow
(n.) A blossom |
Blow
(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. |
Blow
(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort |
Blow
(n.) The infliction of evil |
Blow
(v. i.) To produce a current of air |
Blow
(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. |
Blow
(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick |
Blow
(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. |
Blow
(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. |
Blow
(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind |
Blow
(v. i.) To talk loudly |
Blow
(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means |
Blow
(v. t.) To drive by a current air |
Blow
(v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise |
Blow
(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through |
Blow
(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion |
Blow
(v. t.) To spread by report |
Blow
(v. t.) To form by inflation |
Blow
(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride |
Blow
(v. t.) To put out of breath |
Blow
(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.). |
Blow
(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind |
Blow
(n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument |
Blow
(n.) The spouting of a whale. |
Blow
(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. |
Blow
(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. |
Blow-off
(n.) A blowing off steam, water, etc. |
Blow-off
(adj.) as, a blow-off cock or pipe. |
Blow-off
(adj.) An outburst of temper or excitement. |
Blow-out
(n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam. |
Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
By-blow
(n.) A side or incidental blow |
By-blow
(n.) An illegitimate child |
Death
(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. |
Death
(v. i.) Total privation or loss |
Death
(v. i.) Manner of dying |
Death
(v. i.) Cause of loss of life. |
Death
(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. |
Death
(v. i.) Danger of death. |
Death
(v. i.) Murder |
Death
(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life. |
Death
(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death. |
Deathblow
(n.) A mortal or crushing blow |
Death's-head
(n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death |
Death's-herb
(n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). |
killing
kill
putting to death | the act of terminating a life |
deathblow
coup de grace | the blow that kills (usually mercifully) |
| death | the act of killing, he had two deaths on his conscience |
attainder
civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
danse macabre
dance of death | a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave |
| blow puff | forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth, he gave his nose a loud blow, he blew out all the candles with a single puff |
execution
executing
capital punishment
death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
| blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon, a blow on the head |
death adder
Acanthophis antarcticus | venomous Australian snake resembling an adder |
blowfly
blow fly | large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly, lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds |
death's-head moth
Acherontia atropos | European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull |
blowgun
blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube
blow tube
blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
coke
blow
nose candy
snow
C | street names for cocaine |
| death camp | a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed |
death house
death row | the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution |
death knell
death bell | a bell rung to announce a death |
| death mask | a cast taken from the face of a dead person |
| death seat | the car seat beside the driver of an automobile, believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident |
electric chair
chair death chair
hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
gas chamber
death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
| death toll | the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster |
| death warrant | a warrant to execute the death sentence |
| low blow | unscrupulous abuse |
| death's head | a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death |
| death knell | an omen of death or destruction |
| near-death experience | the experience of being close to death but surviving |
| shock blow | an unpleasant or disappointing surprise, it came as a shock to learn that he was injured |
| kiss of death | something that is ruinous, if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career |
fatality
human death | a death resulting from an accident or a disaster, a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities |
| wrongful death | a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence, a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs |
blow
bump | an impact (as from a collision), the bump threw him off the bicycle |
death
decease
expiry | the event of dying or departure from life, her death came as a terrible shock, upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren |
killing
violent death | an event that causes someone to die |
| reverse reversal setback blow black eye | an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes, something that is thwarting or frustrating |
| death squad | a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval) |
| Death Valley | a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada, contains the lowest point in North America |
death instinct
death wish
Thanatos | (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die |
| Death | the personification of death, Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city |
bastard by-blow
love child
illegitimate child
illegitimate
whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
John Doe Joe Blow
Joe Bloggs
man in the street | a hypothetical average man |
| death | the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism, the animal died a painful death |
gust
blast
blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
necrobiosis
cell death | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) |
apoptosis
programmed cell death
caspase-mediated cell death | a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself, a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival |
brain death
cerebral death | death when respiration and other reflexes are absent, consciousness is gone, organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops |
death camas
zigadene | any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers, all are poisonous |
grassy death camas
Zigadenus venenosus
Zigadenus venenosus gramineus | plant of western North America to Mexico, poisonous especially to grazing animals |
death cap
death cup
death angel
destroying angel Amanita phalloides | extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base, differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills |