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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>dearness</b> of friendship. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dearth</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>Dearth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>derthe</ets>, fr. <ets>dere</ets>. See <er>Dear</er>.]</ety> <def>Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.</def>

<blockquote>There came a <b>dearth</b> over all the land of Egypt. <i>Acts vii. 11.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He with her press'd, she faint with <b>dearth</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Dearth</b> of plot, and narrowness of imagination. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dearticulate</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>De`ar*tic"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To disjoint.</def>

<h1>Dearworth</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>Dear"worth`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Derworth</er>.]</ety> <def>Precious.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Piers Plowman.</i>

<h1>Deary</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>Dear"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dear; a darling.</def> <mark>[Familiar]</mark>

<h1>Deas</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>De"as</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Dais</er>.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Death</h1> <Xpage=373>

<hw>Death</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>deth</ets>, <ets>dea<?/</ets>, AS. <ets>de\'a0<?/</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>d<?/<?/</ets>, D. <ets>dood</ets>, G. <ets>tod</ets>, Icel. <ets>dau<?/i</ets>, Sw. & Dan. <ets>d\'94d</ets>, Goth. <ets>daupus</ets>; from a verb meaning <ets>to die</ets>. See <er>Die</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, and cf. <er>Dead</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Local death</i> is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. <i>General death</i> is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (<i>somatic</i> or <i>systemic</i> death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. <i>Huxley.</i></note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; <as>as, the <ex>death</ex> of memory</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>death</b> of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. <i>J. Peile.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>death</b> that I abhor. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let me die the <b>death</b> of the righteous. <i>Num. xxiii. 10.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Cause of loss of life.</def>

<blockquote>Swiftly flies the feathered <b>death</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He caught his <b>death</b> the last county sessions. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>