DEATHLINESS
Death"li*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
DEATHLY
Death"ly, a.
Defn: Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
DEATHLY
Death"ly, adv.
Defn: Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
DEATH'S-HEAD
Death's"-head`, n.
Defn: 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 (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; — called also death's-head sphinx.
DEATH'S-HERB
Death's"-herb`, n.
Defn: The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.