Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
To convey; to give.
To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
Cause of loss of life.
Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Danger of death.
Murder; murderous character.
Loss of spiritual life.
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
