death (first in S. as an exclamation H8 I. iii. 13)
1.
“the
death”: a common idiom in earlier
English
Err. I. i. 146
“adjudged to the ,”
MND. I. i. 65, R2 III. i. 29, H5 IV. i. 184,
R3 I. ii. 179
“beg the ”
; also in phrases still current “die the , to the , be the death
of.”
2.
skeleton, or skull
Mer.V. II. vii. 63
“A carrion ,”
John V. ii. 177
“A bare-ribb'd ”
; cf. “d-'s face”
LLL. V. ii. 613, “death's-head”
Mer.V. I. ii.
55.
