Word Meanings - HELLHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HELLHOUND)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• HELLHOUND
  A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• DEATHLESS
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• DEATHBLOW
  A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
• DEATHFUL
  1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• AGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
• DEATHBIRD
  Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl ; -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
• DEATH'S-HEAD
  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 , a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• UNDERAGENT
  A subordinate agent.
• REAGENT
  A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
• COAGENT
  An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.