Vampire: alternatives and connections

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended se…

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to as…

In the sleep of the grave; dead.

the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood ca…

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contac…

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a…

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the…

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, th…

Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the…