kid 1, noun (oh) and death (iou)

kid 1, noun (oh)

[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old Norse; Origin: kith]
[C] informal a child
::She'd always loved animals since she was a little kid .
::He's married with three kids.
::A neighbor volunteered to keep an eye on the kids (=their children or the children they are responsible for) .
[C] informal a young person
::college kids
[C usually singular] used by adults to address a person who is younger than them
::Hey kid, come here.
kid's stuff
also kid stuff AmE something that is too easy or boring
::Pokemon? Oh boy, that is kid stuff!
a) [C] a young goat
b) [U] very soft leather made from the skin of a young goat
::a pair of white kid boots
kid gloves
a way of treating someone kindly and carefully because they easily become upset
treat/handle sb with kid gloves
::I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She's still upset about her father.

death (iou)

death noun. .
[Old English deaT = Old Frisian dath, Old Saxon doT (Dutch dood), Old High German tod (German Tod), Old Norse dauer, Gothic dauTus, from Germanic base ult. also of DIE verb1: see -TH1.]
The act or fact of dying; the end of life; the final and irreversible cessation of the vital functions of an animal or plant. OE.
J. R. Seeley The Greek did not believe death to be annihilation. Day Lewis My mother's untimely death. C. V. Wedgwood The hideous death designed by the law for traitors. personified: Milton Over them triumphant Death his Dart Shook; but delaid to strike. Tennyson Into the jaws of Death..Rode the six hundred.
b. An instance of a person's dying. E18.
c. Cessation of life in a particular part or tissue. E19.
The state of being dead; the state or condition of being without life, animation, or activity. OE.
Oxford English Dictionary His eyes were closed in death.
transf. & fig.
a. The lack or loss of spiritual life; the loss or deprivation of particular rights, privileges, etc. (chiefly in civil death below). OE.
Bible (Tyndale): Romans 8:6 To be carnally mynded, is deeth.
b. The ceasing to be, extinction, or annihilation of something. LME.
Shelley From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
A cause or occasion of death; something that kills or renders liable to death; an offence punishable by death (for a person to do something); poet. a deadly weapon, poison, etc. OE.
Pope The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death. Goldsmith A school would be his death.
A General mortality caused by an epidemic disease; plague, pestilence. Now chiefly in Black Death (see BLACK adjective). LME.
R. Holinshed A great death of the pestilence reigned in London.
Hunting. A note sounded on the horn at the death of the quarry; the mort. LME-M18.
Bloodshed, slaughter, murder. arch. E17.
Bacon Not to suffer a man of death to live.
As interjection. Expr. vehement anger, surprise, etc. Cf. 'SDEATH. arch. E17.
Shakespeare Othello Death and damnation! O!
Phrases: a fate worse than death arch. (euphem. or joc.) being raped; seduction. as sure as death colloq. quite certain(ly). at death's door in imminent danger of or very close to death through illness etc. be death on slang be skilful at killing (prey etc.) or dealing with. be the death of cause the death of (freq. hyperbol.). Black Death: see BLACK adjective. brain death: see BRAIN noun. catch one's death (of cold) colloq. contract a fatal chill etc. (usu. hyperbol.). civil death the loss of a citizen's privileges through outlawry, banishment, etc. clinical death: see CLINICAL 1. Dance of Death: see Dance noun. die the death: see DIE verb1. do to death (a) arch. kill; (b) fig. overdo, repeat too frequently. everlasting death damnation. flog to death: see FLOG verb. in at the death present in the hunting-field etc. when the quarry is killed; gen. present at the ending of any enterprise. like death warmed up slang notably ill or exhausted in appearance. like grim death with all one's strength. living death: see LIVING adjective. put to death kill, esp. execute. sudden death: see SUDDEN adjective. the gate of death, the gates of death: see GATE noun1. the kiss of death: see KISS noun. the valley of the shadow of death, the shadow of death: see SHADOW noun. to death (a) so as to kill or be killed, esp. in a specified way, as burn to death, stone to death, etc. (see also do to death, put to death above); fatally, mortally; (b) fig. utterly, at or beyond the point of endurance, to excess, (as scared to death, sick to death, tickled to death, tired to death; see also worked to death below). to the death = to death above: now only lit., (fight, pursue, etc.) until death results. Wall of Death: see WALL noun1. white death: see WHITE adjective. worked to death fig. hackneyed. worse than death arch. = a fate worse than death above.
Comb.: death adder (a) dial. the deaf adder; (b) any of various venomous elapid snakes of the genus Acanthophis; esp. a thick-bodied Australian snake, A. antarcticus; deathbed (a) the grave; (b) the bed etc. on which a person died or will die (deathbed repentance etc., a last-minute change of conduct or policy); death-bell a passing-bell; death-bird a carrion bird, a bird associated with or presaging death; deathblow a blow etc. that causes death (lit. & fig.); death cap the poisonous toadstool Amanita phalloides; death cell a condemned cell, a cell occupied by a prisoner condemned to death; death certificate an official document stating the time, place, cause, etc., of a person's death; death cup = death cap above; death-day (the anniversary of) the day of a person's death; death-dealing adjective lethal; death duties, death duty Hist. & colloq. tax levied on a dead person's estate; death-fire = corpse-candle (a) s.v. CORPSE noun; death futures US colloq. life insurance policies of terminally ill people, purchased by a third party at less than their mature value as a form of short-term investment: cf. viatical settlement; death grant a statutory payment towards funeral expenses made by the State to the appropriate relative of a dead person; death-head = death's head (a) below; death house (a) a place where someone has died; (b) US a group of death cells; death-in-life life that lacks any satisfaction or purpose, living death; death-knell the tolling of a bell to mark a person's death; fig. an event etc. that heralds the end of something; death-mask a cast taken of a dead person's face; death metal a form of heavy metal Music with lyrics preoccupied with death, suffering, and destruction; death-or-glory adjective brave to the point of foolhardiness, dashing, reckless (Death-or-Glory Boys, in the British army, the 17th Regiment of Lancers); death penalty the penalty of death, capital punishment; death-place the place where a person died or will die; death rate the ratio of the number of deaths to the population, usu. calculated per thousand of population per year; death-rattle a rattling sound in a dying person's throat; death-ray a ray (imaginary or actual) capable of killing; death-roll a list or the number of those killed in an accident, a battle, an epidemic, etc.; death row US colloq. the area of a prison where prisoners under sentence of death are confined; death's face = death's head (a) below; death's head (a) (a figure or representation of) a skull, esp. as an emblem of mortality; (b) death's head hawkmoth, death's head moth, a large dark hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, having pale markings on the back of the thorax resembling a skull; death-sick adjective mortally ill; deathsman arch. an executioner; death-song [cf. German Todesgesang, Totengesang] a song sung immediately prior to one's death or the death of another, or to commemorate the dead; death-stricken, death-struck adjectives (arch.) subject to a mortal illness, wound, etc.; death tax US = death duty above; death throe(s) the final violent anguish, struggle, etc., of a dying person or animal or fig. of a custom, practice, etc., coming to an end; death-toll = death-roll above; death-trap an unsuspectedly unhealthy or dangerous place, structure, etc.; death-warrant a warrant for the execution of a convicted person; fig. any action etc. which signals the abolition or end of a custom, practice, etc.; death-watch (a) any of various insects making a sound like a watch ticking, once supposed to portend death; spec. (in full death-watch beetle) a beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, whose larvae bore in old wood and are notably destructive to house timbers, furniture, etc.; (b) a vigil kept beside a dying person; death-wish [translating German Todeswunsch] a wish, esp. an unconscious wish, for the death of oneself or another; death-wound a mortal wound.
deathlike adjective (a) deadly, fatal; (b) resembling death: M16.
deathling noun (rare) a person subject to death, a mortal L16.

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