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flyswat
An implement with a flat part a mesh of metal or plastic and a long handle used to kill insects by striking them The handle is typically about one foot long and the flat mesh at the
electrocutioner
an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person
Parenticide
Parenticide [fr. parens Lat., a father, and c'do, to kill], one who murders a parent.
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Quell
To take the life of to kill
VerbarKalmia
American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers Called also mountain laurel ivy bush lamb kill calico bush etc
Slay
To put to death with a weapon or by violence hence to kill to put an end to to destroy
Flem
Flem [fr. flean, Sax., to kill], an outlaw.
Necessity, homicide by
some unavoidable necessity, without any will, intention, or desire, and without any inadvertence or negligence in the party killing, and therefore without any shadow of blame. As, for instance, by virtue of such an office as obliges
Birds
(1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not
Murder
It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either express or implied'; see 4 Bl. Com. 195. Consult
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