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Dead-pay
Pronunciation : Dead"-pay`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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