(often, capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
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When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
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And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sat on him was Death"
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1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:8:
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[T]o thoſe, Jonathan, who know what death is, and what havock and deſtruction he can make, before a man can well wheel about—'tis like a whole age.
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1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 51: