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Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

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  1. a. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
  2. n. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
  3. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
  4. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation;that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
  5. n euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)