| Acheron | [pron: 'akeron] Underworld abyss and river, which souls of the dead must cross |
| appal | turn pale, terrify, dismay |
| araise | raise from the dead, awake from the grave |
| blank | make pale, blanch, drain (colour) |
| bleak | pale, pallid, sickly |
| breathless | lifeless, dead |
| carrion | dead putrifying flesh, rotting carcass |
| change | change countenance, turn pale |
| Charon | [pron: 'kairon] guardian of the Underworld; ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the River Acheron |
| Cocytus | [pron: ko'siytus] one of the mythological rivers of the underworld, which souls of the dead must cross |
| corpse | body of a man, dead body |
| corse | corpse, dead body |
| dead | mortal, deadly, fatal |
| dead | death-like, lifeless, spiritless |
| dead | deadly, death-dealing, murderous |
| dead | condemned to death, to be put to death |
| dead | deprived of life, killed |
| dead | dying, near to death |
| dead | deadly, dire, grave |
| dead men's fingers | [unclear] probably a type of wild orchis |
| dead-killing | mortal, deadly, fatal |
| defunct | dead person, deceased |
| dim | dull, pale-coloured, lacking lustre |
| ditch-dog | dead dog thrown in a ditch |
| down | dead on the ground |
| drunk asleep | in a drunken stupour, dead drunk |
| dull | dead, lifeless, sluggish, inactive |
| earthly | pale, earth-coloured, lifeless as earth |
| earthy | pale, earth-coloured, lifeless as earth |
| expired | ended, finished, dead |
| faint | pale, lightly coloured |
| fair | pale, of light complexion |
| fallow | fawn-coloured, pale brown |
| flesh-fly | fly that lays its eggs in dead flesh |
| ghost | corpse, dead body |
| lie | be killed, find oneself dead |
| linen | pale, pallid, bleached |
| maid-pale | fragile as a young girl, delicate |
| mortified | deadened, dead to feeling, numbed |
| mortified | dead to earthly pleasures, insensible to worldly desires |
| mummy | dead flesh, pulp |
| obsequiously | as a mourner, with proper regard for the dead |
| pale | fence, paling, enclosure |
| pale | dim, make pale |
| pale | wan, fearful, pale-hearted |
| pale | fenced land, park, enclosure |
| pale | paleness, pallor [of the cheeks] |
| pale | enclose, surround, encompass |
| pale | fence in, hem in, enclose |
| paled | pale, white, colourless |
| pale-visaged | pale-faced |
| paly | pale, faint |
| per Stygia | I am carried across the Styx, through the shades of the dead |
| quarry | [in hunting] heap of dead, pile of bodies |
| sick | pale, wan, of a sickly hue |
| tallow-face | [contemptuous] face as pale as wax |
| umbrage | shadow, pale semblance |
| vaded | faded, made pale, with lost brightness |
| wan | grow pale, turn pale |
| wanny | wan, pallid, pale |
| whitely | pale-complexioned, light-skinned |