Dead″–pay′ (?), n. 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.