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messenger of death en · NOUN

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1. A figure or entity that presages death.
2. (literary) An arrow, bomb, bullet, etc., that causes or is intended to cause death when fired.
   • Tarzan had placed the finest marksmen of the tribe in the surrounding trees, with directions never to reveal themselves while the enemy was faced in their direction. As a black released his messenger of death he would slink behind the sheltering stem of the tree he had selected, nor would he again aim until a watchful eye told him that none was looking toward his tree. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page messenger of death138:

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