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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Dead-pay

· Dead·-pay · IPA
01 n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
  1. 1.
    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.