Definition of "Death"

Death

proper noun
1. The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
  Quotations
  7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Revelation 6:7–8
  Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
  1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], page 137
  He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.
  1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide