rigor mortis

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rigor mortisnoun

  • 1

    Temporary stiffness of the body's muscles and joints following death.

    • Such are the principal phenomena observed during that form of contraction which I conceive to be analogous to the rigor mortis...
    • Then we carried in poor Austin from the yard. His muscles were set as hard as a board in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.

rigor mortisverb

  • 1

    To stiffen the muscles and joints with, or as if with, rigor mortis.

    • As Olive was in the kitchen making some tea I asked what kind of louse the host was. “The kind you like to see laying out on a mortuary slab rigor mortising before the introduction.”
    • Hands / Responding to bold brain waves, / Hiding feelings, / Twiddling facts, / Dating destinies, / Doting on things, / Withering in death traps, / Snapping brittle, / Folding stiffly / When movement ceases / And rigor mortises the joints.

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