Dead-pay

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dead-pay \Dead"-pay`\, n.
     Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names
     are kept on the rolls.
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           O you commanders,


           That, like me, have no dead-pays.        --Massinger.
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