deathling

A mortal; one who will die.

God gives and takes away your breath: What more have ye? Breath is your life, and life your soul; Ye have it warm from His kind hands: Then yield it back to the great Whole When He demands. Why, deathling, wilt thou long for Heaven?

But for us, let us hearken the counsel of Zeus most high, and obey, Who over the deathling race and the deathless beareth sway.

A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death.

The interest of his realm had need That death should get a numerous breed; Young deathlings, who by practice made Proficient in their father's trade

Meanwhile most of the deathling troop had rustled past them and fallen on the Taians.

A dead child.

In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said " Good," and, of course, the deathling in the bed.

The old mother grieves her deathling.