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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

dead-pay ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dead-pays)

Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
- Massinger
  O you commanders, / That, like me, have no dead-pays.
A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.