Definition of "murthering" []

• Present participle of murther. (verb)

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• ""murthering" the quail, "often in the angles of the fences where the motion of the wind prevents the snow from settling, I carry them both chaff and grain: the one to feed them, the other to prevent their tender feet from freezing fast to the earth as I have frequently observed them to do.""
• "God, and bring him in saying, I will descend, and be like the prince of darkness; and what is it better, to make the cause of religion to descend, to the cruel and execrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments?"
• "Which being done, they set forward against Russia, and made foule hauocke there, destroying cities and castles and murthering the people."