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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Hŏm'i-cīde, n.

noun

n. [Fr., Pr. homicidi, Sp. & Pg. homicidio, It. omicidio, Lat. homicidium; from homo, man, and cædere, to cut, kill.]

  1. The killing of any human being by the act of man. This is of three kinds—justifiable, excusable, and felonious: the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Tomlins. Bouvier.
  2. A person who kills another; a manslayer. Dryden.