Noun

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(archaic) A corpse or dead body.

* {{quote-book

, year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Poul Anderson , title=Time Patrolman , chapter= , url= , genre=Sci-Fi , publisher= , isbn=9780812530766 , page= , passage=She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich . }}

(fantasy, roleplay) A reanimated corpse or undead being.

*1974 , (Karl Edward Wagner), ‘Sticks’:

*:It was a lich ’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.