The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dead-pay
Dead-pay \Dead"-pay`\, n. 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.
Wiktionary
dead-pay
n. 1 pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. 2 A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.