Daughterliness (da'tér-li-nes), n. The state of a daughter; the conduct becoming a daughter. Dr. H More. Daughterly (da'tèr-li), a. Becoming a daughter; dutiful. Your very daughterly dealing. Sir T. More. Dauk (dak), n. Same as Dawk. Daunt (dant), v.t. [O. Fr. danter, now dompter, to tame, from L. domitare, a freq. of domo, to tame Akin Sc. danton.] 1. To repress or subdue the courage of; to intimidate; to dishearten; to check by fear of danger. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanville. 2. To conquer. That ne with love may daunted be." Chaucer. Daunter (dant'èr), n. One who daunts. Dauntless (dant'les), a. Bold; fearless; intrepid; not timid; not discouraged; as, a dauntless hero; a dauntless spirit. Fearless The dauntless spirit of resolution. Shak. Dauntless he rose and to the fight returned. Dryden. Dauntlessly (dantles-li), adv. In a bold fearless manner. Dauntlessness (dant'les-nes), n. ness; intrepidity. Dauphin (da'fin), n. [Fr. dauphin, Pr. dalfin, L. delphinus, Gr. delphin, a dolphin, the crest of the lords of Dauphiny. A name assumed towards the middle of the ninth century by the lord of the French province of Dauphiny, which was bequeathed by Humbert II. to the King of France in 1349, on condition that the heir of the throne should bear the title of Dauphin of Viennois.] The eldest son of the King of France prior to the revolution of 1830. Dauphine, Dauphiness (da'fen, da'fin-es), The wife or lady of the dauphin. Daur (dar), v. To dare. [Scotch.] Daut, Dawte (dat), v. t. The same as Dawt. Dauw (da), n. One of the South African zebras, the Equus Burchellii, a species only found on the plains. n. Davallia (da-valli-a), n. [From Edmund Davall, a Swiss botanist.] A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, having scaly creeping rhizomes, which feature has given rise to the name hare's-foot fern applied to D. canariensis. The fronds are sometimes pinnate, but more frequently pinnately decompound, elegantly cut into numerous small divisions, and bearing many fructifications, which form a series of cups or cysts at the margins of the sections. The genus is well marked by natural features, and is one of the most elegant found in our gardens. Davidist, David-Georgian (da'vid-ist, da'vid-jorj-i-an), n. One of a sect so called from David George, who, in the sixteenth century, gave out that he was the Messiah, rejected marriage, and denied the resurrection. Davidsonite (da'vid-son-it), n. A mineral, a variety of beryl, discovered by Dr. Davidson in the granite quarry of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen. It consists principally of silicates of alumina and glucina, with a little iron. David's Staff (da'vidz staf), n. A kind of quadrant formerly used in navigation. Davina, Davyne (da-vi'na, da'vin), n. A Vesuvian mineral, a variety of nepheline, of a hexahedral 668 boats by means of sheave and pulley. They are fixed so as to admit of being shipped and unshipped at pleasure.-Fish-davit, a spar with a roller or sheave at its end used for fishing the anchor. Davite (da'vit), n. [After Sir H. Davy.] A sulphate of alumina found in a warm spring near Bogota in Colombia. It occurs massive, is of a fine fibrous structure, a white colour and silky lustre, and is very soluble. Davy Jones (da'vi jōnz), n. [Said to be from Duffy, the name for a ghost or spirit among the negroes of the West Indies, and Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea.] Naut. the spirit of the sea; a nikker; a sea-devil.-Davy Jones' locker, the ocean; specifically, the ocean regarded as the grave of all who perish at sea. This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy-lamp, Davy's Lamp (da'vi-lamp, da'viz lamp), n. In mining, a lamp whose flame is surrounded with wire, invented by Sir Humphry Davy to protect the miners from explosions of fire-damp. Called also Safety-lamp (which see). Davyum (da'vi-um), n. [After Sir H. Davy.] A metal of the platinum group discovered in 1877 by Sergius Kern of St. Petersburg, in separating the metals rhodium and iridium from some platinum ores. It is a hard silvery metal, slightly ductile, extremely infusible, and has a density of 9:385 at 25° C. Daw (da). n. [From cry.] A jackdaw. The windy clamour of the daws." Tennyson. Daw (da), v.i. To dawn. 'The morning daws. Drayton. 'The cock may craw, the day may daw.' Burns. [Old English and Scotch.] Daw (da), v. i. [See Do, in sense of to fare.] To thrive; to prosper; to recover health. [Scotch.] Dawt (da), v. t. [Contr. for adaw (which see).] To daunt; to frighten. You daw him too much, in troth, sir. B. Jonson. Daw-cockt (da'kok), n. A male daw; a jackdaw; hence, fig. an empty chattering fellow. Dawd (dad), n. A large piece, as of bread, cheese, &c. [Scotch.] An' cheese an' bread, frae women's laps, An' dawds that day. Burns. Dawdle (da'dl), v. i. [Akin to daddle, and probably to dowdy, a slattern. See DOWDY.] To waste time; to trifle; to saunter. 'Dawdle up and down Pall-Mall.' Thackeray. Dawdle (da'dl), v.t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole forenoon. Dawdle (da'dl), n. A trifler; a dawdler. Dawdler (da'dler), n. One who dawdles; a trifler. Daw-dressing (da'dres-ing), n. The assumption of qualities one is not entitled to; the assumption of the thoughts or actions of another as one's own: from the fable of the daw that dressed itself with peacock's feathers. They would deem themselves disgraced had they been guilty, even in thought, of a simulation similar to this-howbeit not in danger of being ignominiously plucked for so contemptible a daw-dressing. Sir W. Hamilton. Dawdy (da'di), n. A slattern, especially one who affects finery; a dowdy. Dawe,t n. A day. Chaucer. Dawing (da'ing), n. The dawn; the dawning. [Scotch.] Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing. Old ballad. Dawish (da'ish), adv. Like a daw. Dawk (dak), n. A hollow or incision in timber. Dawk (dak), v.t. To cut or mark with an incision. Dawk (dak), n. [Hind. dak, a post.] In the East Indies, the post; a relay of men, as for carrying letters, despatches, &c., or travellers in palanquins. The route is divided into stages, and each bearer or set of bearers serves only for a single stage. In some places there are horse-dawks or mounted runners.-Dawk-bungalow, a house at the end of a stage designed for those who journey by palanquin. -To travel dawk, to journey in palanquins carried by relays of men or by government post-waggons. Dawm (dam), n. An East Indian copper coin of the value of one-fortieth of a rupee. Dawn (dan), v.i. [A. Sax. dagian, to dawn DAY or become day, from dæg, day. Dagian regularly produced daw, seen in O. E. and in Sc. daw, to dawn, but n was early introduced, hence O.E. dawnen, Mod. E. dawn.] 1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; as, the day dawns; the morning dauns. It began to dawn toward the first day of the week. Mat. xxvii. I Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid Heber. 2. To begin to open or expand; to begin to show intellectual light or knowledge; as, the genius of the youth begins to dawn. When life awakes and dawns at every line. Pete 3. To begin to become visible in consequence of more light shining upon; to begin to open or appear; as, the truth dawns upon me. I waited underneath the dawning hills. Tennyson. Dawn (dan), n. 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. Milton. 2. First opening or expansion; beginning; rise; first appearance; as, the dawn of genius, of intellect, &c. The dawn of time." Thom son. Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now. Byron. These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope. Dawning (dan'ing), n. 1. The first appearance of light in the morning. But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Campbell 2. First opening or appearance, as of intellectual powers; beginning; as, the first dawning of notions in the understanding. Moreover always in my mind I hear A cry from out the dawning of my life. Dawpate (da'pat), n. A simpleton. Dawt (dat), v.t. [Akin E. dote.] To regard or treat with affection; to pet; to caress; to fondle. [Scotch.] Much dawted by the gods is he, Tennyson. Successfu' ploughs the wally sea, And safe returns again. Ramsay. Dawtie (dat'i), n. A beloved child: a darling; a child much fondled through affection: frequently used as a term of endearment [Scotch.] Day (da), n. [A. Sax. dæg. Cog. D. Dan. and Sw.dag, Icel.dagr, Goth. dags, G. tag; not connected with L. dies, a day.] 1. That part of the time of the earth's revolution on its axis in which its surface is presented to the sun; that space of time during which it continues to be light in contradistinction to night, or that portion of time during which it is dark; but the space of time in which it is light being somewhat vague and indeterminate, the time between the rising and setting of the sun is usually termed the day, and constitutes what astronomers call the artificial day. And God called the light day.' Gen i. 5.-2. The whole time or period of one revolution of the earth on its axis, or twentyfour hours; called the natural day. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Gen. 1.5 In this sense the day may commence at any period of the revolution. The Babylonians began the day at sun-rising; the Jews at sun-setting; the Egyptians at midnight, as do several nations in modern times, the British, French, Spanish, American, &c. This day, in reference to civil transactions, is called the civil day. Thus with us the day when a legal instrument is dated begins and ends at midnight. In astron. a natural or solar day is usually considered to be the interval between the sun's leaving the meridian and his return to it. The length of this day is continually varying, owing to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic. A mean solar day is a mean of all the natural or solar days in the year. A sidereal day is the time of one apparent revolution of the fixed stars. It is uniformly equal to 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4:098 seconds.-3. Light; sunshine. Let us walk honestly as in the day. Rom. xiii 13 4. Time specified; any period of time distinguished from other time; age; time, with reference to the existence of a person or thing; as, he was a useful man in his day. In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. n. 17 In this sense the plural is often used; as from the days of the judges; in the days of our fathers. In this sense also the word is often equivalent to life or earthly existence. DAY 5. The contest of a day; battle; or day of combat; as, the day is our own. His name struck fear, his conduct won the day. Roscommon. 6. An appointed or fixed time. If my debtors do not keep their day. Dryden 7. Time of commemorating an event; anniversary; the same day of the month in any future year; as, George Heriot's day; St. Bartholomew's day- Day by day, daily; every lay; each day in succession; continually; without intermission of a day. Day by day we magnify thee. I Book of Common Prayer. But or only from day to day, without certainty of continuance; temporarily.-Today, on the present day; this day; or at the present time. One day, or one of these days, sometime hereafter; sooner or later. hope one day to see you fitted with a husband. Shak.-I have seen the day, a phrase implying that a person or circumstances were once different from what they are now. --Day of grace, (a) in theol. the time during which mercy is offered to sinners. Life is the season God hath given Scotch Scripture Paraphrase. (b) pl. In old English law, days granted by the court for delay at the prayer of the plaintiff or defendant; three days beyond the day named in the writ, in which the person summoned may appear and answer. (c) In com. a customary number of days, in Great Britain and America three, allowed for the payment of a note or bill of exchange after it becomes due. A note due on the seventh of the month is payable on the tenth. The days of grace are different in different countries.-Day in court, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit.-Day's journey, a somewhat loose mode of measuring distance in the East. The day's journey of a man on foot may be estimated at about 20 to 24 English miles, but if the journey is for many days, about 17. A day's journey on horseback may be taken at about 26 to 30 miles. In a caravan journey with camels the day's journey is about 30 miles for a short distance; but on an extended line somewhat less. The mean rate of the daily marches of armies is about 14 miles in a line of from eight to ten marches; but for a single march, or even two or three, the distance may be a mile or two longer.-Day's work, (a) the work of one day. (b) Naut. the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.— Days in bank, in England, days of appearance in the court of Common Bench Days in court are generally at the distance of about a week from each other, and have reference to some festival of the Church. On some one of these days in bank, all original writs must be made returnable. Day (da), n. [Supposed to be a corruption of bay. One of the compartments of a mullioned window. Daybed (da'bed), n. A bed used for rest during the day; a sofa. Having come down from a daybed where I have left Olivia sleeping. Shak. Dayblindness (da'blind-nes), n. The common name for the visual defect called nyctalopia, by which objects are seen only in the evening and at night. It is the opposite of day-sight. Called also Night-sight, Nocturnal-sight. Daybook (da'buk), n. A journal of accounts; a book in which are recorded the debts and credits or accounts of the day. Daybreak (da'brak), n. The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning. Daycoal (da'kol), n. A name given by miners to the upper stratum of coal, as being nearest the light or surface. Daydream (da'drēm), n. A reverie; a castle in the air; a visionary fancy indulged in when awake; an extravagant conceit of the fancy or imagination. Daydreamer (da'drēm-ér), n. One who indulges in daydreams; a fanciful sanguine schemer; one given to indulge in reveries or to building castles in the air. Daydreamy (da'drēm-i), a. Relating to or abounding in daydreams. [Rare.] Dayflower (da'flou-er), n. The popular name of a genus of plants, the Commelyna. Dayfly (da'fli), n. The popular name of those neuropterous insects which belong to 669 the genus Ephemera. They are so called because, though they may exist in the larval and pupal state for several years, in their perfect form they exist only from a few hours to a few days, taking no food, but only Dayfly (Ephemera vulgata). propagating their species and then dying. See EPHEME RIDE. Daylabour (dā'la-ber), n. Labour hired or performed by the day; stated or fixed labour. Doth God exact daylabour, light denied? Milton. Daylabourer (da'la-bèr-ér), n. One who works by the day. Daylight (da'lit), n. 1. The light of the day; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or of a lamp or candle.--2. The space left in a wine-glass between the liquor and the brim, and not allowed when bumpers are drunk, the toast-master calling out No daylights. [Slang.]-To burn daylight. See BURN. Day-lily (da'li-li), n. [So called because the beauty of its flowers rarely lasts over one day.] A genus of plants of the nat. order Liliacea, same as Hemerocallis (which see). Daylong (da'long), a. Lasting all day. All about the fields you caught Tennyson. His weary daylong chirping. Dayly (da'li), a. The more regular, but rarely used, orthography of Daily. Daymaid, Deymaidt (da'mad), n. [See DAIRY.] A dairymaid. Dayman (da'man), ". A daylabourer; one hired by the day. Daymare (da'mar), n. A species of incubus which occurs during waking hours, accompanied by the peculiar pressure on the chest experienced in nightmare. The dawn of the Daynet (da'net), n. A net for catching small birds, as larks, martins, &c. Daypeep (dā'pēp), n. morning. Milton. Dayroom (da'röm), n. A prison ward in which the prisoners are kept during the day. Day-rule, Day-writ (da'rol, da'rit), n. In law, formerly a rule or order of court, permitting a prisoner, in the King's Bench prison, &c., to go without the bounds of the prison for one day. Dayschool (da'sköl), n. A school taught during the day, in which the scholars are not boarded. Opposed to evening-school, boarding-school. Daysight (da'sit), n. Another term for hemeralopia or night-blindness, an affection of the vision, in which it is dull and confused in the dark, but clear and strong in the daylight. It is a defect arising from nervous irritability. Daysman (daz'man), n. [Lit. one who appoints a day for hearing a cause.] An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33The dawn; the beginning of the day; or first appearance of light. Dayspring (da'spring), n. us. Whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited Luke i. 78. Daystar (da'stär), n. 1. The morning star, Lucifer, Venus; the star which precedes the morning light.-2. The sun, as the orb of day. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. Milton. Daytime (da'tim), n. The time of the sun's light on the earth. A dairymaid. Daywoman (da'wum-an), n. [Rare.] Daywork (da'wèrk), n. 1. Work by the day; daylabour.-2. Work done during the day, as distinguished from that done during the night. Daze (daz), v. t. [The same word as Icel. dasa, to tire out; O.D. daesen, to be foolish. In A. Sax. dwaes, foolish, occurs. Akin dizzy, doze. Dare, as in 'to dare larks,' may perhaps be another form of daze.] To stun or stupefy, as with a blow, liquor, or excess of light; to dim or blind by too strong a light, or to render the sight of unsteady. Some flushed and others dazed, as one who wakes Half-blinded at the coming of a light. Tennyson. Daze (dáz), n. In mining, a glittering stone. Dazed (dazd), p. and a. Stunned; stupefied. 'Let us go,' said the one with a sullen dazed gloom in his face. Ouida. Dazied (da'zid), a. See DAISIED. Shak. Dazzle (daz'zl), v. t. pret. & pp. dazzled; ppr. DEACON dazzling [Freq. of daze.] 1. To overpower with light; to hinder distinct vision by intense light; to dim, as the sight by excess of light. Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear, 2. Fig. to overpower or confound by splendour or brilliancy, or with show or display of any kind. 'Dazzled and drove back his enemies.' Shak. Dazzle (daz'zl), v.i. 1. To be overpoweringly bright; as, the light dazzles.-2. Fig. to excite admiration by brilliancy, or any showy quality; as, her beauty dazzled rather than pleased. Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design. Pope. 3. To be overpowered by light; to shake or be unsteady; to waver, as the sight. I dare not trust these eyes; Dryden. They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise. Dazzle (daz'zl), n. 1. A dazzling light; glitter.-2. Fig. meretricious display; meretricious brilliancy. Moore. Dazzlement (daz'zl-ment), n. The act or power of dazzling. It beat back the sight with a dazzlement. Donne. Dazzler (daz'zler), n. One who or that which dazzles; specifically, a person who produces an effect by gaudy or meretricious display. Mr. Lumbey shook his head with great solemnity. as though to imply that he supposed she must have been rather a dazzler. Dickens. Dazzling (daz'zling), n. A popular name for a disturbance of vision, occasioned by a sudden impression of powerful light, or by an internal cause. Dazzlingly (daz'zling-li), adv. In a dazzling manner. D.D. An abbreviation of divinitatis doctor, doctor of divinity. De- (dě). A common prefix in English words, representing in most instances the Latin de, from, away from, down from, as in debark, deduct, detract, decamp, descend, decline. In some cases it represents the Latin dis or di, coming through the Fr. dé, as in deluge, Fr. déluge, L. diluvium; delay, Fr. délai, L. dilatum. In certain cases it has an intensifying power or no apparent power at all; as in deprave, despoil, deny. Deacon (de'kon), n. [L. diaconus, from Gr. diakonos, a minister or servant-dia, by, and koneō, to serve.] 1. Eccles. a person in the lowest degree of holy orders. The office of deacon was instituted by the apostles, and seven persons were chosen at first to serve at the feasts of Christians, and distribute bread and wine to the communicants, and to minister to the wants of the poor. In the Roman Catholic Church the office of the deacon is to incense the officiating priest, to lay the corporale on the altar, to receive the cup from the sub-deacon and present it to the person officiating, to incense the choir, to receive the pax from the officiating prelate, and carry it to the subdeacon, and at the pontifical mass to put the mitre on the bishop's head. In the Church of England the deacon is the lowest of the three orders of priesthood, these being bishops, priests, and deacons. The deacon may perform all the ordinary offices of the Christian priesthood except consecrating the elements at the administration of the Lord's Supper, and pronouncing the absolution. In Presbyterian churches the deacon's office is to attend to the secular interests, and in Independent churches it is the same, with the addition that he has to distribute the bread and wine to the communicants.-2. In Scotland, the president of an incorporated trade, who is the chairman of its meetings, Deacon, from Cloisters, Liége, 1460. DEACONESS and signs its records. Before the passing of the Burgh Reform Act the deacons of the crafts, or incorporated trades, in royal burghs, formed a constituent part of the town-council, and were understood to represent the trades as distinguished from the merchants and guild brethren; but by the terms of that act the deacons are no longer recognized as official and constituent members of the town council, but in other respects the rights and usages of the crafts are preserved, and are exercised without control on the part of the town council. The deacon-convener of the trades in Edinburgh and Glasgow still continues to be a constituent member of the town council. Deaconess (dé ́kon-es), n. 1. A female deacon in the primitive church.-2. The term for a kind of quasi sister-of-mercy among certain Continental and other Protestants. Lee. Deaconhood (de'kon-hyd), n. 1. The state or office of a deacon; deaconship.-2. A body of deacons taken collectively. Deaconry, Deaconship (de'kon-ri, de'konship), n. The office, dignity, or ministry of a deacon or deaconess. Dead (ded), a. [A. Sax. dead. See DEATH and DIE.] 1. Deprived or destitute of life; noting that state of a being or matter, animal or vegetable, in which the organs have ceased to perform their functions, and have become incapable of performing them, or of being restored to a state of activity; as, dead matter. The men are dead who sought thy life. Ex. iv. 19. 2 Indifferent; callous; inattentive; void of perception. That white dome of St. Mark's had uttered in the dead ear of Venice, Know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.' Ruskin. 3. Resembling death; deep or sound; as, a dead sleep.-4. Perfectly still; motionless as death; as, a dead calm.-5. Monotonous; unvarying; unbroken by apertures, projections, or irregularities; as, a dead level; a dead wall.-6. Unemployed; useless; unprofitable; as, a man's faculties may lie dead, or his goods remain dead on his hands. Dead capital or stock is capital or stock which produces no profit.-7. Dull; inactive; as, a dead sale of commodities. 8. Still; deep; obscure; as, the dead darkness of the night.-9. Producing no reverberation; dull; heavy; as, a dead sound. 10. Tasteless vapid;spiritless: used of liquors. 11. In a state of spiritual death; void of grace; lying under the power of sin.-12. Proceeding from corrupt nature, not from spiritual life or a gracious principle; unproductive of good works; as, dead faith; dead works. Heb. ix. 14.-13. Impotent; unable to procreate. Rom. iv. 19.-14. Producing death; sure or unerring as death; fixed; as, a dead certainty; a dead shot.-15. In law, cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.-16. Not communicating motion or power; as, dead steam; the dead spindle of a lathe.-17. In painting, applied (a) to a colour that has no gloss upon it, a condition generally produced by the use of less than the usual quantity of oil and more of turpentine; (b) to a colour that is not bright, such as gray.-Dead-beat or dead escapement, in clock-work, a peculiar kind of escapement, invented by Graham, about 1770, with a view to lessen the effect of the wheel-work on the motion of the pendulum. In this escapement the seconds index stands still after each drop, whence the name. See ESCAPEMENT.-Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and known only in writings, as Latin, Etruscan, and Sanskrit.-Dead-alive, or dead and alive, dull; inactive; moping. [Colloy Dead as a door-nail, utterly, completely dead. [Vulgar-Dead lock, (a) a lock which has no spring or catch. (b) A phrase expressive of the position of affairs when they have become so complicated or interlocked that they are at a complete stand-still, and no progress can be made with them.-Dead men, (a) bottles emptied at a banquet, carouse, &c. The general was remarkably addicted to huge car. ousals, and in one afternoon's campaign would leave more dead men on the field than he ever did in the whole course of his military career. W. Irving (b) Naut. the reef or gasket-ends carelessly left dangling under the yard when the sail is furled instead of being tucked in.-Dead men's shoes [Sc. dead men's shoon], a situation or possession formerly occupied by a 670 person who has died. Tis tedious waiting dead men's shoes.' Fletcher. And ye're e'en come back to Liberton to wait for dead men's shoon. Sir W. Scott. Dead (ded), n. 1. The time when there is a remarkable stillness or gloom; the culminating point, as the midst of winter or of night. At one time it was thought that an attack on Kensington House at dead of night might probably be successful. Macaulay. 2. [As a plural] Those who are dead; the deceased; the departed. This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead. Mat. xiv. 2. 3. pl. In mining, the substances which inclose the ore on every side. Dead (ded), v.i. To lose life or force. So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. Bacon. Dead (ded), v.t. To deprive of life, force, or vigour, to make dead; to dull. The sound may be extinguished or deaded.' Bacon. Dead (ded), adv. To a degree approaching death; to the last degree; thoroughly; totally; entirely; completely; as, dead beat. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. Dickens. Dead-angle (ded'ang-gl), n. In fort. the space in front of a parapet, which the soldiers within can neither fire upon nor see. Dead-beat (ded 'bet), n. 1. A dead-beat escapement. See under DEAD, a.-2. One who has completely failed in life; a loafer; a sharper. [United States.] Dead-bell (ded'bel), n. Same as Death-bell. Dead-centre, Dead-point (ded'sen-tér, ded'point), n. In mech. that position of the arms of a link-motion in which they coincide with the line of centres, that is to say, when the links are in the same straight line. Thus, when the crank and connectingrod of a steam-engine are in a straight line the situation is expressed by saying that the engine is on its (upper or lower) dead-centre, or that the crank is at its (long or short) dead-point. In Dead-colouring (ded 'kul-êr-ing), n. painting, the first layer of colours, usually some shade of gray, on which are superinduced the finishing colours. Dead-doing (ded'do-ing), a. Causing or inflicting death. Hold, O dear lord, your dead-doing hand. Spenser. Dead-door (ded'dōr), n. In ship-building, one of the doors fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, in case the quartergallery should be carried away. Deaden (ded'n), v.t. 1. To deprive of a portion of vigour, force, or sensibility; to abate the vigour or action of; as, to deaden the force of a ball; to deaden the natural powers or feelings. He that .. learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, Tennyson. 2. To retard; to lessen the velocity or momentum of; as, to deaden a ship's way, that is, to retard her progress.-3. To diminish the strength or spirit of; to make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine or beer.-4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to reduce the tone of; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. Oily marrow deadens the whiteness of the tissue. Deadener (ded'n-ér), n. A person or thing that deadens, checks, or represses. Incumbrances and deadeners of the harmony.' Landor. Dead-eye (ded'i), n. [Deadman's eye.] Naut. a round flattish wooden block, encircled by a rope or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard, used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Dead-flat (ded'flat), n. the name of a midship bend. Dead-freight (ded'frat), n. In mar, law, the sum paid as freight for the unoccupied space in a ship, where a merchant has freighted the whole ship and failed to supply a full cargo. In ship-building, Dead-ground (ded'ground), n. 1. In fort. same as Dead-angle (which see). —2. In mining, the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. Dead-head (ded'hed), n. 1. In founding, the extra length of metal given to a cast gun. It serves to contain the dross, which rises to the surface of the liquid metal, and which, were it not for the dead-head, would be at the muzzle of the gun. When cooled and solid, the dead-head is cut off.-2. Naut, a DEAD-MEN rough block of wood used as an anchorbuoy.-3. One who rides in a public conveyance, visits the theatre, or obtains anything of value, without payment. [United States) Dead-heat (ded'het), n. A race in which the runners come all to the winning post at the same time, so that no one is the winner. Dead-hedge (ded'hej), n. A hedge made with the prunings of trees, or with the tops of old hedges which have been cut down Dead-horse (ded'hors), n. Work the wages of which have been paid before it is executed. To pull the dead-horse, to work for wages already paid. [Trade slang.] Dead-house (ded'hous), 7. An apartment in a hospital or other institution where dead bodies are kept for a time. Deadish (ded'ish), a. Resembling what is dead; dull. [Rare.] Stafford The lips put on a deadisk paleness. Dead-letter (ded'let-tér), n. 1. A letter which lies for a certain period uncalled for at the post-office, or one which cannot be delivered from defect of address, and which is sent to the general post-office to be opened and returned to the writer.-2. Anything, as a condition, treaty, &c., which has lost its force or authority, by lapse of time or any other cause, and has ceased to be acted on; as, the treaty of 1856 has become a deadletter-Dead-letter office, a department of the general post-office where dead-letters are examined and disposed of. Dead-lift (ded'lift), n. A lift made in the most difficult circumstances, as of a dead body; hence, an extreme exigency. The state of the dead. And have no power at all, nor shift, To help itself at a dead-it. itudibras. Naut, a strong Dead-light (ded'lit), n. wooden port made to suit a cabin-window, in which it is fixed, to prevent the water from entering a ship in a storm. Deadlihood (ded li-hud), a [From deadly] Deadliness (ded'li-nes), n. The quality of being deadly. Dead-lock (dedlok), n. See under DEAD, α 1. That may occasion Deadly (ded′li), a. death; mortal; fatal; destructive; as, a deadly blow or wound. The deadly level of a gun. Shak.-2. Mortal; implacable. aiming to kill or destroy; as, a deadly enemy. deadly malice; a deadly feud. Thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly.' Shak. Liable to death; mortal. The image of a deadly man. Wycliffe, Rom. i. 23. Deadly (ded'li), adv. 1. In a manner resembling death; as, deadly pale or wan. 3. Deadly-nightshade (ded'li-nit-shad), " The popular name of the poisonous plant Atropa Belladonna, nat. order Solanace often found growing on the rubbish of old buildings and on waste ground about farmhouses. See BELLADONNA. Dead March (ded'march), n. A piece of solemn music played at funeral processions, especially those of military men. The piece now played at the funeral of British soldiers is the dead march from Handel's oratorio of Saul. Hush! The Dead March wails in a people's ears: The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tearst The black earth yawns: the mortal disappears Dead-meat (ded'mēt), n. The flesh of cattle, sheep, and pigs, slaughtered and ready for the market. Dead-men (ded'men), n. pl. See under DEAD, a. DEAD-NEAP Dead-neap (ded'nep), n. Naut. a low tide. Deadness (ded'nes), n. 1 The state of being dead; want of natural life or vital power in an animal or plant; as, the deadness of a limb, of a body, or of a tree.--2. Want of animation; dulness; languor; as, the deadness of the eye.--3. Want of warmth or ardour; coldness; frigidity; as, the deadness of the affections. The most curious phenomenon in all Venetian his tory is the vitality of religion in private life, and its deadness in public policy. Ruskin. His grace removes the defect of inclination, by taking of our natural deadness and disaffection towards them Rogers. 4. Vapidness; want of spirit; as, the deadness of liquors.-5. State of being incapable of conception according to the ordinary laws of nature. Rom. iv. 19.-6. Indifference; mortification of the natural desires; alienation of heart from temporal pleasures; as, deadness to the world. Dead-nettle (ded'net-tl), n. The common name of the species of plants of the genus Lamium, nat. order Labiatae, from the resemblance of their leaves to those of the nettle, though they have no stinging property. There are several species found in Britain, as the white dead-nettle (L. album), the red (L. purpureum), and the yellow (L. Galeobdolon). Dead-oil (ded'oil), n. Coal-tar. Dead-on-end (ded'on-end), a. Naut. a term applied to the wind when it is in direct opposition to the ship's course. Dead-pale (ded'pal), a. Pale as death; deadly pale. A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale, between the houses high. Tennyson. Dead-pay (ded'pa), n. Milit, and naut. the continued pay of soldiers and sailors actually dead, but which dishonest officers charged against the state and appropriated. O you commanders That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger. Dead-plate (ded'plat), n. A flat iron plate sometimes fitted before the bars of a furnace for the purpose of allowing the bituminous coal to assume the character of coke before it is thrust back into the fire. Dead-pledge (ded'plej), n. A mortgage or pawning of lands or goods, or the thing pawned. Dead-reckoning (ded'rek-n-ing), n. Naut. the calculation of a ship's place at sea, independently of observations of the heavenly bodies, and simply from the distance she has run by the log, and the courses steered by the compass, this being rectified by due allowances for drift, lee-way, &c. Dead-ripe (ded'rip), a. [Dead, completely, and ripe.] Completely ripe. Dead-rising (ded'riz-ing), n. In ship-building, that part of a ship which lies aft between the keel and her floor-timbers towards the stern-post. The term is generally applied to those parts of the bottom, throughout the ship's length, where the sweep or curve at the head of the floor-timber terminates or inflects to join the keel. Dead-rope (ded'rop), n. Naut. a rope which does not run in any block. Dead-set (ded'set), n. 1. The fixed position of a dog in pointing game.-2. A determined effort or attempt; a pointed attack. Clarke. 3. A concocted scheme to defraud a person in gaming. Dead-sheave (ded'shev), n. Naut. a scored aperture in the heel of a top-mast, through which a second top-tackle can be rove. Dead-shoar, Dead-shore (ded'shōr), n. A piece of wood built up vertically in a wall which has been broken through. Dead-shot (ded'shot), n. [See DEAD, a. 13.] A sure marksman. Dead's-part (dedz'pärt), n. In Scots law, that part of a man's movable succession which he is entitled to dispose of by testament, or what remains of the movables over and above what is due to the wife and children. Dead-stand (ded'stand), n. 1. A dilemma; a fix. I was at a dead-stand in the course of my fortunes, when it pleas'd God to provide me lately an employ. ment to Spain. Howell. 2. A determined opposition; as, he made a dead-stand against that course. Dead-thraw (ded'thra), n. The death-throe; the last agony. [Scotch.] Wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw! How d'ye think the spirit was to get awa through bolts and bars like thae? Sir W. Scott. 671 Dead-wall (ded'wal), n. A blank wall, without windows or openings. Dead-water (ded'wa'tér), n. Naut. the eddy water closing in with a ship's stern as she passes through the water. Dead-weight (ded'wat), n. 1. A heavy or oppressive burden. The fact is, fine thoughts, enshrined in appropriate language, are dead-weights upon the stage, unless they are struck like sparks from the action of the fable. Cornhill Mag. 2 A name given to an advance by the Bank of England to the government on account of half-pay and pensions to retired officers of the army or navy.--3. Naut. the lading of a vessel when it consists of heavy goods; that portion of the cargo, as coals, iron, &c., which pays freight according to its weight, and not to its bulk. Dead-well (ded'wel), n. Same as Absorbing Well. See ABSORBING. Dead-wind (ded'wind), n. Naut. a wind right against the ship, or that blowing from the very point towards which she is sailing. Dead-wood (ded'wud), n. Naut. blocks of timber laid upon the keel of a ship, particularly at the extremities, afore and abaft, to a considerable height one above another, and into which the two half timbers are secured. They are fastened to the keel by strong spikes. Dead-wool (ded'wyl), n. Wool taken from the skin of sheep which have been slaughtered or which have died. Dead-works (ded'wèrks), n. Naut. the parts of a ship which are above the surface of the water when she is balanced for a voyage. Deaf (def), a. [A. Sax.deaf. Cog. D.doof, Dan. döv, Icel. daufr, G. taub-deaf. Connected with Sc. douf, dull, dover, to slumber, daft, stupid, as also with Icel. dofi, torpor.] 1. Not perceiving sounds; not receiving impressions from sonorous bodies through the air; wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; as, a deaf ear; a deaf inan. Blind are their eyes, their ears are deaf, Nor hear when mortals pray; Mortals that wait for their relief Are blind and deaf as they. Watts. 2. Not listening, or refusing to listen; not regarding; not moved, persuaded, or convinced; as, deaf to reason or arguments. They might as well have blest her: she was deaf To blessing or to cursing save from one. Tennyson. 3. Without the ability or will to regard spiritual things; unconcerned. 'Hear, ye deaf.' Is. xlii. 18.-4. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden. 5. Stifled; imperfect; obscurely heard. Nor silence is within, nor voice express, 6. Barren; blasted; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. To deafen. Deaft (def), v.t. 'Deafed with clamours." Shak. Deaf-dumbness (def'dum-nes), n. Dumbness or aphony arising from deafness, congenital or occurring during infancy. Deafen (def'n), v. t. 1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to impair the organs of hearing so as to render them unimpressible to sounds.-2. To stun; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly; as, deafened with clamour or tumult.-3. In arch. to render impervious to sound (as a floor or partition) by means of Deafening (def'ning), n. sound-boarding and pugging. In arch. the pugging used to prevent the passage of sound through floors, partitions, and the like. Deafly (def'li), adv. Without sense of sounds; obscurely heard. Deaf-mute (def'mut), n. A person who is both deaf and dumb, the dumbness resulting from deafness which has either existed from birth or from a very early period of the person's life. Deaf-mutes communicate their thoughts by means of a manual alphabet. Under next article we give one of the forms of the two-hand alphabet invented about the close of the eighteenth century. Deafness (def'nes), n. 1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impressions which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. Deafness occurs in every degree, from that which merely impairs the accuracy of the ear in distinguishing faint or similar sounds, to that state in which there is no more sensation produced by sounds in this organ than in any other part of the body. Dumbness is the usual concomi Manual Alphabet for Deaf-mutes. any mental incapacity, but from the want of the sense of hearing, which sense enables us to imitate articulate sounds and to acquire speech. --2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the ear and to the understanding. Deaf-nut (def'nut), n. 1. A nut of which the kernel is decayed. Hence-2. Anything on which expectations have been founded that turns out worthless; as, his share of his uncle's estate turned out a deaf-nut after all. Deal (del), v.t. pret. & pp. dealt; ppr. dealing. [A. Sax. dælan, to divide, Icel. deila, to part from the noun. See DEAL, n.] 1. To divide; to part; to separate; hence, to divide in portions; to distribute, as cards to the players: often followed by out. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickel. 2. To scatter; to hurl; to throw about; as, to deal out blows. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden. He continued, when worse days were come, To deal about his sparkling eloquence. Wordsworth. Deal (del), v.i. 1. To distribute; to divide; to share out in portions, as in card-playing. 2. To traffic; to trade; to negotiate. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. 3. To act between man and man; to intervene; to transact or negotiate between men. He that deals between man and man raiseth his own credit with both. Bacon. 4. To behave well or ill; to act; to conduct one's self in relation to others. Thou shalt not steal, nor deal falsely. Lev. xix. 11. -To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by domestics. Locke. Such one deals not fairly by his own mind. --To deal in, (a) to have to do with; to be engaged in; to practise; as, they deal in political matters; they deal in low humour. (b) To trade in; as, to deal in silks or in cutlery. To deal with, (a) to treat in any manner; to use well or ill. Now will we deal worse with thee. Gen. xix. 9. (b) To contend with; to treat with, by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. (c) Eccles. to treat with by way of discipline; to admonish. [Scotch.] Deal (del), n. [O.E. deel, del, A. Sax. dæl, a portion, a share; the Teut. forms are all very similar, as D. deel, a share, a portion, a board or plank; Dan. deel, Sw. del, Goth. DEALBATE dails, G. theil, a part, a share. Dole, dale are from the same root.] 1. Lit. a division; a part or portion; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold; a deal of space. Formerly it was limited by some; as, some deal; but this is now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great; as, a great deal of labour; a great deal of time and pains; a great deal of land. In such phrases as, It is a great deal better, or worse, the words great deal serve as modifiers of the sense of better and worse. The true construction is, It is better by a great deal that is, by a great part or difference. 2. The division or distribution of cards; the art or practice of dealing cards. 'The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.' Swift.--3. The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank. The name deal is chiefly applied to boards of fir above 7 inches in width and of various lengths exceeding 6 feet. If 7 inches or less wide they are called battens, and when under 6 feet long they are called deal-ends. The usual thickness is 3 inches, and width 9 inches. The standard size, to which other sizes may be reduced, is 14 inch thick, 11 inches broad, and 12 feet long. Deals are imported from Prussia, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and British North America.-Whole deal, deal which is 14 inch thick; slit deal, half that thickness. 4. Wood of fir or pine, such as deals are made from; as, a floor of deal. Dealbate + (dē-al'bāt), v. t. [L. dealbo, dealbatum, to whitewash-de, intens., and albus, white.] To whiten. Dealbate (dé-al'bat), a. In bot. covered with a very white opaque powder. Dealbation + (de-al-ba'shon), n. The act of bleaching; a whitening. Sir T. Browne. Dealer (děl'ér), n. 1. One who deals; one who has to do or has concern with others; specifically, a trader; a trafficker; a shopkeeper; a broker; a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in hardware; a dealer in stocks; a dealer in leather; a dealer in lumber; a dealer in linens or woollens; a small dealer in groceries; a money-dealer. 'These small dealers in wit and learning?" Swift.-2. One who distributes cards to the players. Deal-fish (del'fish), n. [From its resemblance to a board.] Trachypterus (Bogmarus) arcticus, a fish occasionally found on the coasts of Orkney and Shetland. Dealing (děl'ing), n. 1. Practice; action; conduct; behaviour. Concerning the dealings of men, who administer government... they have their judge who sitteth in heaven. Hooker. 2. Conduct in relation to others; treatment; as, the dealings of a father with his children; God's dealings with men. It is to be wished, that men would promote the happiness of one another, in all their private dealings, among those who lie within their influence. Addison. 3. Intercourse in buying and selling; traffic; business; negotiation; as, Liverpool merchants have extensive dealings with all the world.-4. Intercourse of business or friendship; concern. The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jn. iv 9. Deal-tree (děl'tré), n. The fir-tree, so called because deals are commonly made from it. Deal-wine (dël'win), n. Same as Dele-wine. Deambulate † (dë-am'bū-lāt), v. i. [L. deambulo, to walk about-de, from, and ambulo, to walk.] To walk abroad. Deambulation † (dē-am'bū-la"shon), n. The act of walking abroad. Deambulatory † (dē-am'bû-la-to-ri), a. Pertaining to walks. Deambulatory † (dē-am'bū-là-to-ri), n. A covered place to walk in; specifically, the aisles of a church, or the porticoes around the body of a church; a gallery for walking in in a cloister, monastery, and the like. Warton. Dean (den), n. [O. Fr. dean, deien, Mod. Fr. doyen, from L. decanus, one set over ten persons; in Med. L., one set over ten monks, from L. decem, ten.] 1. An ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, said to have been so called because he presided over ten canons or prebendaries; but more probably because each diocese was divided into deaneries, each comprising ten parishes or churches, and with a dean presiding over each. In England, in respect of their differences of office, deans are of six kinds: (a) Deans of chapters, who are governors over the canons in cathedral and collegiate 672 Of churches. (b) Deans of peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. the former class is the dean of Battle, in Sussex; of the latter are the deans of the Arches in London, of Bocking, in Essex, and of Croydon, in Surrey. (c) Rural deans, who were originally beneficed clergymen appointed by the bishop to exercise a certain jurisdiction in districts of his diocese remote from his personal superintendence. Their functions, however, have for many years become almost obsolete. (d) Deans in the colleges of our universities, officers appointed to superintend the behaviour of the members and to enforce discipline. (e) Honorary deans, as the dean of the Chapel Royal, St. James's. (f) Dean of the province of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, to whom, when a convocation is to be assembled, the archbishop sends his mandate for summoning the bishops of the province.--Dean and chapter are the bishop's council to aid him with their advice in affairs of religion, and they may advise, likewise, in the temporal concerns of his see.--Dean of the chapel royal, in Scotland, a title bestowed on six clergymen of the Church of Scotland, who receive from the crown a portion of the revenues which formerly belonged to the chapel royal in Scotland, and which are now in the gift of the crown.-2. In some universities, as that of London and those of Scotland, the chief or head of a faculty; in the United States, a registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, theological, or scientific department.-3. The president for the time being of an incorporation of barristers or law practitioners; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh.-Dean of guild, in Scotland, originally that magistrate of a royal burgh who was head of the merchant company or guildry; now the magistrate whose proper duty is to take care that all buildings within the burgh are sufficient, that they are erected agreeably to law, and that they do not encroach either on private or public property. He may order insufficient buildings to be taken down, but in other respects his jurisdiction is confined to possessory questions. In most burghs the functions of this officer are now performed by a member of the town-council, elected by the majority of councillors. But the deans of guild in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Perth, elected as heretofore by the guildry, are continued as constituent members of the council to perform all the functions of their office.-Dean of guild court, that municipal body which is presided over by the dean of guild, and whose jurisdiction is confined to the regulation of buildings within the royalty, to such matters of police as have any connection with buildings, and to the regu lation of weights and measures. Deanery (dén'é-ri), n. 1. The office or the revenue of a dean.-2. The house of a dean. Take her by the hand, away with her to the deanShak. ery, and dispatch it quickly. 3. The jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone. Deanship (den'ship),n. The office, rank, dignity, or title of a dean. Because I don't value your deanship a straw. Swift. Dear (der), a. [A. Sax. deore, dyre, dear, beloved, high-priced; O. D. dier, Mod. D. duur, Icel. Dan. and Sw. dyr, G. theuer, dear, beloved, high-priced, &c.] 1. Bearing a high price in comparison with the usual price or the real value; of a higher price than customary, or high-priced in comparison with other articles: opposite to cheap (which see). The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak. 2. Characterized by scarcity or dearth, and hence by exorbitance of price; as, a dear season.-3. Of a high value in estimation; greatly valued; beloved; precious. Deart (der), v.t. To make dear. Shelton. Dear (der), n. A darling; a word denoting tender affection or endearment. That kiss I carried from thee, dear. Shak. Dear (der), adv. 1. Dearly, very tenderly 'So dear I love the man.' Shak.-2. At a dear rate. If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear. Shak. Dearborn(derborn), n. A light four-wheeled country vehicle used in the United States. so called from its inventor. Dear-bought (dērbat), a. [See BOUGHT.] Purchased at a high price; as, dear-bought experience. Dear-bought blessings.' Dryden. Dearet (der), n. [See DERE] Hurt; trouble or misfortune. Spenser. Dearlingt (dérling), n. Same as Darling. Spenser. Dearly (dér'li), adv. 1. At a high price. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden. 2. With great fondness; as, we love our children dearly; dearly beloved. 3. Exquisitely; richly. Dearly parted '= Richly gifted. Shak. Dearn (dērn), n. In arch a door-post or threshold. Written also Dern. Dearnt (dérn), a. [Sax. deorn, hidden, secret.] Dearness (der'nes), n. 1. Scarcity; high price, Lonely; solitary; melancholy. Shak. or a higher price than the customary one; 'The dearness of corn. Swift.-2. Fondness; nearness to the heart or affections; great value in estimation; preciousness; tender love. The dearness of friendship. Bacon. The child too clothes the father with a deerness not his due. Tenusson See DERNLY. Same as Dernful. Dearnfult (dern'ful), a. Dearnly+ (děrn'li), adv. Secretly; privately; mournfully. Dearth (dèrth), n. (See DEAR] 1. Scarcity, which makes food dear; as, a dearth of corn. 2. Want; need; famine. Pity the dearth that I have pined in, 3. Barrenness; poverty; meagreness. Shak That dearth of plot and narrowness of imagination which may be observed in all their plays. Dryden. Dearthful (dérth'ful), a. Expensive; costly; very dear. [Scotch.] Ye Scots, wha wish auld Scotland well, Wi' bitter dearthful wines to mell. Burns. Dearticulatet (dē-är-tik ́ū-lāt), r.t. [L. de, priv., and articulo, to joint, articulus, a joint.] To disjoint. Same as Dais. Deary (der'i), n. A word of endearment; a dear. [Familiar.] Deas (de'as), n. Deasil (de'shel), n. [Gael.] Motion from east to west, according to the course of the sun Variously spelled Deasoil, Deisheal. [Scotch | Death (deth), n. [A. Sax. death. Cog. Goth dauthus, L.G. and D. dood, Sw. and Dan. ded. G. tod-death. See DEAD and DIE.] 1 That state of a being, animal or vegetable, but more particularly of an animal, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, when the organs have not only ceased to act, but have lost the susceptibility of renewed action. Thus the cessation of respiration and circulation in an animal may not be death, for during hybernation some animals become entirely torpid, and the vital functions of some animals and vegetables may be suspended by frost, but being capable of revived activity they are not dead. Save those of fear, no other bands fear I, O death, where is thy sting! |