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 history 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'på), 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. Naut.

Dead-reckoning (ded'rek-n-ing), n.

the calculation of a ship's place at sea, in-
dependently 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-build-
ing, that part of a ship which lies aft be-
tween 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.

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Dead-wall (ded'wal), n. A blank wall, with-
Dead-water (ded'wa'tér), n. Naut. the eddy
out windows or openings.
water closing in with a ship's stern as she
Dead-weight (ded'wat), n.
passes through the water.
oppressive burden.

1. A heavy or

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, parti-
cularly 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 slaugh-
tered 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 im-
pressions from sonorous bodies through the
air; wanting the sense of hearing, either
wholly or in part; as, a deaf ear; a deaf man.
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 con-
vinced; 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 spiri-
tual things; unconcerned. 'Hear, ye deaf.
Is. xlii. 18.-4. Deprived of the power of hear-
ing; deafened.

Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.
5. Stifled; imperfect; obscurely heard.

Nor silence is within, nor voice express,
But a deaf noise of sounds that never cease.
Dryden.
Deaft (def), v. t. To deafen. Deafed with
6. Barren; blasted; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

clamours. Shak.
Deaf-dumbness (def'dum-nes), n. Dumb-
ness or aphony arising from deafness, con-
genital or occurring during infancy.
Deafen (def'n), v. t. 1. To make deaf; to de-
prive 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 dis-
tinctly; as, deafened with clamour or tu-
mult.-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 pug-
ging used to prevent the passage of sound
Deafly (def'li), adv. Without sense of sounds;
through floors, partitions, and the like.
Deaf-mute (def'mût), n.
obscurely heard.
A person who is
both deaf and dumb, the dumbness result-
ing 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 alpha-
bet. 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 per-
ceiving sounds; the state of the organs
which prevents the impressions which
constitute hearing; want of the sense
of hearing. Deafness occurs in every de-
gree, 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-

DEAL

tant of complete deafness, and in general dumbness does not proceed from any original defect in the organs of speech or from

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 poli-
tical 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.
Return... and I will deal well with thee.
Gen. xxxii. 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 admon-
ish. [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 modi-
fiers 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 saw-
ing; 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 thick-
ness 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
1 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, deal-
batum, to whitewash-de, intens., and albus,
white.] To whiten.

Déalbate (dé-al'bat), a. In bot. covered with
a very white opaque powder.
Dealbation t (de-al-ba'shon), n. The act of
bleaching: a whitening. Sir T. Browne.
Dealer (dēl'ér), n. 1. One who deals; one
who has to do or has concern with others;
specifically, a trader; a trafficker; a shop-
keeper; 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 (děl'fish), n. [From its resemblance
to a board.] Trachypterus (Bogmarus) arc-
ticus, a fish occasionally found on the coasts
of Orkney and Shetland.

Dealing (del'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 mer-
chants have extensive dealings with all the
world.-4. Intercourse of business or friend-
ship; concern.

The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jn. iv. 9.

dangerous, deadly, bitter, &c.; as, 'our dear
peril.' Shak.

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven,
Ere I had seen that day.

Shak

In the following extracts it appears to sig-
nify closely affecting the heart; coming
from the heart; earnest; passionate; and
hence, furious. 'So dear the love my
people bore me.' Shak. 'Deafed with the
clamours of their own dear groans.' Shak
You toward York shall bend with your dearest speed
Shak
Consort with me in loud and dear petition. Shak
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Whom thou in terms so bloody, and so deur,
Hast made thine enemies.

Shak

Shelton.

Deart (der), v.t. To make dear.
Dear (der), n. A darling; a word denoting
tender affection or endearment.

That kiss I carried from thee, dear. Shak

'So dear I love the man."
dear rate.

Shak.-2 At a

churches. (b) Deans of peculiars, who have
sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of
souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. Of
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 mem-
bers 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 summon-
ing the bishops of the province.-Dean and Dear (der), adv. 1. Dearly; very tenderly
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 de-
partment.-3. The president for the time
being of an incorporation of barristers or
law practitioners; specifically, the president
of the incorporation of advocates in Edin-
burgh.-Dean of guild, in Scotland, origin-
ally 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 en-
croach either on private or public property.
He may order insufficient buildings to be
taken down, but in other respects his juris-
diction 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.

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 (der bat), a. [See BOUGHT }
Purchased at a high price; as, dear-bought
experience. Dear-bought blessings.' Dry-
den.

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, a court pre-
sided over by the dean of guild, and whose
jurisdiction is confined to the regulation of
buildings, to such matters of police as have
any connection with buildings, and to the
regulation of weights and measures.
Dean (den), n. A dene or valley.
Deanery (děn'è-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 dean-
ery, and dispatch it quickly.
Shak.

3. The jurisdiction of a dean.

Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone.

Dearet (der), n. [See DERE.] Hurt; trouble
or misfortune. Spenser.
Dearlingt (derling), n.
Spenser.

Same as Darling

Dearly (der'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. Ex-
quisitely; richly. Dearly parted' = Richly
gifted. Shak.

Dearn (dern), n. In arch. a door-post or
threshold. Written also Dern.

Dearnt (dērn), a. [Sax. deorn, hidden, secret ] Lonely; solitary; melancholy. Shak Dearness (der'nes), n. 1. Scarcity; high price, 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 dearness not his due. Tennyson. Dearnfult (dêrn'ful), a. Same as Dernful Dearnlyt (dern'li), adv. Secretly; privately; mournfully. See DERNLY.

Dearth (dérth), 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,
By longing for that food so long a time

3. Barrenness; poverty; meagreness.

Shak

That dearth of plot and narrowness of imagination which may be observed in all their plays. Dryden. Dearthful (dèrth'ful), a. Expensive; costly: very dear. [Scotch.]

Ye Scots, wha wish auld Scotland well,
It sets you ill,

Wi' bitter dearthfu wines to mell Burns Dearticulate (de-ar-tik'u-lāt), v.t. [L de, priv., and articulo, to joint, articulus, a joint.] To disjoint.

Deal-tree (del'trë), n. The fir-tree, so called Deanship (den'ship), n. The office, rank, dig. Deary (der'i), n. A word of endearment; a

because deals are commonly made from it. Deal-wine (del'win), n. Same as Dele-wine. Deambulate † (dē-am'bū-lāt), v. i. [L. deambulo, to walk about-de, from, and ambulo,

to walk.] To walk abroad. Deambulation † (dē-am'bü-la"shon), n. The act of walking abroad.

Deambulatory † (dē-am'bū-lã-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

nity, or title of a dean.

Because I don't value your deanship a straw. Swift.

Dear (der), a. [A. Sax. deôre, dyre, dear, be-
loved, high-priced; O. D. dier, Mod. D. duur,
Icel. Dan. and Sw. dyr, G. theuer, dear, be-
loved, high-priced, &c.] 1. Bearing a high
price in comparison with the usual price or
the real value; of a higher price than cus-
tomary, 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.

And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope.
Be ye followers of God, as dear children. Eph. v. 1.
From the notion of being highly valued
comes that of being vitally essential.

We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Burns.

From this the sense easily passes into that
of worthy of high consideration, important,
either in a good or bad sense; thus, 'dear
cause, in Lear iv. 3, equal to important
business; so that, when applied to danger,
a foe, pain, &c., it is almost equivalent to

dear. [Familiar.]

Deas (de'as), n. Same as Dais.
Deasil (de'shël), 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 dod.
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 sus-
ceptibility 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 ani-
mals 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,

No other death than this-the fear to die. Crawshare
In poetry and poetical prose death is often
personified and addressed or spoken of as
if an individual.

O death, where is thy sting?
How wonderful is Death!
Death and his brother Sleep.

1 Car x 55 Sheiny

DEATH-AGONY

Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise,
And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;
When, turning round a cassia, full in view,
Death, walking all alone beneath a yew,
And talking to himself, first met his sight. Tennyson.
2 The state of the dead. The gates of
death.' Job xxxviii. 17.-3. The manner of
dying.

Thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in
the midst of the seas.
Ezek. xxviii. 8.

Let me die the death of the righteous.

Num. xxiii. 10. 4. A skeleton, or the figure of a skeleton, as the symbol of mortality; as, a death's head. Strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death." Milton.-5. The act of taking life unlawfully; murder. Not to suffer a man of death to live." Bacon.6. Cause, agent, or instrument of death. Swiftly flies the feathered death.' Dryden. It was one who should be the death of both his

parents.

Milton.

2 Ki. iv. 40.

Deaths invisible come winged with fire. Dryden. O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. 7. Total loss or privation; extinction; as, the death of memory; the death of the year. 8 Imminent peril of death. In deaths oft.' 2 Cor. xi. 23.-9. Punishment of death; capital punishment.

I would make it death

Tennyson.

For any male thing but to peep at us. 10 In theol. perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments; called the second death. Rev. ii. 11.-11. Separation or alienation of the soul from God; a being under the dominion of sin, and destitute of grace or divine life; state of being spiritually dead. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. 1 John iii. 14.

12. Anything dreadful as death.

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury.

-Civil death, is the separation of a man from civil society, or from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, abjuration of the realm, entering into a monastery, &c. Death-agony (deth'ag-o-ni), n Deathstruggle; the agony or struggle which immediately precedes death.

Death-bed (deth'bed), n.

1. The bed on which a person dies or is confined in his last sickness.-2. A person's last sickness; sickness ending in death.

Young.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart. Death-bed (deth'bed), a. Of or pertaining to a death-bed, last sickness of one, or the circumstances of one's dying.

A death-bed repentance ought not indeed to be
neglected, because it is the last thing that we can
do.
Bp. Atterbury.
-Death-bed expenses, in Scots law, expenses
connected with a person's last sickness.
Death-bell (deth'bel), n. 1. The bell that
announces death; the passing-bell.-2. A
sound in the ears, like that of a tolling bell,
supposed by the Scottish peasantry to an-
nounce the death of a friend.

O lady, 'tis dark, an' I heard the death-bell,
An' I darena gae yonder for gowd nor fee. Hogg.
Death-blow (deth'blō), n. 1. A blow causing
death; a mortal blow.
Whose death-blow struck the dateless doom of kings.

Her (Lucretia),

Tennyson.
2. Anything which extinguishes hope, or
blights one's prospects.

By the death-blow of my hope,
My memory immortal grew. Byron.
Death-cord (deth'kord), n. A rope for hang-
ing; the gallows rope.

Have I done well to give this hoary vet'ran,
Who has for thirty years fought in our wars,
To the death-cord, unheard?
J. Baillie.

The cold

Death-damp (deth'damp), n.
clammy sweat which precedes death.
Death-dance (deth'dans), n. The dance of
death. Burke. See under DANCE, n.
Death-fire (deth'fir), n. A luminous appear-
ance or flame, as the ignis fatuus, supposed
to presage death.

And round about in reel and rout,

The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. Deathful (deth'ful), a 1. Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive.

These eyes behold
The deathful scene.

2. Liable to death; mortal.

Pope.

The deathless gods, and deathful earth. Chapman. Deathfulness (deth'ful-nes), n. Appearance of death; state of being suggestive of, or associated with, death.

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The whole picture (Turner's Slave-ship) is dedi
cated to the most sublime of subjects and impres
sions, . the power, majesty, and deathfulness of
Deathify (deth'i-fi), v.t. To make dead; to
the open, deep, illimitable sea.
Ruskin.
kill Coleridge. [Rare.]
Deathless (deth'les), a. 1. Immortal; not
subject to death, destruction, or extinction;
as, deathless beings; deathless fame. 'Gods
there are and deathless.' Tennyson.
Ne'er shall oblivion's murky cloud
Obscure his deathless praise. Sir W. Jones.
2. Unquenchable. 'Deathless thirst.' Ay-
toun.
Deathlike (deth'lik), a. Resembling death.
'Deathlike slumber.' Pope. 'Deathlike
quiet.' Waller.

Deathliness (deth'li-nes), n. Quality of being
deathly. Southey. [Rare.]

Deathly (deth'li), a. Fatal; mortal; deadly.
Deathly (deth-li), adv. So as to resemble a
Unwholesome and deathly. Udall. [Rare.]
dead person.

I saw Lucy standing before me, alone, deathly pale.
Dickens.
Death-pale (deth'pal), a. Exhibiting the
pallor of death; deadly pale.

I beheld him in my dreams
Death-pale, for lack of gentle maiden's aid.
Tennyson.

Death-rate (deth'rāt), n. The proportion
of deaths among the inhabitants of a town,
country, &c. In this country it is usually
calculated at so many per thousand per
annum; on the Continent often at one in so
many per annum.

Death-rattle (deth'rat-1), n. A rattling in
the throat of a dying person.
Death-ruckle (deth'ruk-1), n. Death-rattle.
[Scotch.]

Death's-door (deths'dor), n. A near ap-
proach to death; the gates of death.
Death's-head (deths'hed), n. The skull of a
human skeleton, or a figure or painting
representing one.

What manner of death's-head it will bee
When it is free

From that fresh upper skin.

Suckling.

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a
bone in his mouth.
Shak.

-Death's-head moth, or Death's-head hawk-
moth, the largest species of lepidopterous
insect found in Britain, and systematically
known by the name of Acherontia atropos.
The markings upon the back of the thorax
very closely resemble a skull or death's-
head; hence the English name. It measures
from 4 to 5 inches in expanse. It emits
peculiar sounds, somewhat resembling the
squeaking of a mouse, but how these are
produced naturalists have not been able
satisfactorily to explain. It attacks bee-
hives, pillages the honey, and disperses the
inhabitants. It is regarded by the vulgar
Death's-man (deths'man), n.
as the forerunner of death or other calamity.
tioner; a hangman; he who executes the
extreme penalty of the law.

An execu

He's dead; I'm only sorry
He had no other death's-man, Shak.
Far more expressive than our term of executioner
is their (ancient writers') solemn one of death's-man.
Disraeli.

Death-sough (deth'such), n. The last heavy
breathings or sighings of a dying person.
[Scotch.]

Heard na ye the lang-drawn death-sough! The
death-sough of the Morisons is as hollow as a groan
frae the grave.
Blackwood's Mag.

Death-stroke (deth'strōk), n. The stroke of
death; a death-blow. Coleridge.
Death-struggle (deth'strug-gl), n. Same as
Death-agony.

Death-throe (deth'thro), n. The pain which
accompanies death.

Death-token (deth'to-kn), n. That which
indicates approaching death.

1. In

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
cry-'No recovery."
Deathward (deth'ward), adv. Toward death.
Shak.
Beau. & Fl
Death-warrant (deth'wo-rant), n.
law, an order from the proper authority for
the execution of a criminal.-2. Anything
which puts an end to hope or expectation.
Death-watch (deth'woch), n. A small beetle,
whose ticking is supposed, by superstitious
and ignorant people, to prognosticate death.
It belongs to the genus Anobium, being the
A. tesselatum. These insects abound in old
houses, where they get into the wood.
Their ticking is only the call of the sexes
to each other, which, if no answer be re-

Death-wound (deth'wönd), n. 1. A wound causing death.-2. In mar law, a term for the starting of a butt-end, or springing a fatal leak.

A ship had received her death-wound, but by pumping was kept afloat for three days after the time she was insured for. Smyth. Deaurate (dē-g'rāt), v.t. [L. deauro, deauratum, to gild.] To gild. Bailey [Rare.] Deauration † (dé-a-rá'shon), n. Deaurate (de-a'rāt), a. Gilded. [Rare.] The act of gilding Deave, Deve (děv), v.t. [Sw. deofwa; Icel. deyfa, to deafen.] To deafen; to stupefy with noise. [Scotch.]

A

If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or patronage intrusion. Burns. Debacchatet (dē-bak'kāt), v. i. [L.debacchor, debacchatus, to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.] To rave and bluster as a bacchanal. Debacchationt (dē-bak-kā'shon), n. Debacle (dē-ba'kl), n. [Fr., from debacler, to raving. break up, as ice does-de, priv., and bacler, to bar, from L. baculus, a bar, a bolt.] 1. Properly, a sudden breaking up of ice in a river. In geol. applied to any sudden outbreak of water, hurling before it and dispersing stones and other debris.-2. A confused rout; an uncontrollable flight; a stampede.

Debar (dé-bar), v.t. pret. & pp. debarred; ppr. debarring. [De and bar.] To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; as, we are not debarred from any rational enjoyment; religion debars us from no real pleasure.

Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts, but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle.

SYN. To exclude, deprive, hinder, preclude, Debarbt (de-bärb'), v.t. To deprive of the interdict, prohibit, shut out.

beard.

Debark (dē-bärk), v.t. [Fr. débarquer-de, and barque, a boat or vessel.] To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery. [It is less Debark (de-bärk), v.i. To leave a ship or used, especially in a transitive sense, than disembark.] boat and pass to the land; as, the troops debarked at four o'clock. Debarkation (dē-bärk-ā'shon), n. of disembarking. Debarment (de-bärʼment), n. The act of debarring or excluding; hindrance from approach; exclusion.

The act

Debarrass (de-ba'ras), v.t. [Fr. debarrasser,
to clear; to disentangle.] To free from em-
barrassment or entanglement; to disem-
barrass. Eclec. Rev. [Rare.]
Debase (dě-bás), v. t. pret. & pp. debased; ppr.
debasing [De and base.] To reduce from
a higher to a lower state; to reduce or
lower in quality, purity, value, dignity,
character, and the like; to degrade; to viti-
ate; to adulterate; to abase; as, to debase
gold or silver by alloy; to debase the char-
acter by crime; to debase the mind by fri-
volity to debase style by vulgar words.
To debase religion with frivolous disputes."
Hooker.

Pleasure and sensuality debase men into beasts.
Broome.

-Abase, Debase, Degrade. See under ABASE. SYN. To humble, degrade, depress, lower, disgrace.

Debased (de-bāst'), p. and a. 1. Reduced in estimated value; lowered in estimation;

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