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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sainted \Saint"ed\, a. 1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. "A most sainted king." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for {dead}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de['a]d; akin to OS. d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf. {Death}.] 1. Deprived of life; -- opposed to {alive} and {living}; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." --Shak. [1913 Webster] The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter. [1913 Webster] 3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep. [1913 Webster] 4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight. [1913 Webster] 5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor. [1913 Webster] 6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade. [1913 Webster] 7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc. [1913 Webster] 8. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." --C. Reade. [1913 Webster] 9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty. [1913 Webster] I had them a dead bargain. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. "Dead in trespasses." --Eph. ii. 1. [1913 Webster] 12. (Paint.) (a) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect. (b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson. [1913 Webster] 13. (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. [1913 Webster] 14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See {Spindle}. [1913 Webster] 15. (Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 16. Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games. [In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Dead ahead} (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. {Dead angle} (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. {Dead block}, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. {Dead calm} (Naut.), no wind at all. {Dead center}, or {Dead point} (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by, the lever L. {Dead color} (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it. {Dead coloring} (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. {Dead door} (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. {Dead flat} (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. {Dead freight} (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. --Abbott. {Dead ground} (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. {Dead hand}, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." --Morley. See {Mortmain}. {Dead head} (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. {Dead heat}, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. {Dead horse}, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] {Dead language}, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. {Dead plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. {Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}. {Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}. {Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. {Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. {Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. {Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}. {Dead set}. See under {Set}. {Dead shot}. (a) An unerring marksman. (b) A shot certain to be made. {Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files. {Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. {Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. {Dead weight}. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. --Knight. {Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. {To be dead}, to die. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer. Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dead \Dead\, v. i. To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] dead beat From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), adv. To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] {Dead drunk}, so drunk as to be unconscious. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), n. 1. The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. [1913 Webster] When the drum beat at dead of night. --Campbell. [1913 Webster] 2. One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. [1913 Webster] And Abraham stood up from before his dead. --Gen. xxiii. 3. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dead \Dead\, v. t. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: dead adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly}, {suddenly}, {short}, {dead}] 2: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: {absolutely}, {perfectly}, {utterly}, {dead}] adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: {alive(p)}, {live}] 2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: {live}] 3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: {all in(p)}, {beat(p)}, {bushed(p)}, {dead(p)}] 4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" 5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" 6: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}] 7: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: {dead}, {deadened}] 8: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" 9: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: {dead}, {idle}] 10: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}, {stagnant}] 11: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" 12: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" 13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" 14: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" 15: complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn: {dead(a)}, {utter}] 16: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: {dead}, {drained}] 17: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" [ant: {living}] 2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: dead adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support. 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: live. Compare {dead code}.