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v. t. [ L. adimere. See Ademption. ] (Law) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An act of charity. Acts ix. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as black cap{ 1b }. [ PJC ]

a. Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n. The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chaldee Paraphrase, A targum written in Aramaic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cordé, cordée, p. p. of corder to cord. ] (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Commandeered p. pr. & vb. n. Commandeering. ] [ D. kommandeeren to command, in South Africa to commandeer, fr. F. commander to command. See Command. ] 1. (Mil.) To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. coud&unr_;e, from coude elbow. ] A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. Gael.cuilteach; cf. Ir. ceilede. ] One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pure Culdees
Were Albyn's earliest priests of God. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) an electrode with a large interior cavity, shaped like the letter "D", used in opposed pairs to accelerate particles in a cyclotron. [ PJC ]

a. Dead. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. d&aemacr_;d; akin to OS. dād, D. & Dan. daad, G. that, Sw. dåd, Goth. dēds; fr. the root of do. See Do, v. t. ] 1. That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done? Gen. xliv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would serve his kind in deed and word. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. “Knightly deeds.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Power of action; agency; efficiency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To be, both will and deed, created free. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate, and it is the prevailing doctrine that a deed must be signed as well as sealed, though at common law signing was formerly not necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blank deed, a printed form containing the customary legal phraseology, with blank spaces for writing in names, dates, boundaries, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Performance; -- followed by of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In deed, in fact; in truth; verily. See Indeed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [ R. ] “A deedful life.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deedless in his tongue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Law) A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Religion) performance of moral or religious acts; salvation is not by deeds, but by faith; to do good deeds.
Syn. -- works. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Industrious; active. [ R. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deemed p. pr. & vb. n. Deeming. ] [ OE. demen to judge, condemn, AS. dēman, fr. dōm doom; akin to OFries. dēma, OS. adōmian, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. dæma, Sw. dömma, Dan. dömme, Goth. dōmjan. See Doom, n., and cf. Doom, v. ] 1. To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. [ 1913 Webster ]

For never can I deem him less him less than god. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. [ 1913 Webster ]

And deemest thou as those who pore,
With aged eyes, short way before? Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pass judgment. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion; judgment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Deem + -ster; i. e., doomster. Cf. Dempster. ] A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Deeper superl. Deepest ] [ OE. dep, deop, AS. deóp; akin to D. diep, G. tief, Icel. djūpr, Sw. diup, Dan. dyb, Goth. diups; fr. the root of E. dip, dive. See Dip, Dive. ] 1. Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

The water where the brook is deep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Safely in harbor
Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speculations high or deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep clerks she dumbs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror. “Deep despair.” Milton. “Deep silence.” Milton. “Deep sleep.” Gen. ii. 21. “Deeper darkness.” Hoole. “Their deep poverty.” 2 Cor. viii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

An attitude of deep respect. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. “The deep thunder.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bass of heaven's deep organ. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. --
Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut, deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, “deep-uddered kine.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy judgments are a great deep. Ps. xxxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deep of night is crept upon our talk. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deepened p. pr. & vb. n. Deepening. ] 1. To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. [ 1913 Webster ]

It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

You must deepen your colors. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens. [ 1913 Webster ]

His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having eyes set well behind the brow; characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver.
Syn. -- hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Hot liquified fat used to deep-fry food. See deep-fry. [ PJC ]

v. t. To fry in deep fat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Deeply fetched or drawn. [ Obs. ] “Deep-fet groans.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Fried in fat or oil deep enough to cover the object.
Syn. -- fried. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. to cook by immersing in hot fat or oil.
Syn. -- french-fry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned; as, deep-laid plans. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken from an undergrround mine; -- as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine; as, deep-mined coal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a loud and sonorous voice. “Deep-mouthed dogs.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Craft; insidiousness. [ R. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Profoundly book- learned. “Great writers and deep-read men.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. well-established; as, deep-rooted prejudice.
Syn. -- deep-seated, fundamental, ingrained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. at some distance from the shore; as, deep-sea fishing.
Syn. -- offshore. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; as, deep-sea exploration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as deep-rooted.
Syn. -- deep-rooted, fundamental, ingrained. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. having a sunken area.
Syn. -- sunken, recessed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. to discard in a deep body of water; -- also used figuratively, to discard contemptuously.
Syn. -- deep six, give it the deep six. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to throw from a boat into the water.
Syn. -- deep six, throw overboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Naut.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having waters of great depth; as, a deep-water port. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. carried on in waters of great depth.
Syn. -- deep-sea. [ PJC ]

n. sing. & pl. [ OE. der, deor, animal, wild animal, AS. deór; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. d&ymacr_;r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin. √71. ] 1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is Cervus dama; the common American deer is Cervus Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is Cervus Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is Cervus macrotis. See Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deer mouse (Zool.), the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) of America. --
Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) “Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.” G. P. Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]