deaerate (deaerat)

t.; pret. and pp. de aërated, ppr. de - aërating. [ Ure, Dict., IV. 240. deaf (def or def), a. [Early mod. E. also deef; = IMG:content-2107.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2108.png:[blocks in formation] And many of hem becamen blynde, and many deve , for the noyse of the water. Mandeville , Travels, p. 306. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden. 3. Refusing to listen or to hear; unwilling to regard or give heed; unmoved or unpersuaded; insensible: as, deaf to entreaty; deaf to all argument or reason. For God is def now a dayes and deyneth nouht ous to huyre. Piers Plowman (C), xii. 61. To counsel this lady was deaf, To judgment she was blind. Margaret of Craignargat (Child's Ballads, VIII. 252). Oh, the millions of deaf hearts, deaf to everything really impa ioned in music, that pretend to admire Mozart! De Quincey , Secret Societies, ii. They might as well have blest her; she was deaf To ble ing or to cursing save from one. Tennyson, Geraint. 4. Lacking sharpne or clearne ; dull; stifled; obscurely heard; confused. [Rare.] Nor silence is within, nor voice expre , But a deaf noise of sounds that never cease. Dryden. 5t. Numb. Tórpido is a fi he, but who-so handeleth hym shal be lame & defe of lymmes that he shall fele no thyng. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 239. 6. Barren; sterile; blasted: as, deaf land; deaf corn. Every day, it seems, was separately a blank day, yield ing absolutely nothing-what children call a deaf nut, offering no kernel. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sketches, I. 91. Deaf and dumb. See deaf -mute. - Deaf as a door, post, or stone, exceedingly deaf. IMG:content-2109.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A subject for di ection. [Med. slang.] deaf-mutene (def'mut"nes), n. [ Physiological accidents, more painful and not le incurable than those of deaf - mutene and blindne . O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 358. [ deaf-mutism (def'mū"tizm), n. + ism.] The condition of being a deaf-mute. Deaf- mutism no actual indication of disease, ādeáfian, become deaf (= OFries. dava = D. dooven, tarnish, verdooven, deafen, = OHG. tou ben, MHG. töuben, G. betäuben, deafen, stun, = Icel. deyfa = Dan. döve = Sw. döfva ), Palsgrave, sig. B iii., fol. 206. And lest their lamentable shreeks should sad the hearts of their Parents, the Priests of Molech did deaf their ears with the continuall clangs of trumpets and timbrels. Sandys , Travailes, p. 145. An obstinate sinner... still deafs himself to the cry of his own conscience, that he may live the more licentiously. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 41.