dead born (dedborn)

[AS. deádboren.] Still-born. All, all but truth, drops dead - born from the pre , Like the last gazette, or the last addre . Pope , Epil. to Satires, ii. 226. dead-center (ded's enter), n. In mech., that position of the arms of a link-motion in which they coincide with the line of centers-that is, when the links are in the same straight line. Thus, when the crank and connecting-rod of a steam engine are in a straight line, the situation is expre ed by saying that the engine is on its (upper or lower) dead center , or that the crank is at its (long or short) dead - point . which to bury the dead. angle.-Dead weight. See weight. - Dead wire, in teleg., a wire or line to which there is no instrument attached and which is not in use. - Dead wools. See fleece, 1.Ma for the dead. See ma 1. - To be dead+ [with reference to the act, be being equivalent to become; cf. L. mortuus est, he died, lit. he is dead], to die. Dampned was this Knyght for to be deed . Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 35. If righteousne come by the law, then Christ is dead in Gal. ii. 21. The gracious Duncan Was pitied of Macbeth: - marry, he was dead. Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 6. vain. To flog a dead horse, to pay for a dead horse, to pull the dead horse. See horse. II. n. 1. The culminating point, as of the cold of winter, or of the darkne or stillne of the night. What saucy groom knocks at this dead of night? Beau. and Fl., Phil aster, ii. 4. 2. pl. Material thrown out in digging; specifically, in mining, worthle rock; attle: same as gob in coal-mining. Also (dialectal) deeds. 31. [Prop. a var. of death; cf. deadly = deathly, dead- day = death -day, etc.] Death. The date a you sand right a hundreth & fifty, That Steuen to dede was dight. Robert of Brunne. Although he were my ae brither, An ill dead sall he die. Bonny Baby Livings ton (Child's Ballads, IV. 42). 4. A complete failure in recitation. [School slang.] deadhead render le sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; impair the sensitivene or the strength of; dull; weaken: as, to deaden sound; to deaden the force of a ball; to deaden the sensibilities. There is a vital energy in the human soul, which vice, however it may deaden , cannot destroy. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 75. 2. To retard; hinder; le en the velocity or momentum of: as, to deaden a ship's way (that is, to retard her progre ). -3. To make impervious to sound, as a floor.-4. To make insipid, flat, or stale: said of wine or beer.-5. Το deprive of glo or brilliancy: as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. The sunbeams sought the Court of Guard, And, struggling with the smoky air, Deadened the torches' yellow glare. Scott , L. of the L., vi. 2. Owen , Anat., ii. Oily marrow deadens the whitene of the ti ue. 6. To kill; especially, to kill (trees) by girdling. [Western U. S.]