deadliness (dedlines)

[ IMG:content-2103.jpg:[blocks in formation] Bp. Hall , Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched, ii. dead-lock (ded'lok), n. 1. A lock worked on one side by a handle and on the other side by a key. E. H. Knight .-2. A complete stop page, stand-still, or entanglement; a state of affairs in which further progre or a decision is for the time impo ible, as if from an inextricable locking up: as, a dead - lock in a legislature where parties are evenly balanced. [Often written deadlock.] There's situation for you! there's an heroic group! You see the ladies can't stab Whiskerandos - he durst not strike them, for fear of their uncles - the uncles durst not kill him, because of their nieces - I have them all at a dead lock ! - for every one of them is afraid to let go first. Sheridan, The Critic, iii. 1. The opposition were not convinced, and the parties N. A. Rev. , CXXIII. 127. came to a dead -lock. IMG:content-2104.png:[blocks in formation] Sir Patrick Spens (Child's Ballads, III. 154). on the errand which, neither to him nor to Perdita, seemed to involve any dead . ly peril. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 195. 3. Mortal; implacable; aiming or tending to kill or destroy: as, a deadly enemy; deadly malice; a deadly feud. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 478. 3. In a manner resembling death; deathly: as, deadly pale or wan. Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Byron, The Giaour, 1. 92. 4. Extremely; exce ively. [Colloq.]