Dead

ded, adj. without life: death-like: at rest, of a ball: cold and cheerle : without vegetation: utter: unerring.— v.t. to deaden, dull.— adv. in a dead manner.— n. the time of greatest stillne , as 'the dead of night.'— adjs. Dead′-alive′ , Dead′-and-alive′ , dull, uneventful; Dead′-beat , quite overcome; Dead′-born , still-born.— n.pl. Dead′-clothes , clothes in which to bury the dead.— n. Dead′-col′ouring , the first broad outlines of a picture.— adjs. Dead′-do′ing ( Spens. ), putting to death, destructive; Dead′-drunk , completely drunk.— v.t. Dead′en , to make dead: to deprive partly of vigour or sensation: to blunt: to le en.— ns. Dead′-eye , ( naut. ), a round, flattish wooden block with a rope or iron band pa ing round it, and pierced with three holes for a lanyard; Dead′-fall , a trap operated by a weight that, when its support is removed, falls upon and kills or holds an animal; Dead′-freight , money paid for the empty space in a ship by a person who engages to freight her, but fails to make out a full cargo; Dead′-head ( U.S. ), one who is allowed, without payment, to ride in a public carriage, sit in a theatre, or hold a privilege having a money value; Dead′-heat , a heat or race in which no one gains the advantage; Dead′-house , the house or room where (in hospitals, police-offices, .) dead bodies are kept till buried: a mortuary; Dead′-lett′er , a letter undelivered and unclaimed at the post-office: a law or ordinance which has been made but never enforced; Dead′-lev′el , a stretch of land without any rising ground: samene ; Dead′-lift , a lift made without help, leverage, .; hence an effort under discouraging conditions.— n.pl. Dead′-lights , storm-shutters for a cabin window.— ns. Dead′line ; Dead′-lock , the case when matters have become so complicated that all is at a complete standstill.— adj. Dead′ly , causing death: fatal: implacable.— adv. in a manner resembling death.— ns. Dead′ly-night′shade , the plant Belladonna (q.v.); Dead′-march , a piece of solemn music played at funeral proce ions, esp. of soldiers; Dead′-meat , the flesh of animals ready for the market.— n.pl. Dead′-men , empty bottles after a carouse.— ns. Dead′ne ; Dead′-nett′le , a genus of plants of the natural order Labiatæ , so called because they resemble nettles but do not sting; Dead′-pay , continued pay dishonestly drawn for men actually dead; Dead′-reck′oning , an estimation of a ship's place simply by the log-book; Dead′-rope , a rope not running in any block; Dead′-set , a determined and prolonged attempt; Dead′-shot , an unerring marksman.— adj. Dead′-stroke , without recoil.— ns. Dead′-wall , a wall unbroken by windows or other openings; Dead′-wa′ter , the eddy water closing in behind a ship's stern as she sails; Dead′-weight , a heavy or oppre ive burden; Dead′-wind , a wind coming directly ahead or opposed to a ship's course; Dead′-wood , pieces of timber laid on the upper side of the keel at either end, usele material; Dead′-work , work, itself unprofitable, which is nece ary as a preliminary, as the opening of a mine.— Dead as a door-nail , absolutely dead; Dead language , one no longer spoken; Dead-men's bells , the foxglove; Dead-men's fingers , a very common cœlenterate belonging to the Actinozoa —also Cow-paps and Mermaid's glove ; Dead-men's shoes , a situation formerly held by some one now dead; Dead's part ( Scots law ), the part of a man's movable property which he may bequeath by will, and which is not due to wife and children.— Be dead set against , to be utterly opposed to.— Put the dead wood on ( U.S. slang ), to gain a great advantage over. [A.S. deád ; Goth. dauths , Ger. todt , from root of die .]