dead well

A well dug through a stratum im pervious to water and penetrating porous strata: used to allow surface water to pa away, or to pulley. Naut.: Such ropes as do not run in any block or carry off by infiltration refuse water of factories, IMG:content-1865.png:[blocks in formation] dye-houses, . An absorbing-well. [DRAIN-WELL. dead-wind, s. Naut .: A wind blowing dead-on-end against ship. IMG:content-1866.png:[blocks in formation] qu = kw. dead-wood, s. your mercy or in your power. [ U.S. Colloq .] dead-wool, s. Comm.: Wool taken from sheep which have been slaughtered or have died. IMG:content-1867.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1868.png:[blocks in formation] "The beer and the wine or deaded at all."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 385. *dead-bote, *daed-bote, *ded-bote, s. [A. S. dædbóte.] A penalty or compensation paid for any crime or offense. "Boghsamne i ine dede, thet is a men dinge and ded. bote."-Ayenbite, p. 33. dead-en, v. t. [Eng. dead; -en.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. To deprive of sense or sensibility. what deadens the sensation of the brain, by procuring sleep."- Arbuthnot: On Diet. 2. To abate or le en the force or power of any. thing. "This motion would be quickly deadened by countermotions."-Glanville: Scepsis Scientific a . 3. To retard, to delay. 4. To deprive of freshne ; to make dead or stale. II. Gilding : To diminish the glitter, glo , or brilliancy of; to tone down. dead-ened, pa . par . or a. [DEADEN.] dead-en-ing, pr.par ., a. & s. [DEADEN.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip. adj .: (See the verb.) IMG:content-1869.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Gilding: (1) A thin coat of glue, slightly warmed, smeared over a surface that is gilded in distemper, and is not to be burnished. (2) Roughening a surface to diminish the glitter. dead-ing, s. [Eng. dead, v.; -ing.] Steam-engine: The clothing or jacket put around a steam boiler or cylinder to prevent radiation of heat. Called also Cleading or Lagging. the state or condition of the dead, in deadli dead-Ish, a . [Eng. dead; -ish.] Death-like, resembling death. "The lips put on a deadish palene ." Stafford: Niobe , pt. ii. (1611), p. 186. *dead-11-hood, s. [Eng. deadly ; -hood.] The state of being dead; death. hood." Pearson: On the Creed, art. v. dead-li-ne , * dead-lic-ne e, * dede-lyne e, s. [Eng. deadly; -ne .] The state or quality of being deadly. "Dedelyne e. Mortal it as." - Prompt . Parv. "He that had formerly denied the deadline of Laza. rus his sickne , would not suddenly confe his death."- Bp . Hall : Contempl ., bk. iv. 1283 dead-lỹ, *deade-ly, dead-lich, deed-li, dede-lik, *ded-li, *dede-ly, *ded-ly, *ded-lich, *dyad-lich, a. & adv . [A. S. deadlic ; Icel. daudhligr ; Sw. dödlig ; Dan. dödelig ; M. H. Ger. tötlich.] A. As adjective: I. Literally: *1. Of old that which suffered no le than that which inflicted death; subject or liable to death, mortal. "Elye was a deedli man like us."-Wycliffe: James v.7. *2. Suffering death; punished by death. "Al dai dedelik er we for the."- E . Eng. Psalter: Ps. xliii. 22. 3. Causing or procuring death, fatal, mortal. (1) Of the death of the body. " Dedli drynke, yif the i taken it, anoieth hem not."Wycliffe: Select Works , i. 361. (2) Of spiritual death. "Tha syns that er cald dedly IMG:content-1870.png:[blocks in formation] ay in helle."- Hampole : Pricke of Conscience, 3,358. II. Fig .: Implacable, mortal, irreconcilable. "Dionise, which was her dedlich enemy." Gower: iii. 320. Crabb thus discriminates between deadly , fatal , and mortal : " Deadly is applied to what is productive of death; mortal to what terminates in or is liable to death; fatal applies not only to death, but everything which may be of great mischief. A poison is deadly ; a wound or a wounded part is mortal; a step in walking, or a step in one's conduct, may be fatal . Things only are deadly ; creatures art mortal . Hatred is deadly ; whatever has life is mortal. There may be remedies sometimes to coun teract that which is deadly; but that which is mor tal is past all cure; and that which is fatal cannot be retrieved." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) B. As adv.: [A. S. deddlice.] I. Literally : 1. Mortally, fatally, so as to cause or procure death. (1) Of the death of the body : "He wonded the kyng dedely fulle sore."- Langtoft , IMG:content-1871.png:[blocks in formation] Ord. Lang. & Law : A feud so bitter that those engaged in it seek the death of their antagonist or antagonists. *deadly-handed, a. Sanguinary, murderous. "The deadly -handed Clifford slew my steed." Shakesp.. Henry VI., Pt . 11., v. 2. Botany : deafen 5. Flatne , dullne , vapidne . "Deadne or flatne in cyder "-Mortimer. 6. Inactivity, dullne , want of animation. "By the deadne of trade they did want employment." -Clarendon : Civil War , i. 412. 7. Flatne , dullne , want of clearne or sharpne . (Said of sound.)