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Show DE g Una&tive; motionlefs Y The tin fold fometimes higher, and fometime B Jowet, according to the quick vent and abundance Carew or the dead fale and fcarcity Nay, there's a time when ev'n the rolling yea n e o th i ar l c a d l ft n ft t e S When not a breath difturbs the droufy main. Lee They cahnot bear the dead weight of unemploye time lying upon their hands, nor the uneafinefs i Locke is to do nothing at all 6. Empty ; vacant This colour often carries the mind away; yea an the fenfe it deceivet it feemeth to the ey a fhorter diftance of way, if it be all dead and con tinued, than if it have trees or buildings, or an other marks whereby the eye may divide it. Bacon Nought but a blank remains, a sead void fpace A ftep of life, that promis'd fuch 2 race, Dryden 7. Ulelefs; unprofitable The commodities of the kingdom they took though they lay dead upon their hands for want o Bacon vent Perfuade a prince that he is irrefiftible, and h will take care not to let {o glorious an attribute li Addifon dead and ufelefs by him 8. Dull unemployed gloomy Travellin covere the over Amanus wit deep fnow, they came in the dead winter to Aleppo K)ZO/[CS There is fomethin fpot of ground whic fmiles amidft all th us a view of the mof DE unfpeakably chearful in is covered with trecs, tha rigours of winter, and give gay feafon in the midt o that which is the moft dead and melancholy Addifom 9. Still; obfcure Their flight was only deferred until they migh cover their diforders by the dezd darknefs of th Hayward night go. Having no refemblance of life At a fecond fitting, though I alter not th Adraught, T muft touch the fame features ove again, and change the dead colouring of th Dryden whole Deapyn /i Time in which there is remarkable ftillnefs or gloom ; as at midwinter and midnight After this life, to hope for the favours of merc then, is to expect an harveft in the dead of winter South In the dead of the night, whén the men an L'Efirange their dogs were all faft afleep At length, in dead of night, the ghoft appear Dryden Of her unhappy lord 7% Deap. w.n. [from the noun.] To lof force, of whatever kind 7o Deabp 70 DEADEN 1. To deprive of any kind of force or {enfation That the found may be extinguithed or deade by difcharging the pent air, before it cometh t the mouth of the picce, and to the open air, i Bacon not probable It is requifite that the tympanum be tenfe, an hard ftretched, otherwife the laxnefs of that membrane will certainly dead and damp the found Holder This motion would be quickly deadened b Glanwille's Scepfis Scientifica countermotions We will not oppofe any thing to them that i hard and ftubborn, but by a foft anfwer deade Burnet's Theory their force by degrees Our dreams are great inftances of that ativit which is natural to the human foul, and which i not in the power of fleep to deaden or abate Spetator of the affeéted nervou fibres as relax the tenfio or deftroy the par ticular acrimony which accafions the painj o what deadens the fenfation of the brain, by proArbuthnot on Diet curing fleep 2. T'o make vapid, or fpiritlefs Th beer and the wine, as well within water a above, have not been palled or deaded at all. Bacon 11. Obtufe; dull; not {prightly: ufed of DEAD-DOING. participial adj. [dead an founds Deftru&ive; killing5 mifchiedo. We took a bell of about two inches in diamete vous_; having the power to make dead at the bottom, which was fupported in the midf of the cavity of the receiver by a bent -flick, i which when it was clofed up, the bell feemed t found more dead than it did when juft before i Bayle founded in the open air 32. Dull frigid affeting g no animated no How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that i compofed in the moft elegant forms of fpeech when it is not heightened by folemnity of phraf Addifon from the facred writings Hold, O dear lord, your dead-doing hand Then loud he cried, I am your humble thrall Spenfer They never care how many other They kill, without regard of mothers Or wives, or children, fo they ca Make up fome fierce dead-domng man liquors 14. Uninhabited Somewha ditches is left unde And have no power at all, nor fhift To help itfelf at a dead-lift wall and dr Arbuthnot 15. Without the.natura] force or efficacy as, ¢ dead fire ; 16. Without the power of vegetation : as a-dead bough 37. [In theology.] The ftate of fpiritua death, lying under the power of fin You hath he quickened, who were dead in trefpafles and fins Epbef. iis 1 T%he Deap. n. f. Dead men Jove faw from high, with juft difdain . The dead infpir'd with vital life again. ~ Dryden The ancient Romans generall dead near the great roads Hudibras [from dead. 1. Deftru&ive ; mortal ; murderous dea Hudibras DeaDp-L1FT. #. [ [dead and /ift.] Hopelefs exigence 13. Taftelefs; vapid; fpiritlefs: ufed of De'apLy. adj buried thei Addifon That the dead fhall rife and live again, is be‘yond the difcovery of reafon, and is purely a matter of faith Locke The tow'ring bard had fung, in nobler lays How the laft trumpet wakes the lazy dead, Smith 4. It is fometimes ufed in a ludicrou fenfe, only to enforce the fignificatio of a word Mettled fchoolboys, fet to cuff ‘Will not confefs that they have done enough Orrery Though deadly weary John had got an impreflion, that Lewis was f deadly. cunning a man, that he was afraid to venArbuthniat ture himfelf alone with Bim z / De'apnEss 1. Frigidity; wan [from dead. o of warmth; wan ardour; want of affection Iron, as foon as it is out of the fire, deadet Bacon's Natural Hiftory fraitways Anodynes are fuch thing EHEG She then on Romeo calls, as if that name Shot from the deadly level of a gun Shakefpeare Did murther her Dry moutning wili decay more deadly bring As a north wind burns a too forward fpring Give forrow vent, and let the fluices go. Dryden 2. Mortal ; implacable The Numidians, in number infinite, are deadl Knolles enemies unto the Turks De'aprLy. adw 1. In a manner refembling the dead Like dumb ftatues, or unbreathing ftones Star'd each on other, and look'd dead/y pale. Shak Young Arcite heard, and up he ran with hafte And afk'd him why he look'd {o deadly wan Dryden 2. Mortally I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he fhall groa before him with the groanings of a deadly wounde Ez. xxx:24 man 3. Implacably ; irreconcijeably ; deftructively His grace removes the defeét of inclination, b difaffectio Rogers taking off our natural deadnefs an towards them 2. Weakaefs of the vital powers ; languor faintnefs ; inadtivity of the f{pirits Your gloomy eyes betray a deadnefs And inward languithing. Dryden and Lee's Ocdipus 3. Vapidnefs of liquors ; lofs of {pirit Deadnefs or flatnefs in cyder is often occafione by the too free admiffion of air into the veffels Mortimere De'apNETTLE. 7./. A weed; the {fam with archangel DEAD-RECKONING. 7z /. [a fea term. That eftimation or conjetture which th feamen make of the place where a fhi is, by keeping an account of her way b the log, by knowing the courfe the have fteered by the compafs, and b re@tifying all with allowance for drift o lee-way; fo that this reckoning is without any obfervation of the fun, moon and ftars, and is to be reétified as ofte as any good obfervation can be had DEAF. adj. [doof, Dutch. 1. Wanting the fenfe of hearing Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf Shake[peare Infeéted mind To their deaf pillows will difcharge their fecrets Shakefpeare The chief defign here intended is to inftruc {uch as are deaf and dumb, and dumb only by con fequence of their want of hearing Holder If any fins affli¢t our lif ‘With that prime ill, a talking wife ‘Till death fhall bring the kind relief We muft be patient, or be deaf Thu While Oh ne'e To mak Prior you may fill be young to me can better hear than fee may fortune thew her fpite me deaf, and mend my fight. Swif? 2. It has #0 before the thing that ought t be heard I will be deaf10 pleading and excufes Nor tears nor prayers fhall purchafe out abufes Shakefpeare Oh that men's ears thould b To counfel deaf, but not ¢o flattery Shakefpeare Whilft virtue courts them; but, alas, in vain Fly from her kind embracing arms Dea to her fondef call blin to he greatef charms Rofc Not fo, for once indulg'd, they fweep the mai Deafto the call, or, hearing, hear in vaim Dryden Hope, too long with vain delufion fed Deaf to the rumour of fallacious fame Gives to the roll of death his glorious name Popz 3. Deprived of the power of hearing Deaf with the noife, I took my hafty flight No mortal courage can fupport the fright. Dryden 4. Obfcurely heard Nor filence is within, nor voice exprefs But a deaf noife of {ounds that never ceafe Confus'd and chiding like the hollow roa Of tides receding from th' infulted (boar Dryden Th |