Deafening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deafen
Deafen (v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
Deafening (n.) The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.
Deafly (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely.
Deafly (a.) Lonely; solitary.
Deaf-mute (n.) A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
Deaf-mutism (n.) The condition of being a deaf-mute.
Deafness (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
Deafness (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
Deal (n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Deal (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
Deal (n.) Distribution; apportionment.
Deal (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
Deal (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
Deal (n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
Dealt (imp. & p. p.) of Deal
Dealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deal
Deal (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.
Deal (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
Deal (v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
Deal (v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
Deal (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.
Deal (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
Dealbate (v. t.) To whiten.
Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.
Dealer (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
Dealer (n.) One who distributes cards to the players.
Dealfish (n.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
Dealing (n.) The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.
Dealth (n.) Share dealt.
Deambulate (v. i.) To walk abroad.
Deambulation (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading.
Deambulatory (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.
Deambulatory (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
Dean (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Dean (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
Dean (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
Dean (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
Dean (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Deaneries (pl. ) of Deanery
Deanery (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Deanery (n.) The residence of a dean.
Deanery (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
Deanship (n.) The office of a dean.
Dear (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
Dear (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
Dear (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
Dear (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
Dear (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests.
Dear (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
Dear (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
Dear (adv.) Dearly; at a high price.
Dear (v. t.) To endear.
Dearborn (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.
Dear-bought (a.) Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
Deare () variant of Dere, v. t. & n.
Dearie (n.) Same as Deary.
Dearling (n.) A darling.
Dear-loved (a.) Greatly beloved.
Dearly (adv.) In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
Dearly (adv.) At a high rate or price; grievously.
Dearly (adv.) Exquisitely.
Dearn (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
Dearn (v. t.) Same as Darn.
Dearness (n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
Dearness (n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
Dearth (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Dearticulate (v. t.) To disjoint.
Dearworth (a.) Precious.
Deary (n.) A dear; a darling.
Deas (n.) See Dais.
Death (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
Death (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
Death (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Death (v. i.) Danger of death.
Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
Death (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Deathbed (n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
Deathbird (n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Deathful (a.) Liable to undergo death; mortal.
Deathfulness (n.) Appearance of death.
Deathless (a.) Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike (a.) Resembling death.
Deathlike (a.) Deadly.
Deathliness (n.) The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
Deathly (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Deathly (adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Deathsman (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
Deathward (adv.) Toward death.
Deathwatch (n.) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.