The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
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See Deaconship.
The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.
To make inactive; to render ineffective; as, to deactivate a bomb; to deactivate a machine; to deactivate the alarm.
The act or process of deactivating.
To die; to lose life or force.
A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
precisely accurate and to the point; as, a dead-on feel for characterization.
Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
See under Dead, a.
Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as Beat, n., 7.
Stillborn.
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).
One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
State of the dead.
The quality of being deadly.
A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.
In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly.
The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
To deafen.
an electronic device which amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing.
both deaf and unable to speak; without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. Same as Deaf-mute.
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.
the condition of being a deaf-mute; a congenital deafness that results in inability to speak.
To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
rendered deaf.
extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness; as, a disco with rock music played at a deafening volume.
Lonely; solitary.
Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
To whiten.
Act of bleaching; a whitening.
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.
A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
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.
Share dealt.
To walk abroad.
A walking abroad; a promenading.
A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
The office of a dean.
To endear.
Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
Greatly beloved.
A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.
variant of Dere, v. t. n.
Same as Deary.
A darling.
In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
Same as Darn.
The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
To disjoint.
Precious.
A dear; a darling.
See Dais.
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.
a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
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.
Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Appearance of death.
Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
Resembling death.
The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
Toward death.
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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocid/, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
To gild.
Act of gilding.
To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.
To rave as a bacchanal.
Wild raving or debauchery.
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d/bris.
To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
To deprive of the beard.
To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Disembarkation.
Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
To disembarrass; to relieve.
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
One who, or that which, debases.
In a manner to debase.
Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
With contention.
Controversy; deliberation; debate.
One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
In the manner of a debate.
Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
Dissolute; dissipated.
In a profligate manner.
The state of being debauched; intemperance.
One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Debauchedness.
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