Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned; as, deep-laid plans.

taken from an undergrround mine; -- as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine; as, deep-mined coal.

Having a loud and sonorous voice.

Profoundly book- learned.

well-established; as, deep-rooted prejudice.

Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

same as deep-rooted.

having a sunken area.

to discard in a deep body of water; -- also used figuratively, to discard contemptuously.

Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

having waters of great depth; as, a deep-water port.

To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

Any animal; especially, a wild animal.

A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.

any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; it is widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of the US Pacific states.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomace/ inhabiting a temperate clime.

One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

One who practices deerstalking.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

A dais.

An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.

A goddess.

See Dev.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

having the external appearance impaired, usually deliberately.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

To cause to fail.

Failure; miscarriage.

Failure.

To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.

A defaulter or embezzler.

To lop off; to abate.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

Dishonor.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

In a defamatory manner.

Defamatory.

Capable of being wearied or tired out.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue.

Weariness; fatigue.

To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.

One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

A defeat; an overthrow.

Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.

An undoing or annulling; destruction.

acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.

Overthrow; defeat.

Changed in features; deformed.

To become clear, pure, or free.

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

To injure; to damage.

Deficiency; imperfection.

Liable to defect; imperfect.

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.

One who advocates or encourages defection.

Having defects; imperfect.

Anything that is defective or lacking in some respect.

Great imperfection.

Full of defects; imperfect.

The act of making foul; pollution.

See Defense.

The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

same as defenseless; as, a defenceless child.

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

Capable of being defended; defensible.

One who defends; a defender.

One who is defended.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

A female defender.

to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

the act of throwing (something or someone) out of a window.

That which serves to protect or defend.

To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.

Defender.

Capability of being defended.

Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.

Capability of being defended; defensibility.

That which defends; a safeguard.

On the defensive.

A defender.

Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

That which carries or conveys.

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

With deference.

The act of delaying; postponement.

One who defers or puts off.

A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

Bidding or manifesting defiance.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

To defibrinate.

Same as Deficiency.

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.

Disfiguration; mutilation.

To delineate.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

morally blemished.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.