Old English | sb | English |
Deacon | n | Borrowed from Greek; the name of an order of ministers or officers of the christian church. 2. a member of the christian church ranking just below bishops and priests and having the functions of assisting the priests and visiting the sick. 3. a protestant layman who assists the minister; a deacon; a bead. |
Deacon | vb | To read aloud each line of a psalm or hymn before singing it. 2. hypocritical posing - to pack fruit or vegetables with the best produce on the top. 3. to slyly alter the boundaries of land. 5. to adulterate. |
Deaconhood | n | Office of a deacon; deacon collectively. |
Deaconship | n | The office or position of a deacon. |
Dead | n | "The Dead" - those who have died; collective term for those who have died. |
Dead | vb | To die. 2. to lose or be deprived of vitality, vigour or force (lit. and fig.) 3. to be ignorant or unprepared. 4. to make dead (lit. and fig;) cause to die, put to death, kill, slay. 5. to deprive of sensation or consciousness; stupefy, benumb, become numb, lose heat or glow. 6. to render spiritually dead. 7. to deprive of active or effective physical quality; to deaden, make dead, extinguish. 8. to check and retard (motion or force); to destroy with force or effect. 9. to cause one to fail in reciting (due to difficult questions fired at the speaker (as he 'deaded' several promising students). |
Dead | adj | Dead, no longer living. 2. fig. not alive; lacking life. 3. of another person: so hated that they are absolutely ignored, she is dead to me. 4. without emotion. 5. stationary; static. 5. without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. 6. unproductive: dead time; dead fields. 7. broken or inoperable. 8. no longer used or required.
9. sports: not in play, once the ball crosses the boundary line, it's dead. 10. of golf: lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. 11. full and complete, as in dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway. 12. exact: dead center; dead aim; a dead eye. 12. experiencing pins and needles, paresthesia. 13. sure to be in big trouble. 14. constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless) Bringing death; deadly. 15. in engineering: not imparting motion or power. |
Dead | phr | "Be a Dead Duck" - to be a failure. |
Dead | phr | "Be a Dead Weight" - be a heavy burden, difficult to move, carry or manipulate because bulky inert. |
Dead | phr | "Become a Dead Duck" - something that is finished, over with; failed. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead and Buried" - (over some issue) - definitely concluded, especially so long ago to be nearly forgotten. 2. bygones, too much water under the bridge, long ago irrelevant. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead As a Door nail" - really or emphatically dead; absolutely dead. 2. the large-headed nails with which doors were studded for extra strength and protection. 3. totally dead or without life along time ago. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead Beat" - exhausted, tired out. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead from the Neck Upwards" - stupid, foolish, dull and slow, and lacking mental alertness. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead in the Water" - doomed, unable to achieve or succeed. 2. unable to function or move, inoperable, originally referred to a ship in distress, later applied in a colloquial sense. |
Dead | phr | "Be Deadly Earnest" - be very serious. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead To The World" - fast asleep, unconscious. |
Dead | phr | "Be Dead Wood" - useless |
Dead | phr | "Blessed Are the Dead, That the Rain Rains" - a once traditional comment of goodwill at a funeral. |
Dead | phr | "Dead and Buried" - long forgotten. |
Dead | phr | "Dead and Gone" - dead, buried and forgotten. |
Dead | phr | "Dead and Done For" - exhausted, worn out. 2. doomed to death or destruction. |
Dead | phr | "Dead as a Door Nail" - dead without hope of resuscitation (fig) without vitality or importance. |
Dead | phr | "Dead as a Stone" - fig. not alive; lacking life. |
Dead | phr | "Dead From the Neck Up" - stupid, or uninterested in any kind of mental, artistic, political etc, activity. |
Dead | phr | "Dead Men Don't Bite" - killing an enemy put an end to one's personal threat or danger. |
Dead men | n | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" - once someone is dead, they can no longer speak to others, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him or her permanently silent. 2. men who have been killed do not give away incriminating evidence. |
Deadman | phr | "Dead Man Walking" - a condemned prisoner walking to the death chamber or other place of execution. 2. someone who is about to die soon. 3. someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss; (though the person may not realize it.) |
Dead | phr | "Dead on" - exactly right, spot on, accurately. 2. very fond of. 3. dealing very strictly with a person or in handling a situation. 2. very good at dealing with. |
Dead | phr | "Dead one" - a horse that has no chance of winning. 2. one doomed, or of the verge of death. 3. a useless, socially impoverished person. 4. fool, simpleton, dill. |
Dead | phr | "Dead on One's Feet" - utterly worn out, exhausted. |
Dead | phr | "Dead on Time" - at exactly, or appointed time. |
Dead | phr | "Dead or Alive" - whether dead (possibly killed) or alive. |
Dead | phr | "Dead to Shame" - no longer capable of feeling shame; callous. |
Dead | phr | "Dead to (Someone/Something)" - impervious to and unaffected by something or someone. |
Dead | phr | "Dead to the World/Wide" (1)- one who declares that herself or himself have broken-off all but minimum contact with fellow members with society. |
Dead | phr | "Dead to the World" (2)- sound asleep. |
Dead | phr | "Dead to Rights" - with no excuse; without excuse. 2. certain, sure. 3. (sl) caught in the act. |
Dead | phr | "Drop Dead!" - go away, I want no dealings with you. |
Dead | phr | "Enough to Wake the Dead" - very loud. |
Dead | phr | "Go Dead" - cease working, operating. |
Dead | phr | "In A Dead Hand" - a term describing land held by a corporation or company and not by one person. |
Dead | phr | "In the Dead of Night" - the darkest and quietest part of night. |
Dead | phr | "Leave For Dead" - to be far superior to. |
Dead | phr | "Let the Dead Bury the Dead" - one's past transgressions should be forgotten. |
Dead | phr | "Over My Dead Body" - only if my most vigorous approach or opposition fails: never. |
Dead | phr | "Play Dead" - remain motionless and appear dead. |
Dead | phr | "Put the Dead Wood On" - procure a grat advantage over. |
Dead | phr | "Run Into a Dead End" - get now ehere in an investigation. |
Dead | phr | "Step Into Dead Men's Shoes" - job opportunity provided by somebody's death. |
Dead | phr | "Shot Stone Dead" - completely dead. |
Dead | phr | "Throw Out the Dead Wood" - get rid of the out of date, or not relevant or useful, unsatisfactory, especially staff in government administration. |
Dead | phr | "Work a Dead Horse" - perform work already paid for, or as a pay off for a debt. |
Dead | phr | "Wouldn't be Seen Dead In, Or With" - to have nothing to do with someone or something. 2. would be to embarrassed or ashamed to do something. |
Dead-alive | adj. | Spiritless, alive but lacking animation. 2. dead, while yet alive, inactive. 3. dull, miserable, down in the mouth. |
Dead-asleep | adj | Fast asleep, in a deep sleep. |
Deadbeat | n | A beat or stroke which stops dead without recoil. 2. a worthless idler, wastrel, who sponges on friends; a loafer; cadger, malingerer. 3. a person down on luck. 4. of things: a deception, failure. |
Deadbeat | adj | Utterly exhausted. |
Deadbeat | vb | To exhaust, wear out. 2. to sponge, loaf, cheat. 3. to waste time, idle. |
Dead-beaten | adj | Exhausted, worn out |
Dead-beatness | n | Quality or state of being a sponger, loafer, out of luck. |
Deadbolt | n | The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged. 2. a kind of lock in which the bolt is held in place by the cylinder |
Deadbolt | vb | To fasten and secure by a dead lock. |
Deadborn | adj. | Stillborn, born dead. |
Dead-box | n | A vehicle used for carrying dead bodies, especaially from a nmine; a hearse (loosely). |
Deadbroke | adj | Completely without money or funds. |
Deadcart | n | A cart on which bodies are carried away during times of pestilence or plague. |
Dead-clothes | n | Clothes adorning the body of a dead person. |
Dead-day | n | Day of one's death. |
Dead-doing | n. | Killing, murdering. |
Dead-doing | adj | Murderous, doing-to-death, homicidal. |
Dead drop | n | (In the parlance of spies and espionage: a location used to secretly items between two persons, without requiring them to meet. |
Dead-drops | n | Sinkholes. |
Dead-drunk | adj | Heavy intoxicated or under the influence of drink. |
Dead duck | n | One who has failed; a hopeless person, one has no chance; a goner. 2. a complete, irredeemable person. |
Deaden | vb | To become dead (lit & fig.): lose vitality, force. 2. to kill. 3. to kill trees by ring-barking. 4. to deprive of vitality, force, or sensibility. 5. to deprive of some effective physical quality; as lustre, flavour, etc' to make dull, etc. 6. to destroy or reduce energy of (motion). |
Dead end | n | A blind alley, cul-de-sac; a dead-end street; a dead-ender. 2. a policy of going nowhere. 3. impasse. |
Dead end | adj | That leads nowhere and having no prospect of advance or promotion. |
Dead end | vb | To bring to a dead end; to meet impasse. |
Dead-end | phr | "To Run Into A Dead-end" - to get nowhere or make no progress in an invitation. |
Dead-ender | n | One whose life is leading nowhere, without hope or promise. 2. a road, street, lane etc with no exit, cul-de-sac, dead-end. |
Dead-end folk | n | Those who live in slums, ghettos, black-streets or the boondocks. |
Dead-end street | n | A cul-de-sac, the vagina (slang) |
Dead-eye | n | A sharp-eyed person. |
Dead-eye | vb | To stare in a cold chilly manner. |
Dead-eyed | adj | Sharp of sight, perspicacious. |
Dead fall | n | A tangled mass of fallen trees. 2. a low-drinking place; rough saloon, hotel, speak-easy. |
Dead-fallow | n | A rest from cultivation of land during both summer and winter (a year long.) |
Dead-fire | n | The luminous appearance called St Elmo's Fire, viewed with superstition supposed to presage death. |
Dead first | adj | First, especially first place in a contest or competition. |
Dead give-away | n | Idiomatically something that is disclosed unintentionally. 2. a complete betrayal. 3. a swindle, deception. |
Dead-hand | n | An expert (generally); one who rarely fails. 2. an oppressive or retarding influence. |
Dead-handed | adj | Oppressively old-fashioned or outdated. |
Deadhead | n. | One admitted to an event without paying to bolster the numbers. 2. one who receives goods and services for nothing. 3. a simpleton, dullard. 4. a person who contributes nothing to an enterprise; an unenterprising person. 5. a lazy, worthless person. 6. a hippie, esp. one devoted to a next-to-nature lifestyle. |
Deadhead | vb | To admit as a "deadhead.' 2. to obtain services, privilege without paying. 3. to drive an empty train, truck, vehicle. 4. to travel free of charge or without paying a fare. 5. to remove dead flowers (deadheading) from a plant. 5. the act or practice of being a deadhead. |
Deadhead | adj | Useless, non-participative. 2. free of charge. |
Deadheading | n | The practice of admitting persons to an event without paying in order to bolster the numbers attending, in order to create there is a strong following. |
Dead Heart | n | "The Dead Heart" - the remote, desert inland region of Australia. 2. the main cemetery of a large city or metropolis. |
Deadhearted | adj. | Callous, dead-in-feeling, insensible. |
Dead-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being callous, insensitive, hardhearted. |
Deadheartly | adv | In a callous, insensitive, unfeeling manner. |
Deadheat | n | A race in which two or more contestants reach (or are level at) the finishing line at the same time. 2. |
Deadheat | vb | To run a dead heat. |
Deadheater | n | One who runs a dead heat. |
Deadhorse | phr | "To Whip or Beat a Dead Horse" - to persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason. 2. to try to get something that can not give anymore. 3. to try to arouse new or fresh interest in something or situation that is either hopeless or already settled. |
Deadhouse | n | Mortuary. 2. a very run-down, unattractive bar or hotel. 3. a room set aside in a lowdown dive, for very intoxicated patrons. |
Deadingly | adv | In a without life manner, so as to deaden. |
Dead-in-shell | n | An embryo in an egg which develops part way but dies before hatching. 2. in an inchoate state, immaturity, elementary stage. |
Deadish | adj | Somewhat dead in various senses. |
Dead knock | n | A knock at the door caused by no visible agent, supposed to presage the death of an occupant of the house or someone closely connected with it. |
Dead knowledge(?) | n | Deceit, cunning, deliberately spun wrong information. |
Dead last | adj | Hopelessly last in a contest or situation. |
Dead latch | n | A kind of latch whose bolt maybe locked so that it cannot be opened from the inside by the handle, or from outside by the latch key. |
Dead lift | n | The exertion of the utmost strength when lifting a weight beyond one's power to move. 2. a hopeless exigence; a position or moment in which one can do more. 3. an effort in which the whole strength is applied to move something. 4. a sheer lift; a supreme effort. |
Dead light | n | A luminous presence seen over putrescent bodies in graveyards etc.; a corpse-light, corpse-candle. |
Deadlihood | n | A deadly condition; the state of the dead; deadhood, deadlihead. |
Dead line | n | (sl) a red light district of a town or city. |
Deadline | n | A line that does not move or run. 2. a line drawn around a military prison, beyond which a prisoner is liable to be shot. 3. a time by which material has to be ready for inclusion in a particular issue of a publication, such as a newspaper. 4. a time limit. |
Deadline | n | "Meet a Deadline" - have something done or ready on time. |
Deadliness | n | The condition of being subject to death. 2. the quality of deadly or fatal. |
Deadlink | n | An internet hypertext link that points to a web page or a website which is permanently unavailable |
Deadload | n | The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it. |
Deadlock | n | A complete standstill, a position in which it is impossible to proceed. 2. a standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; stalemate, impasse. 3. an ordinary lock which opens and shuts only with a key; occasionally, a padlock. 4. a hospital where persons suffering from venereal disease are cared for. 5. in computing, a deadlock occurs when two processes compete for the same resources but in an order that causes a stalemate/deadlock. (See: 'live lock'). |
Deadlock | vb | To bring to a deadlock or complete standstill. |
Deadlocked | adj | Brought to a deadlock or standstill by two forces, contestants being equally matched. 2. stalemated, in an impasse, in a stand-still state. |
Deadlocking | n | The state or condition of being deadlocked. |
Deadlong | adj | During the time one is dead, eternally; permanent;(opposite to 'lifelong). |
Dead loss | n | Total loss: useless; useless, unworkable object. 2. an absolutely useless person, idea or enterprise. 3. a totally unproductive, unprofitable charge. |
Deadly | adv | In a deadly manner, mortally, fatally, excessively. |
Deadly-lively | adj | Offering false joviality |
Deadly Never-green | n | The gallows, the leafless trees. |
Deadly sin | n | Sin that leads to eternal damnation. 2. any of the seven deadly sins: anger, greed, envy, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. |
Deadly Nightshade | n | Atropa Belladonna. 2. (slang) the lowliest kind of sex-worker, prostitute. |
Deadly sin | n | Sin that leads to eternal damnation. 2. any of the seven deadly sins: anger, greed, envy, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. |
Deadman | n | Empty beer bottles at a party, etc. 2. a scarecrow. |
Deadman | phr | "Dead Man Walking" - a condemned prisoner walking to the death chamber or other place of execution. 2. someone who is about to die soon. 3. someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss; (though the person may not realize it.) |
Deadman | phr | "In Deadman's Shoes" - anything that one would not rather have to experience or endure, but cannot a void it. |
Deadman's bells | n | The plant Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove. |
Dead man's fingers | n | The plant, Orchis maculata latifolia. |
Deadman's hand | n | A hand supposedly held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot in the back at Deadwood, South Dakota. |
Deadman's Handle | n | A handle on the controller of an electric train, etc., so designed that it cuts off the current and applies the brakes if the driver released the pressure from illness or some other cause. |
Deadman's shoes | n | Job opportunity provided by someone's death or retirement. |
Deadman's thumb | n | Orchis mascula. |
Deadman's walk | n | The walk of a condemned prisoner to a place of execution. |
Deadmeat | n | A corpse, carcass. 2. something doomed by obsolesence, ruin, or death. 3. a prostitute. 4. a horse which has no chance of winning. |
Dead Men's Fingers | n | Rubus caesius; dewberries. |
Deadneck | n | A very stupid person complete dolt, lacking mentally alertness, dill, fool. |
Deadness | adj. | The condition of being dead in various senses of the verb. 2. want of some physical quality; absence of lustre or colour, dullness, want of taste, flatness, inspidity. |
Dead nettle | n | Laminium masculatum, and other various plants. |
Dead-of-night | adj | In the very dead of night, when few people are around and little happens as the city 'sleeps;' such as in the dead or cold and dark depths of winter. |
Deadpan | adj | Lacking any facial expression; impassive. 2. speaking without expression, especially when one needs to do so; expressionless. |
Dead-reckoning | n | To calculate one current position by using a determined position or fix, and advancing that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course. 2. (colloq.) claim what one is saying is absolutely true. |
Dead run | n | A situation when public transport vehicles run without carrying and accepting passengers; dead-heading. 2. used colloquially: to accept a passage free of charge. |
Dead Sea | n | A small, below-the-sea-level, saltwater lake bordered by Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, known from biblical time. |
Dead Sea Apple | n | The Apple of Sodom - a fruit described by biblical writers anciently as of fair look on the outside, but dissolving into ashes and smoke when plucked. Name given afterwards to the fruit of "Solan sodom." |
Deadshot | n | A person who shots accurately. |
Deadsick | adj | Sick as one can be. |
Dead-slayer | n | One guilty of manslaughter. |
Deadsmooth | adj | Finest covering of smoothness. |
Dead soul | n | Someone who is no longer alive; a decedent. |
Deadstick landing | n | A forced landing of an aircraft when it loses power and forced to land. |
Dead still | adv | Not changing one's position, stance, perhaps even one's facial expressions at all; absolutely still. |
Deadstock | n | A term used to describe goods that have little sales and become out of fashion, before being removed from sale. Sometimes this stock is returned to the shelf and offered for sale with the same tags and at the same price. |
Deadstruck | adj | Paralyse with fear or horror. |
Dead sweat | n | Death sweat. |
Dead time | n | Time in which someone or something is inactive or unable to act productively. 2. any period of one's prison sentence where one is prohibited from associating with fellow prisoners. 3. any time spent in prison that doesn't reduced one's sentence. |
Deadtimed | adj | Inactive, non-productive. |
Dead tongue | n | A language no longer spoken. |
Deadtops | n | Trees whose top foliage is dead. |
Dead water | n | Without a current, still, stagnant water. 2. the eddy water just behind the stern of a ship under way. 3. the stillest side of the tide, when the rise and fall of the tide are at minimum; the neap tide. |
Dead week | n | A week or so before students at universities sit their end-of-year exams; it is a stressful week of cramming. |
Dead weight | n | The unrelieved weight of a heavy, still mass. 2. a heavy burden or stressful, very difficult time. |
Dead well | n | A well used to carry away surface or refuse water. |
Death whisper | n | Sound waves of such high frequency as to be inaudible to human ears, and having the power to kill small animals as fish in the water, under certain conditions. |
Deadwood | n | Wood dead on a tree (lit.) 2. the dead branches, without any further possibility of future growth, of a fruit tree or trees in general 2. a person or thing regarded as useless, unprofitable, a hindrance or impediment to progress. |
Deadwood | phr | "Put the Deadwood On" - to have superiority or power over. |
Dead work | n | Work not directly productive, but done in preparation for future work; work in progress, not finished. |
Deaf | n | "The Deaf" - those suffering hearing impairment, the deaf collectively. |
Deaf | vb | Insensible to certain kinds of sounds. 2. fig. not given ear to; unwilling to hear or listen; inattentive. 3. dull, stupid, absurd, mentally and aurally unaware and unalert. 4. numb, without sensation. 5. of sounds: so dull as to be hardly indistinctly heard; muffled. 6. lacking essential characteristics or quality; hollow, empty, barren, insipid, unproductive. ++++++ |
Deaf | vb | To become deaf. 2. to make deaf; deafen. 3. to down a sound (out) with a louder sound. |
Deaf | phr | "As Deaf as an Adder" - very or totally deaf. |
Deaf | phr | "Be Deaf and Dumb" - be unable to hear or speak. |
Dear | phr | "Fall on Deaf Ears" - be deliberately ignored. |
Deaf | phr | "Give a Deaf Ear To" - to not take heed of what someone is telling you. 2. ignore, take no involvement in the plight of others. |
Deaf | phr | "None as Deaf as Those Won't Hear" - if you tell someone something that he or she does not wish to know, he or she will not pay attention to. |
Deaf | phr | "Turn a Deaf Ear to" - delierately ignore. |
Deaf adder | n | A local name in England for the slow worm. |
Deaf and Dumb | n | Name once applied (now considered vulgar) to deaf people who cannot speak. |
Deaf-blind | adj | Combination of hearing and visual loss. 2. sightless and without hearing. |
Deaf-blindness | n | The state or condition of being without hearing or sight; (also, applied to person with some limited sight and hearing). |
Deaf-dumbness | n | Aphonia; hearing and speech impairment. |
Deaf-ear | n | A cotyledon or seed leaf of some plants. 2. the ear lobe of the domestic fowl. |
Deaf-eared | adj | The auricles of the heart. |
Deafen | vb | To make deafen; to deprive and take power of hearing. 2. to stun with noise. 3. to render (a sound) inaudible; to drown by a louder sound. 3. to become deaf. |
Deafened | adj | Without hearing. |
Deafening | adj | That deafens or stuns with noise |
Deafeningly | adv | In a deafening manner. |
Deaf-friendliness | n | Deaf-friendliness can mean different things to different people. Some perceive it emotionally, such as effortless empathy from hearing people who intuitively know how to meet the needs of the hearing impaired. 2. an instance of providing a deaf-friendly environment for those who are hearing-impaired. |
Deaf-friendly | adj | Providing a deaf-friendly environment for those who are hearing-impaired. |
Deafhood | n | The experience of being Deaf. Deafhood is sometimes referred to as the 'life journey' of a d/Deaf person. Therefore, the experience of Deafhood varies wildly from person to person. Deafhood also refers to the collective experience (past, present and future) of members of the Deaf community. The term 'Deafhood' affirms and underscores the fact that being Deaf has great value for Deaf individuals, for the Deaf community and for society as a whole. Hearing people take note: Those who embrace and celebrate their Deafhood see no reason for medical intervention or a medical 'fix' for their ears because they do not see themselves as having a 'medical problem' that needs attention. |
Deafish | adj | Somewhat or rather deaf. |
Deafly | adv | In a deaf-like manner. 2. without hearing (lit. and fig.) dully, indistinctly, obscurely to the ear. |
Deaf Meet-up | n | A meeting or gathering of people who are deaf, usually on a regular or fairly regular basis. |
Deafness | n | The state or condition of being deaf. |
Deaf nettle | n | The stingless nettle. |
Deaf nut | n | One with no kernel. 2. (fig.)for something hollow, worthless or unsubstantial. |
Deal | n | Part, portion, amount, share. 2. with an ordinal number, expressing an aliquot part of the whole, as half-deal 3. with an indefinite and distributive numerals as each, every, never, some, as every-deal , some-deal. 3. with other and comparitive words, as more, less, better or part of the remainder, the other deal, (the other part); the rst, remainder. 4. the better deal (fig.) the superior, the better. 5. for the worst deal, the most prt , mostly, on most occasions. 6. a part allowed or portioned to any one ; a portion, share, dole. 7. a portion or share of land. 8. an amount or quantity; a considerable amount, a good deal. |
Deal | n | A slice sawn from a log of timber, usually no more than 7 inches long and three inches thick. |
Deal | vb | To deal with, to act in regard to, act upon, administer, handle effectively; to grapple with successfully. |
Deal | phr | "It's a Deal" - it is agreed. |
Deal | phr | "Deal In" - to deal cards to a new player in a poker game. 2. to buy and sell (trade in) a named commodity. 3. handle, do business in. |
Deal | phr | "Deal Out" - to stop dealing cards to a player. 2. administer, deal out. |
Deal | phr | "Deal With" - to handle verbally in some form of artistic expression. 2. to address or deal aa a subject. 3. trade with; do business with. 4. handle, tackle, confront, so as to settle, remedy, reform something. 5. handle some offence. |
Deal | phr | "Deal With the Devil" - an agreement in which a person abandon his or her principles in order to obtain wealth or other benefits. |
Deal | phr | "Get A Fair/Good Deal" - a substantial amount, quality, quite a lot. |
Deal | phr | "Get A Raw Deal" - to be treated unfairly. |
Deal | phr | "Get a Sweetheart Deal" - an agreement negotiate in private without full regard to the interest of those affected. |
Deal | phr | 'It's a Deal" - it is agreed. |
Deal | phr | "The New Deal" - a series of domestic programs, enacted in the US between 1933-38 focusing on the social, economic and financial of Americamn society. |
Deal | phr | "Wheel and Deal" - to energetically enter into a commercial traansaction of dubious propriety. |
Deal-breaker | n | In business a factor or issue that, if it is not settled between the parties, may result in one parties withdrawing from the negotiation. |
Dealer | n | One who deals (divides, distributes, delivers) things, especially cars; a middleman; a monger. 2. a type of stockbroker or trader. 3. one who deals the cards in a card game. 4. one who deals in illicit drugs. |
Dealerdom | n. | The sphere of influence of a dealerb or dealers; dealers collectively. |
Dealership | n | The position, business or priveleges of a dealer; one who that sells items, especially cars. 2. an authorized trading establishment |
Dealing | n | Division, distribution, of goods and services. 2. sharing a part, division. 3. intercourse, friendly or business connexion. 4. trading, trafficking, buying and selling. 5. acting in some specific way towards others; way of acting, behaviour, conduct. |
Dealth | n. | A portion dealt, (wealth) |
Dealmaker | n | One who makes or brokers business or political transactions. |
Dealmaking | n | The making of commercial, financial or political deals. |
Dealsman | n | A partner, a sharer. |
Dealy | adj | An object,esp. a gadget, whose name the speaker can not currently remember. 2. a gizmo, a thing-me-bob. |
Dear | n | A beloved person; used as terms of endearment; beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love. 2. a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child; a dear. |
Dear | adv | With affection; dearly, affectionately, dear. 2. at a great cost or high price. |
Dear | adj | (Not in cognate language) of persons: brave, bold, strenuous, hardy, difficult. 2. glorious, noble, honourable worthy. 3. dearly loved; beloved, darling, dear. 4. with or in a close or intimate relationship; good, near. 5. earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "heartfelt condolences"; earnest, heartfelt. 6: having a high price; costly high-priced ;much too dear costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy. 7. bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. 8. marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. 9. highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious; hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. |
Dear | vb | To make dear or expensive. 2. to raise the price of. 3. to endear. 4. to address a person as 'as dear' |
Dear | phr | "Dear only Knows" - nobody knows; there 's no means of knowing. |
Dear | phr | "Dear to Somebody's Heart" - dera to somebody; much loved or liked by somebody; close to somebody's heart. |
Dear | phr | "Oh, Dear(ie) Me" - exclamation expressing surprize, regret, sympathy,anxiety, and many other emotions. |
Dear | phr | "For Dear Life" - as a matter of extreme urgency. |
Dear | phr | "Ride For Dear Life" - to act as if one's with depends on it (quickly) |
Dear | phr | "Think Dear" - to seem right or proper. |
Dearbought | adj | Bought at a high price. 2. achieved or obtained at great sacrifice. |
Dearheart | n | A term of affection. |
Dearie | n | A little dear, darling, a familiar term of amatory, or conjugal endearment. |
Dearly | adj | Illustrious, splendid, brave. |
Dearly | adv | In a dear manner: loveable, heartfelt, affectionate manner. |
Dearness | n | The quality of being dear. 2. high esteem. 3, great affection; intimacy, mutual affection; fondness. 4. expression or token of affection. 5. the quality of being dear, costly, expensive of price. 6. expensiveness, costliness. |
Dear one | n | My dear; my darling. 2. dearest friend, enemy, foe. 3. |
Dearth | n | An acute insufficiency; dearth, famine, scarcity, shortage. 2. an insufficient quantity or number. dearth, scarcity, paucity. 3. scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. 4. a scarcity of provisions. 5. an absence, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, want. |
Dearworth | n | Precious, valuable, beloved. |
Dearworthily | adv | Worthily, honourably, preciously, richly, affectionately. |
Dear-worthiness | n | State or quality of being precious, having worthfulness, being valuable. |
Dearworthy | adj | Worthy of high estimation; precious, costly. 2. worthy, honourable, noble, glorious. 4. of persons: dearly esteemed, dearly beloved, valuable. |
Deary | adj | Precious, endeared, loved, esteemed. 2. a little costly or expensive. |
Dear year | n | A year of dearth, shortage, deprivation. |
Death | n | The event of dying or departure from life; death, decease, expiry. 2. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. 3. the absence of life or state of being dead. 4. the time when something ends; death, dying, demise. 5. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; death, last. 6. the personification of death. 7. a final state, end, destruction, death. 8. the act of killing.Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation. 9. manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. 10. cause of loss of life. 11. personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. 12. murder; murderous character. 13. (theol.) loss of spiritual life. 14. anything so dreadful as to be like death. 15. cessation, last breath, last things, latter end, swansong. |
Death | phr | "Be At Death's Door" - be on the point of death; dangerously ill. |
Death | phr | "Be At the Gates of Death" - grave; in the dying stage of life. |
Death | phr | "Be Death on Anything" - be unusually attached to; especially fond of. 2. to dislike intensely enough to kill. |
Death | phr | "Be In At the Death" - to be present at the very end. |
Death | phr | "Be On One's Death Bed" - bed or other place where one is dying. |
Death | phr | "Be Sick Of" - thoroughly fed up. |
Death | phr | "Be the Death Of" - to be the cause of someone's death; or cause great amusement, trouble, annoyance. |
Death | phr | "Be the Kiss of Death" - something that brings about ruin. |
Death | phr | "Bore Someone to Death" - to greatly weary someone by dull and uninteresting conversation or by lack of action. |
Death | phr | "(The) Death of Death" - immortality: the aim or goal of the Gilgamesh project. |
Death | phr | "Death Under Shield" - death in battle, war, military confrontation. |
Death | phr | "Do To Death" - overdo, overexpose. |
Death | phr | "Every Door May be Shut But One: Death's Door" - death is inevitable; man is a mortal being. |
Death | phr | "Feel Like Death Warmed Up" - feel exhausted, ill. |
Death | phr | "Have a Death Wish" - the contemplation of action so foolish that it is likely to lead to utter disaster. |
Death | phr | "Hold On Like Grim Death" - hold something tenaciously. |
Death | phr | "Like Death Warmed Up" - to feel exhausted, ill. |
Death | phr | "One's Death Throes" - the last stage before a person or animal dies, whether in unconscious pain, or not. 2. fig. in the last stages in the break-up of an empire, institution, industry. |
Death | phr | "On the Death-knock" - at the very last moment. |
Death | phr | "Put to Death" - execute, kill. |
Death | phr | 'Slowly Bleed to Death" - to be heading in gradual steps towards total ruin. |
Death | phr | "To The Death" - wage war till the death. 2. until somebody is defeated or killed. |
Death | phr | "Work Something to Death" - force something to work excessively, or overexpose something. |
Death | phr | "Work to Death" - to wear oneself with effort, exhaustion. 2. to work some else to death (lit.) |
Death adder | n | A name for the geus Acanthophis of venomous serpents, esp Acanthophis antarctica of australia. |
Death angel | n | The harbinger of death. |
Death bed | n | The bed on which a person dies; the bed of death. 2. the grave. |
Death beam | n | The tree of death; gallows. |
Death bell | n | A bell tolled at the death of a person. 2. a sound in the ears like that of a bell supposed by the superstitious to portend a death. |
Death-bird | n | A bird that feeds on dead bodies, a carrion-feeding birds; a bird supposed to bode death, as the raven. |
Death-blast | n | A violent storm or gale at sea. |
Death-bone | n | Custom among the firstfolk of Australia where a bone is pointed at someone with the intention to cause his/ hers death. |
Deathcare | n | The provisions of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead. |
Death-cup | n | The poisonous mushroom 'Amanita phalloides'. |
Death-day | n | The day on which a person dies. 2. the anniversary of someone death. |
Death-dealer | n | Death-monger: one who peddles death; a murderer of many. |
Death-dew | n | "Ashen as the Cheek with Death-dew's icy cold." - death's icy coldness. |
Death-door knocking | adj | "Many death-door-knocking" soul complain." - those about to die sate of unwellness. |
Death-evil | n | A contagious disease; a plague, as in 'death-evil took him'. |
Death-fire | n | A luminous appearance supposed to be seen over a dead body; (death or dead light) 2. the fire for the burning of people at the stake. |
Deathful | adj | Full of death; fraught with death. 2. mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly. 3. subject to death, mortal. 4. having the appearance of death, deathly. |
Deathfully | adv | in a manner of death and slaughter. |
Deathfulness | n | An appearance suggestive of death. |
Deathhouse | n | A mortuary; a part of a prison where executions take place; the death chamber; the gallows. |
Death-hunter | n | One who furnishes, produces reports of death for newspapers. 2. a vendor of dying speeches or confessions. 3. an undertaker. 4. an ambulance chaser: a lawyer etc. |
Death knell | n | A church-bell ringing to announce the death or passing away of somebody. |
Deathless | adj. | Immortal; not subject to death. |
Deathlessly | adv | In an immortal manner or way. |
Death light | n | Deathfire. |
Death-like | adj | Deadly, fatl, mortal. |
Deathliness | n. | The state or quality of being deathly. |
Deathling | n. | Mortal; one subject to death. |
Deathlock | n | A wrestling move locking one's opponent, causing great pain and submission. |
Deathly | adj | Deathlike; gloomy, pale, etc. as death. |
Deathly | adv | Resembling or to a degree like death. 2. subject to death, mortal, deathly of nature. 3. in a way causing or tending to death. 4. |
Deathman | n. | Executioner |
Deathmonger | n | A dealer in death, such as the buying and selling of military armaments. |
Death pang | n | The pain, suffering and throes of dying. |
Death-ready | adj | Of a prisoner on death row) who has exhausted all their appeals for clemency. 2. of a person prepared to end his/her own life by euthanasia. |
Deathrow | n | The section of a prison which houses prisoner who are about to be executed. |
Death's door | n | The boundary of life; the border between life and death. |
Death's head | n | The head of 'Death' figured as a skeleton; a human skull. 2. a figure or representation of the skull; esp. as an emblem of mortality. Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally 'dead's head') is the German word for the skull and crossbones (or "death's head") symbol. The "skull and crossbones" symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-bones (femurs), most often depicted with the crossbones being behind some part of the skull.
The term Totenkopf is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use. |
Death-quell | n | Death by killing; homicide. |
Deathshildy | adj | (O.E.: 'shildy' - guilty)- of someone who is guilty of a serious crime and condemned to death. |
Death-sick | adj | Mortally ill or terminally ill. |
Death-sickness | n | The state or condition of being mortally or terminally ill. |
Death-sleep | n | Eternal sleep. |
Deathsman | n | An executioner; one who puts another to death. |
Death song | n | A song immediately before death to commemorate the dead; (a custom among australian erdfolk). |
Death-sough | n | The last breath of a dying person. |
Deathstead | n | Location of death (ones); place of execution. 2. a place of great bloodstead, killing, disaster. |
Deathstick | n | A cigarette {sl) |
Death-still | adj | Completely still; motionless. |
Deathstruck | pp. | Killed. 2. struck down by a mortal wound or disease. |
Death-throe(s) | n. | Dying stage; the agony of death; the death spasm or struggle. |
Death-time | n | Time of one's death; |
Death toll | n | The number of dead as a result of war, natural disaster or other incidents. |
Death trap | n | Any place or structure which is dangerous or unhealthly without its being suspected. |
Deathward | adj. | Dying, heading towards death. 2. towards or tending towards one's death. |
Death watch | n | A watch or vigil besides the dead or dying. |
Death-wave | n | Phenomena along the coast of Britain, where gaint waves' sudden inundation took thousands of lives; bane-wave, tsunami, ettinwave. |
Death-weight | n | A small weight place on the eyelids of the dead to keep them closed. |
Death wish | n | A conscious or unconscious wish for the death of another. 2. a desire, esp. subconscious, for the death of oneself or someone else. |
Death-worship | n | In some primitive religions, deities associated with death and sometimes the practice of human sacrifice. 2. a term often used in a derogatory manner to accuse certain groups of morally abhorrent practices which put no value on human life, or seem to glorify death. |
Deathworthy | adj. | Ripe to be killed, not worthy of living; worthy off death. |
Death-wound | n | A wound causing death; a mortal wound. |
Death wright | n | A public executioner. 2. a serial killer or mass murderer. |
Deathy | adj | Of the nature or characteristic of death. 2. to a degree resembling death. |
Deave | vb. | To deafen, to wax deaf, deave. 2. to stun or stupefy or perplex with noise. 3. to bewilder, worry, confuse esp. by dinning in one's ears. |
Deaving | n | State or condition of being deavely. |
Deaveliness | n | Solitude, loneliness, want of company, solitariness. |
Deavely | adj | OE. sense maybe 'where nothing is heard'. 2. lonely, solitary and silent. 3. deafly. |
Deche | vb. | Daub, Smear, |
Deed | n | The act of bravery; a feat, esp. with deeds of arms. 2. doings, ado, to-do. 3. deed, a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it. 2. something that people do or cause to happen; act, deed, human action, human activity, duty. 3. that which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. 4. illustrious act; achievement; exploit. 5. power of action; agency; efficiency. 6. to be, both will and deed, made free. 7. fact; reality; -- whence we have in deed. 8. in law a sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract ; (the term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate. 9. performance; -- followed by of. |
Deed | vb | To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his earthly things to his eldest son. |
Deed | phr | "In Deed" - in fact, in reality, in with, in truth. |
Deed | phr | "With The Deed" - in the act of. |
Deed-bote | n | Boot, amends, expiation. 2. amends-deed, penance, repentance. |
Deed-box | n | A strong-box for keeping deeds and other documents. |
Deed-doer | n | One who does or performs a deed. |
Deeded | adj | Characterized by deed. |
Deedful | adj | Full of deeds, active, effective. |
Deedfully | adv | Actively, effectively. |
Deedholder | n | One who holds a deed. |
Deedily | adv | Actively, busily. |
Deeding | n | Actual doing; carrying out in deed. 2. activity, action, doing. |
Deedless | adj | Without action or deed. 2. of persons: performing no deeds; doing nothing, inactive, without activity. 3. incapable, helpless. |
Deedworthy | adj | Actions worthy of praise or commendation. |
Deedy | adj | Full of activity, active. 2. earnest, serious. 3. actual, real. |
Deem | n. | Judgement, opinion, thought, surmise. |
Deem | vb | From Old English dēman: to judge, determine, reckon, decide, decree, sentence, condemn, assign, deem, consider, think, estimate, compute, examine, prove, doom, condemn, praise, glorify, tell, declare. 2. to keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; deem, hold, view as. 3. to decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn, doom. 4. to account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. 5. to be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. 6. to adjudge; decree. 7. to dispense (justice); administer (law). 8. to think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose. 9. to hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account. |
Deem | phr | "On One's Self Deem" - by one's own reckoning. |
Deemed | adj | Thought, supposed, judged; deemed. |
Deemer | n | Judge; dempster, one who deems; a deemer, one who opines. 2. one who censures or unfavorably criticises. |
Deeming | n | Judging, judgement. 2. the forming or expanding of an opinion or judgement. 3. thinking, opining, censuring, or surmising. |
Deemster | n | A judge. |
Deemstership | n | Office of a deemster or judge. |
Deep | n | The deep part of a sea, ocean, main, lake, river. 2. deep place in the earth. a deep pit, cavity, depression on a surface. 3. the middle and most intense part of a (winter's) night (the depths) when cold, stillness, or darkness is the most intense. 4. deep, mysterious or unfathomable matters or thought. 5. sagacious thought or thought in getting to the bottomof things or matters; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter". 6. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor; trench, deep, oceanic abyss. 7. literary term for an ocean; "wights of the deep". |
Deep | vb | To make deep, deeper. 2. to make deep, depen, penetrate. 3. to plunge or immerse deeply. |
Deep | adj | Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "in a deep sleep". 2. marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts". 3. having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water" "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "waist-deep". 4. very distant in time or space; "deep in the woods". 5. extreme; "deep happiness". 6. having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "in deep steven". 7. strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red" 8. relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep snow". 9. extending relatively far inward. 10. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness".;"deep night". 11. large in quantity or size. 12. with head or back bent low; "a deep bow". 13. of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written 14. without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark derne". 15. cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. 14. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; abstruse, deep, recondite. 16. exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy. |
Deep | adv | To a great depth; far down; deeply, deep. 2. to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; late. 3. to a great distance. 4. to a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply, as "deep-knowing in books". Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-seated, deep uddered kine." 5. reaching deep going. |
Deep | phr | "Deep as Well" - difficult to assess or understand , because he/she keeps his/her thoughts, plans to himself. |
Deep | phr | "Deep in Thought" - temporary wholly engaged in thinking, either beacuse one is in a pensive mood, because one is thinking carefully about something or considering a problem or difficulty. |
Deep | phr | "Deep of Night" - midnight. |
Deep | phr | "Drink Deep" - to drink copiously. |
Deep | phr | "Go Off the Deep End" - to give away to emotion or rage. 2.'to let oneself go' |
Deep | phr | "In Deep Water" - in a difficult or embarrassing situation. |
Deep | phr | "Play a Deep Game" - to show cunning. |
Deep | phr | "Still Waters Run Deep" - one can be more emotional, knowledgeable than first appears. |
Deep | phr | "Throw In At the Deep End" - to make someone do something difficult, esp. a job, without preparing them for it or giving them any help. |
Deep blue | adj | Dark or darkish blue. |
Deep-breathing | n | Breathing with long breaths, especially as a form of exercise. |
Deep-brooding | n | Pensive, thoughtfully sad. |
Deep-browed | adj | Intellectual. 2. of thinking deeply, pondering. |
Deep dive | vb | To analyse a mtter thoroughly and profoundly. 2. fig. to drill down |
Deepdown | adj | Fundamentally; in essence; in reality; really. |
Deep-drawing | n | (Of ships) requiring great depth to float in. |
Deep-drawn | adj | Drawn deeply from the depths (fig. esp. of the breast or bosom). |
Deep-drenched | adj | (Lit and fig.)- soaked with water or other liquids. 2. fig. saturated or immersed in something, as 'deep-drenched in the sea of care'. |
Deepen | vb | To make or become deep or deeper (in various senses); to increase the depth of. |
Deepened | adj | Make deep or deeper. |
Deep-end | n | The art of a swimming pool with relatively deep water. 2. a situation where expertise or experience. |
Deepener | n | One who, or that which, deepens. 2. a hypnotic suggestion designed to send the listener deeper into a state of trance. |
Deepening | n | The action of making something deeper, such as a bay or river by dredging. 2. the process of intensifying colour, shadow, etc. 3. a deepening of any surface. |
Deepeningly | adv | Reaching more deeply or profoundly (in various senses). |
Deepfelt | adj | Felt deeply emotionally. |
Deepfetch | vb. | Bring or fetch from the deep |
Deep-fetched | adj | Fetched from deep (or depths) of or from the bosom, or far below the surface of things; ('farfetched'). |
Deep freeze | vb | A refrigerator, fridge or freezer of a fridge. 2. a period of extremely cold weather, ssp. one with heavy snowfall. |
Deep freeze | vb | To subject to deep freezing. |
Deep-inside | adv | At heart; deep down, really. |
Deepish | adj | Somewhat deep or profound. |
Deep kiss | n | An act involving considerable amount of tongue contact and erotic arousal. |
Deep-laid | adj | Thoughtfully, and meticulously carried out, often with cunningness. |
Deeply | adv | At depth; in a deep way. 2. to a deep extent. 3. profoundly. |
Deepmost | adj. | Deepmost, deepest, most profound. |
Deep mourning | n | Mourning symbolized by great grief. |
Deep-mouthed | adj | Having a deep or capacious mouth, of persons, geographical features. |
Deepness | n | The quality of being deep (in various senses) depth, profundity. 2. a deep place, an abyss; a deep part of the sea. |
Deep North | n | The state of Queensland, Australia, used in a derogatory way by other Australians. |
Deep-read | adj. | Well read, deeply or widely read; skilled or knowledgeable by widespread and profound reading. |
Deep-rooted | adj | Having roots deeply implanted. 2. (fig.) deep-seated of feelings, opinions, prejudices |
Deep sea | adj | Of or belonging to the deeper or deepest part of the sea or ocean which no light penetrates; bathyonic. 2. of the sea out of the sight of land |
Deep-sea spreading ridge | n | Places on the ocean floor where lithospheric plates separate and magma erupts. About 80 percent of the Earth's volcanic activity occurs on the ocean floor. |
Deep-seated | adj | Having its seat or origin deep far beneath the surface, as a 'deep-seated hatred'. 2. (of disease)superficial. |
Deepseen | adj. | Seen from afar. 2. that seen or has been seen deeeply into things; a microscopic looking or drill down |
Deepship | n | Depth, profound mystery. |
Deep-sighted | adj | Profound, incisive, as 'wholesome and deep-sighted advice' |
Deep-six | n | The grave, tomb, with reference to grave being dig to a depth of six feet. |
Deep-sleep | n | A coma, cataphor. 2. somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness. 3. in science fiction: artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of undertaking distance travel to other planets. |
Deepsome | adj | Somewhat deep or profound. |
Deep South | n | A geographical and cultural term for some of the southern states of the US. |
Deep thinker | n | A person whose thoughts are profound. |
Deep throat | n | A person involved within an organization who supplies anonymously information concerning misconduct by other members of the organization, as in the Watergate affair; (after a porno-film (1972) named or title). |
Deep time | n | The concept of “deep time” dates back to 18th-century geologist James Hutton, who proposed that Earth was a lot older than 6,000 years, as most people thought at the time. |
Deep time | adj | Ancient, prehistoric. |
Deep water | n | Water deep enough for deep-draft ships, esp. ocean-going ones. |
Deep Web | n | Part of the World Wide Web that is not able to be discovered by means of a standard search engine, including password-protected or dymnic pages or encrypted networks. See 'Dark Web'. |
Deer | n | A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae; or one of several other similar species. 2. the meat or flesh of such animals; venison, deermeat, deerflesh. 3. a beast, animal generally, a quadruped, but not a fish or bird; hart, stag, buck, fawn. |
Deer | phr | "Deer in the Headlights" - in a fear-induced state, scared stiff (lit. and fig.)when a person seems incapable of moving. |
Deer-berry | n | Gautheria procumbus. |
Deerdom | n | The world of deers; deers collectively. |
Deer-eyed | adj | Having soft or languid eye; dewy-eyed; doe-eyed.. |
Deer flesh | n | Deermeat, venison. |
Deer fold | n | In OE. an enclosure or cage for wild beasts in the ampitheatre. |
Deer grass | n | Meadow-beauty. |
Deer hair | n | A rushy plant. |
Deerhood | n | State or quality of being a deer. |
Deerhound | n | A breed of dog used for hunting. |
Deerkind | n. | Beast-kind as distinct from human-kind |
Deerlick | n | A small spring or spot of damp ground, impregnated with salt, potash, where deer come to lick. |
Deerlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the deer. |
Deermeat | n | Venison, deer flesh. |
Deer-skin | n | A leather from deer skin. |
Deerstalker | n | One who stalks and hunts deer. 2. a low-crowned close fitting hat worn by a deerstalker. |
Deer-tiger | n | The puma or cougar. |
Deft | adj. | Gentle, meek, humble 2, skillful, dexterous, clever. 3. neat, tidy, trim, spruce, handsome, pretty. |
Deftly | adv | In a deft manner. |
Deftness | n | The quality of being deft. |
Delf | n, | Hole, cavity, pit, trench dug into the earth; eg. for irrigation or drainage channels in the fen districts of eastern England. 3. an excavation or delve in or into the earth (or stratum of earth) where minerals are dug from; a quarry or mine. 4. a sod, or cut turf. 5. grave, burial place. 6. the act of delving: a thrust of a spade., dark inn |
Dell | n | In physical geography, a dell is a small secluded hollow, (implying also) grassy, park-like, usually partially-wooded valley. The word "dell" comes from the Old English word dell, which is related to the Old English word dæl, modern 'dale'. Dells in literature are often portrayed as pleasant safe havens. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with dingle, although these specifically refers to deep ravines or hollows that are embowered with trees. |
Delve | n | A cavity in or under the ground; excavation, pit, den, delf. 2. a hollow or depress in a surface. 3. a wrinkle. 4. the act of delving or plunging of a spade into the ground. 5. the burrowing of an animal. 6. a slope of a hill; a brae. |
Delve | vb. | To dig, excavate, delf, delve, plough, turn over the soil; to dig, labour or turn over with a spade. 2. to make, or put a hole in the ground by digging, pit. 3. to bury a corpse; to exhume a body. 4. to obtain by digging. 5. to penetrate by digging. 6. to dint or indent. 7. to make a laborious search for a 'buried' treasures; fig. to make a laborious search for information, the truth, facts. 8. to work hard, slave drudgely. 9. to make a sudden dip or deep descent. 10. to dip with violence. 11. to plunge into water. |
Delved | adj | Dug, excavated, ploughed. 2. exhumed; dug up. 3. searched for diligently (for information, truth, facts). |
Delver | n | One who delves, as a tiller of the ground. |
Delving | n | The act of one who delves. |
Demend | n | A judge, (deem & end): see almightend, friend, fiend, healend, shapend, slinkend, waldend. |
Den | n | Lair or habitat of a wild boar. 2. a place hollowed out of the ground; cave, cavern, pit, cavity, hollow. 3. a place of retreat or abode, a lair. 4. a secret lurking place of thieves. 5. a small confined room or abode - one unfit for human habitation. 6. a bachelor den: a small secluded room. 7. a deep hollow between hills; a dingle. |
Den | vb | To ensconce or hide oneself in a den. 2. to live or dwell in a den. 3. to escapen or hide oneself in a den. |
Den | phr | "A Den of Thieves" - a meeting place of thieves and rogues. |
Den | vb | "Den Out" - to drive an animal from its lair or den. 2. to unearth. |
Den | phr | "Den Up" - to retire into a den for the winter, to hibernate. |
Den-dreadful | n | Dreadful as dens of wild beasts: a place of dread. |
Dene | n | A narrow wooded valley; a vale. |
Dene-hole | n | (Dane's hole) a popular belief that the Danes (in Danelaw) used a 'dene-hole' as a place to hide plunder, booty. |
Den mother | n | US The female leader of a den of Cub Scouts. 2. a woman who plays a supportive or protective role for a particular group of people, a matriarch. |
Denned | adj | Ensconced, hidden, concealed (in a den or cave). |
Denning | n | Ensconcing, hidden or concealing in a den or cave. |
Dent | n. | OE (Dynt) 'dent' an alternative spelling of 'Dint" (see: 'Dint') - a stroke a blow; esp. with a weapon or sharp instrument; usu. as a blow dealt in battle. 2. a striking, dealing of blows, rigorous wielding of the sword or other weapons, 3. a range or reach of a stroke; to aim a striking blow at. 4. striking a stroke or clap of thunder; thunder-dent or thunderbolt. |
Dent | vb | To aim a striking or penetrating blow at. |
Depe | vb. | To immerse as a religious rite; immerse, submerge, plunge |
Depth | n | The quality of being deep; lowness. 2. the deep part of a sea, lake or river. 2. deep place in the earth. a deep pit, cavity, depression on a surface. 3. the middle of a winter's night when cold, stillness, or darkness is the most intense. 4. deep, mysterious or unfathomable or thought. 5. the quality of being deep. 7. the measurement of distance. 8. of thoughts: profundity, abstruseness. 9. the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep. 10. the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet. 11. figuratively, the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. 12. in computing, colors of the total palette of available colors. 13. in art, photography the property of appearing three-dimensional. 14. literary, chiefly in the plural): the deepest part and, usu. of a body of water. 15. literary, chiefly in the plural: very remote part, as 'in the depths of the night'. 16. the most severe part, as 'in the depths of winter'. |
Depth | phr | "In Depth" - of person and their mental faculties or actions: profundity, with great insight, sagacity or penetration. 2. of feelings, moral quality or state: intensely profundity; in-depth. 3. a quality or condition such as silence, colour, focus, in-depth field: intensify. 4. secret, mysterious, unfathomable; in-depth. |
Depth | phr | "Out of One's Depth" - in water to deep for one to reach the bottom without sinking; fig. beyond one's understanding or capacities. 2. to find that some issue is complicated or too difficult. |
Depthen | vb | To make more deep or profound. |
Depthening | n | The act of making deeper or profound. |
Depthless | n | Without depth, shallow, not deep or profound; superficial. 2. of depth which cannot be sounded, fathomless, abysmal. |
Depths | n | The deepest parrt. 2. a very remote part. 3. of an emotion, mystery: the lowest part, nadir. 4. the most severe part, as 'the depths of winter'. |
Dere | n | Harm, hurt, injury, trauma. |
Dere | vb. | To hurt, harm, injure. 2. to do harm, to do hurt. 3. to trouble, grieve, vex, annoy, incommode. |
Dereful | adj. | Full of grief, sorrowful, dering. |
Dereful | adj. | Trouble, tribulation, hurt, 2. bold , daring, courageous. 3. strong, sturdy, stout 4. vigourous, forceful. violent. 5. painful, grievous, terrible, dreadful, cruel. 6. troublesome, hard, difficult. |
Dering | adj | Hurtful, harmful, injurious. 2. annoying, troubling, grieving, vexing, imcommoding. |
Derne | n | A secret, secrecy, concealment, privacy. 2. secret, or refuge place. 3. an obscure language. 4. darkness, obscurity. |
Derne | adj | Secretive, dark, concealed, evil, deceitful, sly, underhand, unrevealed. 2. of place, secretive, exotic, little known, dark, dreary, dire, deep, profound, hidden. 3. of a person: secret in purpose or action, underhanded, sly, crafty. 4. of a person: treated as a confidant or confidency, entrusted with hidden matters, privy. 5. of a matter or situation: not made known, kept unrevealed or private, not divulged. 6. of a place: secret, not well-known, private. 7. of place: serving well to conceal, as lying out of the way; hence, dark, drear, sombre, wild, solitary. |
Derne | vb | To hide, conceal, keep secret. 2. to hide, to hide oneself, conceal oneself. |
Derne | phr | "Hold, Keep a Thing Derne" - keep secret, not well known, private. |
Derned | adj | Hidden, concealed, secreted. |
Dernful | adj | Full of secrets and secrecy+++++ |
Dernhood | n | The state of being secretive, concealed or hidden. |
Dernish | adj | Somewaht secret or sly; lurking, half-hidden. |
Dernly | adv | In a secret, concealed or hidden manner. 2. dismally, direly, drearily. |
Dernship | n | Secrecy. |
Derny | adj | Tending towards secrecy, secretive, hiding away, concealed |
Derve | vb. | To labour (only in OE.) 2. to trouble, grieve, hurt, molest, afflict. |
Devil | n | (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell; Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness. 2. an evil supernatural being devil, fiend. 3. a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil". 4. a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man). 5. a cruel wicked and inhuman person; monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre. 6. son of wickedness, the wicked-one, father of all lies, devil of all devils, son of darkness, angel of the bottomless pit, man of sin. |
Devil | vb | To cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, rile, irritate, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil. |
Devil | n | A piece of wood soaked in resin. |
Devil | n | Spirit, temper, energy, as 'he's got the devil in him'. |
Devil | phr | "A Devil of a Fellow" - an extreme example of some aspect of something or some type of person. |
Devil | phr | "As Devil Loves Holy Water" - that is, not at all.(the belief that Holy water drives the Devil away0. |
Devil | phr | "Be a Devil" - be bold, take a risk or a chance. |
Devil | phr | "Be a Devil For" - to be very fond of. |
Devil | phr | "Be the Devil with Something" - to thoroughly mar or spoil. |
Devil | phr | "Better the Devil You Know" - the bad thing you are aware of is better than the other of which you are unaware. |
Devil | phr | "Between the Devil and Deep Blae Sea" - in a dilemma, with a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives. |
Devil | phr | "Devil a One" - not even one. |
Devil | phr | "Devil on Two Sticks" - diabolo; an old toy. |
Devil | phr | "Devil's Own" - very difficult or unusual. |
Devil | phr | "Devil Take the Hindmost" - I don't care what happens to others. |
Devil | phr | "Devil with the Women" - a philandeer, flirt, womanizer. |
Devil | phr | "Hold a Candle to the Devil" - play safe by keeping on good terms with both sides in a dispute. |
Devil | phr | "Make Like the Devil" - to invest with the character of the devil. |
Devil | phr | "Play Devil With" - make worst, misbehave. 2. to ruin, destruct. |
Devil | phr | "Pull devil, Pull Baker" - lie, cheat, wrangle away. Have a go at each other. |
Devil | phr | "Pull the Devil by the Tail" - to be in difficulty or dire straits. 2. to struggle constantly against adversity. |
Devil | phr | "Talk of the Devil" (and here he is) - especially in reference to a person who unexpectedly appears when is talking of him. |
Devil | phr | "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil" - of obvious maening. |
Devil | phr | "The Devil and All That" -everything right or wrong; the whole concluded lot; all or everything bad. |
Devil | phr | "The Devil and All To Do (Much Ado)" - a world of trouble and turmoil. |
Devil | phr | "The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands" - when people don't have enough to do, they get into trouble. |
Devil | phr | "The Devil Sick Will be A Monk" - said of someone who, in times of illness or difficulty, prays and makes fervent promises which are forgotten the moment pain passes. |
Devil | phr | "The Devil Takes Care of/ Looks After/ His Own" - bad people seem to succeed (in preference to good ones) |
Devil | phr | "The Devil Sick Would be a Monk" - said of persons who in times of sickness or danger make pious resolutions, but forget them when danger is past and health recovered. |
Devil | phr | "When the Devil is Blind" - at a date or time infinitely remote; never. |
Devil | phr | "Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Songs" - a saying from about the 1740s originating with Charles Wesley, when he adapted the music of popular songs to promote the use of his hymns. |
Devil beater | n | A reverend, chaplain, clergyman, priest, devil-driver, godsmith, minister of religion. |
Devil crab | n | The velvet swimming crab, Necor puber. 2. a piece of round crab meat crumbed and fried. |
Devil-dealer | n | A person who has dealings or makes deals with the devil; a sorcerer. |
Devil dog | n | A wild, vicious dog. 2. (slang) a US marine. |
Devildom | n | The dominion, domain, realm, rule, sway or exercise of a diabolic power. 2. the condition of the devils. |
Devil fire | n | Will of the wisp. |
Devilfish | n | THe octopus. |
Deviless | n | A female devil. |
Devilhood | n | The condition and estate of the devil. |
Devilish | adj | Somewhat of a devil. |
Devilish-holy | adj | Wicked and holy at ehe same time. |
Devilishness | n | The state or quality of being devilish. |
Devilkin | n | An imp or lttle devil. |
Devilled | adj | Possessed of the devil. |
Devilless | adj | Without or an abscence of a devil or devils. |
Devil-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the devil. |
Devilling | n | The pupillage or apprenticeship of a prospective advocate or barrister. |
Devil-lore | n | Devillore; knowledge, study, doctrine, or history regarding devils and/or demons; demonology. |
Devil-may-care | adj | wildly reckless. |
Devil's apple | n | Datura stramonium,, the thorn apple. 2. Solanum capsicoides, the cockroach berry is a flowering plant in the Solanaceae family. It is native to eastern Brazil but sometimes becomes an invasive weeds in tropical regions. 3. Solanum linaeanum, a poisonous nightshade species native to South Africa and is considered an invasive weed in Australia and New Zealand. |
Devil's arrows | n | Three remarkable 'Druid' stones near Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire. |
Devil's bird | n | The magpie. |
Devil's bit | n | 'Devil's bit" - any of the various plants whose roots look bitten off, especially a kind of scabious (succisa pratensis). |
Devil's book | n | Playing cards. |
Devil's bones | n | (Slang)The dice. |
Devil's Bread | n | A mushroom that grows on woodland dstumps, trees, logs. |
Devil's Bridge | n | A popular name in mountainous areas for bridges built over deep ravines and chasms. |
Devil's candle | n | Mandrake: from its shining appearance. |
Devil's candlestick | n | Phallus impudicus, the ground ivy. |
Devil's claw | n | Harpagopyhlum procumbens. |
Devil's daughter | n | A shrew. |
Devil's door | n | A small door in thnorth wall of some churches, which used to be opened at baptisms and communions to "let the Devil Out". The north used to be known as the 'Devil's side", where Satan and his legion lurked to catch the unwary. |
Devil's dung | n | Asafoetidae |
Devil's finger | n | Belemnite or starfish. |
Devil's grass | n | Cynodon dactylon, also known dog's tooth grass, couch grass, wiregrass and scutch grass, is a grass that originated in Africa. Although it is not native to Bermuda, it is an abundant invasive species there. It is presumed to have arrived in North America from Bermuda, resulting in its common name. In Bermuda it has been known as crab grass (also a name for Digitaria sanguinalis). |
Devil's grip | n | Bornholm disease, epidemic pleurodynia or epidemic myalgia is a disease caused by the Coxsackie B virus or other viruses. It is named after the Danish island of Bornholm where an outbreak was one of the first to be described. Symptoms may include fever and headache, but the distinguishing characteristic of this disease is attacks of severe pain in the lower chest, often on one side. The slightest movement of the rib cage causes a sharp increase of pain, which makes it very difficult to breathe, and an attack is therefore quite a frightening experience, although it generally passes off before any actual harm occurs. The attacks are unpredictable and strike "out of the blue" with a feeling like an iron grip around the rib cage. |
Devil's guts | n | The creeping buttercups. 2. the dodder plant. |
Devil's horse | n | Praying mantis. |
Devil's Horsemen | n | The Mongol warriors of the C12th. |
Devilship | n | The office or condition of the devil. |
Devil's Ivy | n | Epiprenum dureum (Pothos). |
Devil's mark | n | During the time of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, it was believed that the Devil placed upon his human brides, the witches, a special mark that was insensitive to pain. |
Devil's milk | n | The sunspurge; from its poisonous milky juice. |
Devil's mint | n | A succession of things hurtful or offensive as if the devil himself were at work coining them. |
Devil's neck cloth | n | The hangman rope. |
Devil's needle | n | A dragonfly. |
Devil's own | adj | Particularly devilish, highly unpleasant or evil. 2. intense. |
Devil's shoestrings | n | Goats-rue; tephrosia vrginiana from its tough thin roots. |
Devil's stick | n | The manipulation of the devil stick (also devil-sticks, devilsticks,) is a form of gyroscopic juggling, consisting of manipulating one stick or baton, between one or two other sticks held one in each hand. The baton is lifted, struck, or stroked by the two control sticks ('handsticks', 'sidesticks', or 'handles'), stabilizing the baton through gyroscopic motion. Devil sticks are believed to have originated in China in the distant past, in the form of simple wooden juggling sticks. Manipulating devil sticks is one of the circus arts and is sometimes called devil-sticking, twirling, sticking, or stick juggling |
Devil's stinkpot | n | Phallus impudicus |
Devil's stones | n | The field gromwell, probably from its hard fruits. This plant is reputed to have contraceptive qualities. |
Devil's Tinder | n | Sulphur, brimstone. |
Devil's walking stick | n | Aralia spinosa, commonly known as devil's walking stick, is a woody species of plant in the genus Aralia, family Araliaceae, native to eastern North America. The various names refer to the viciously sharp, spiny stems, petioles, and even leaf midribs. It has also been known as Angelica-tree |
Devil wind | n | The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry downslope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California. ... Also sometimes called "devil winds", the Santa Anas are infamous for fanning regional wildfires and causing allergies among the population. |
Devilwood | n | Osmanthus americanus. |
Dew | n. | The moisture deposited in minute drops on any cool surface. 2. whisky illicitly distilled. 3. marijuana. |
Dew | vb | To give or produce dew. 2. to distill or exude as dew. 3. to wet with dew, bedew. 3. to be steeped with dew. 4. to cause to descend or drop as dew, to instill. 5. to be moist, to exude moisture. |
Dew | phr | "Love is a Dew which Falls on Lily and Nettle alike" - the path to love is not always smooth and often troublesome. |
Dew-beam | n | A ray of light reflected from a dewdrop. |
Dew-beater | n | One who beats or shakes off dew in front of others ion the same path, as an early pioneer, explorer, trailblazer. |
Dewberry | n | Rubius caesus; "dead-men's fingers". |
Dewbit | n | A small meal, a little bit of food taken inthe morning, before regular breakfast. |
Dew-bow | n | An arch resembling a rainbow occurring on a dew-covered surface. |
Dew-bright | adj | Glistening dewy in the rays of the morning sun. |
Dewclaw | n | The hallux or great toe of man. |
Dew-cold | adj | Cold as he dew of morning. |
Dew-drenched | adj | Drenched or steeped with the morninng dew. |
Dew-drink | n | Beer, particularly the first allowance of beer to harvest laborers. |
Dewdrop | n | A drop of dew. 2. a glass bead resembling a drop of dew. |
Dew-dropped | adj | Covered or bespotted with dew drops. |
Dew-dropper | n | A young adult who sleeps all day |
Dew-dusters | n | The feet. |
Dewfall | n. | The formation or desposition of dew; the time when this begins in the evening; evening itself. |
Dew-gemmed | adj | Sparkling and dew-gemmed in the morning ray. |
Dewily | adv | After the manner and characteristic of dew. |
Dewiness | n | The quality of being dewy; fig., having fresh vigour. |
Dewing | n | The despostion of dew. 2. a wetting with dew; a gentle sprinkling; moistening, bedewing. |
Dewish | adj | Nature of or akin to dew, moist, damp. |
Dewlap | n | Found in OE but lap not OE. the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any animal. 2. the sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. |
Dewlapped | adj | Being dewlapped or having dewlaps. |
Dewless | adj | Without, or an absence of, dew. |
Dewlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of dew. |
Dew-pond | n | A shallow pond, esp. an artificial one, occurring on downs where the water supply, spring or surface drainage is inadequate. |
Dew-snail | n | A slug: a slow-moving, shell-less land snail. |
Dew water | n | Water originating in form of dew. |
Dewy | adj | Characterized by the presence of dew. 2. of the nature or quality of dew; likened in some qualities to dew, dewlike, moist. 3. pertaining to dew; rosal. 4. abounding in dew; covered or wet with dew. 5. consisting of dew affected by the presence of dew. 6. falling gently and vanishing like dew. 7. innocent and trusting; naive; dewy-eyed. |
Dewy-bright | adj | Bright rays of the sun on a dewy morning. |
Dewy-cold | adj | Extreme cold, as 'early morning sun's rays glistening on the dewy cold'. |
Dewy-dawn | n | 'The dewy-dawn of memory' - of earliest time; long ago, in a time far back. |
Dewy-eyed | adj | Innocent and trusting of countenance; naive. |
Dewy-swarded | adj | A sward covered in dew. |
Dewy-tongued | adj | 'Dewy-drops of his tongue' - melodious tone and sweet words. 2. fair speech. |
Dey | n | A woman having charge of a dairy; in more general use a female servant. 2. extended to a man having dairy duties. |
Dey-maid | n | A dairy maid. |
Dey-house | n | A dairy. |
Dey-wife | n | A dairy maid. |
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