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<hw>Dead</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>I was tired of reading, and <b>dead</b> sleepy. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Dead drunk</col>, <cd>so drunk as to be unconscious.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Dead</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; <as>as, the <ex>dead</ex> of winter</as>.</def>

<blockquote>When the drum beat at <b>dead</b> of night. <i>Campbell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.</def>

<blockquote>And Abraham stood up from before his <b>dead</b>. <i>Gen. xxiii. 3.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dead</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and <b>deaded</b> me. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dead</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To die; to lose life or force.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, <b>deadeth</b> straightway. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dead beat</h1> <Xpage=371>

<hw>Dead` beat"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See <er>Beat</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 7.</def> <mark>[Low, U.S.]</mark>

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<hw>Dead"beat`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Deadbeat escapement</col>. <cd>See under <er>Escapement</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Deadborn</h1> <Xpage=371>

<hw>Dead"born`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Stillborn.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Deaden</h1> <Xpage=371>

<hw>Dead"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Deadened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Deadening</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From <er>Dead</er>; cf. AS. <ets>d<?/dan</ets> to kill, put to death. See <er>Dead</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; <as>as, to <ex>deaden</ex> the natural powers or feelings; to <ex>deaden</ex> a sound.</as></def>

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