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<cs><col>Deaf and dumb</col>, <cd>without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See <er>Deaf-mute</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Deaf</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deafen.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Deafen</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Deafened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Deafening</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From <er>Deaf</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.</def>

<blockquote><b>Deafened</b> and stunned with their promiscuous cries. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.</def>

<h1>Deafening</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"en*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.</def>

<h1>Deafly</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Without sense of sounds; obscurely.</def>

<h1>Deafly</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Lonely; solitary.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Deaf-mute</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"-mute`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def> <mark>[See Illust. of <er>Dactylology</er>.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Deaf-mutes</b> are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

<h1>Deaf-mutism</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"-mut`ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The condition of being a deaf-mute.</def>

<h1>Deafness</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deaf"ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.</def>

<cs><col>Nervous deafness</col>, <cd>a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.</cd></cs>

<h1>Deal</h1> <Xpage=372>

<hw>Deal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>del</ets>, <ets>deel</ets>, part, AS. <ets>d<?/l</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>d<?/l</ets>, D. & Dan. <ets>deel</ets>, G. <ets>theil</ets>, <ets>teil</ets>, Icel. <ets>deild</ets>, Sw. <ets>del</ets>, Goth. <ets>dails</ets>. <?/<?/<?/. Cf. 3d <er>Dole</er>.]</ety>