Part 2843

<blockquote>Drink <b>deep</b>, or taste not the Pierian spring. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Deep</i>, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, <ex>deep</ex>-chested, <ex>deep</ex>-cut, <ex>deep</ex>-seated, <ex>deep</ex>-toned, <ex>deep</ex>-voiced, "<ex>deep</ex>-uddered kine."</note>

<h1>Deep</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Deep</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.</def>

<blockquote>Courage from the <b>deeps</b> of knowledge springs. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The hollow <b>deep</b> of hell resounded. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing <b>deeps</b> resound. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.</def>

<blockquote>Thy judgments are a great. <i>Ps. xxxvi. 6.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Deep of night</col>, <cd>the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>The <b>deep of night</b> is crept upon our talk. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deepen</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Deep"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Deepened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Deepening</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; <as>as, to <ex>deepen</ex> a well or a channel</as>.</def>

<blockquote>It would . . . <b>deepen</b> the bed of the Tiber. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make darker or more intense; to darken; <as>as, the event <ex>deepened</ex> the prevailing gloom</as>.</def>

<blockquote>You must <b>deepen</b> your colors. <i>Peacham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; <as>as, to <ex>deepen</ex> grief or sorrow</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make more grave or low in tone; <as>as, to <ex>deepen</ex> the tones of an organ</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Deepens</b> the murmur of the falling floods. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deepen</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Deep"en</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become deeper; <as>as, the water <ex>deepens</ex> at every cast of the lead; the plot <ex>deepens</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>His blood-red tresses <b>deepening</b> in the sun. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deep-fet</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Deep"-fet`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Deeply fetched or drawn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Deep-fet</i> groans."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Deep-laid</h1> <Xpage=380>