Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 8
Day lily (n.) 萱草 A genus of plants ({Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.
Day lily (n.) Any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover [syn: plantain lily, day lily].
Day lily (n.) Any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day [syn: day lily, daylily].
Daymaid (n.) A dairymaid.
Daymare (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Day-net (n.) A net for catching small birds.
Day-peep (n.) The dawn.
Daysman (n.) 【罕】調解人 An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. -- Job ix. 33.
Daysman (n.) An umpire or arbiter or judge (Job 9:33). This word is formed from the Latin diem dicere, i.e., to fix a day for hearing a cause. Such an one is empowered by mutual consent to decide the cause, and to "lay his hand", i.e., to impose his authority, on both, and enforce his sentence.
Dayspring (n.) The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
Day-star (n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
Day-star (n.) The sun, as the orb of day.
Daytime (n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Daywoman (n.) A dairymaid.
Dazed (imp. & p. p.) of Daze
Dazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daze
Daze (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
Daze (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
Daze (n.) A glittering stone.
Dazzled (imp. & p. p.) of Dazzle
Dazzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dazzle
Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.
Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. -- Pope.
Dazzle (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle. -- Bacon.
I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise. -- Dryden.
Dazzle (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Dazzle (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright. -- Milton.
An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. -- Sir H. Taylor.
Dazzle (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." -- Shak.
Dazzle (n.) Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily.
Dazzle (v.) To cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights" [syn: dazzle, bedazzle, daze].
Dazzle (v.) Amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps".
Dazzlement (n.) Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. -- Donne.
Dazzlingly (adv.) In a dazzling manner.
De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
Deacon (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. [Colloq. New. Eng.] See Line, v. t.
Note: The expression is derived from a former custom in the Congregational churches of New England. It was part of the office of a deacon to read aloud the psalm given out, one line at a time, the congregation singing each line as soon as read; -- called, also, lining out the psalm.
Deacon (v. t.) With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc. [Colloq., U. S.]
Deacon (n.) (Eccl.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
Deacon (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company. [Scot.]
Deacon (n.) A Protestant layman who assists the minister [syn: deacon, Protestant deacon].
Deacon (n.) A cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders.
Deaconess (n.) A female deacon; as:
Deaconess (n.) (Primitive Ch.) (One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.
Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
Deaconess (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.
Deaconess (n.) A woman deacon.
Deaconess (n.) Rom. 16:1, 3, 12; Phil. 4:2, 3; 1 Tim. 3:11; 5:9, 10; Titus 2:3, 4). In these passages it is evident that females were then engaged in various Christian ministrations. Pliny makes mention of them also in his letter to Trajan (A.D. 110).
Deaconhood (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
Deaconry (n.) See Deaconship.
Deaconship (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.
Deactivate (v. t.) 撤銷，遣散（軍事單位） To make inactive; to render ineffective; as, to deactivate a bomb; to deactivate a machine; to deactivate the alarm.
Note: The deactivation of a machine or device is usually a reversible process; switching off an electrical device may be referred to as deactivation. To render an enzyme or catalyst ineffective is more commonly referred to as to {inactivate}.
Deactivate (v. t.) To disband (a military unit, or other group); to discontinue (a group activity); as, to deactivate the regiment; to deactivate the investigation.
Deactivate (v.) Remove from active military status or reassign; "The men deactivated after five years of service".
Deactivate (v.) Make inactive; "they deactivated the file" [syn: {inactivate}, {deactivate}] [ant: {activate}].
Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." -- Shak.
The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. -- Arbuthnot.
Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. -- Shak.
Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
Dead (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." -- C. Reade.
Dead (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
I had them a dead bargain. -- Goldsmith.
Dead (a.) Bringing death; deadly. -- Shak.
Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. "Dead in trespasses." -- Eph. ii. 1.
Dead (a.) (Paint.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
Dead (a.) (Paint.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
Dead (a.) (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
Dead (a.) (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
Dead (a.) (Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.
Dead (a.) Out of play; regarded
as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain
conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
[In golf], A ball is said to lie dead when it lies so
near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. --
Encyc. of Sport.
Dead ahead (Naut.), Directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go.
Dead angle (Mil.), An angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet.
Dead block, Either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.
Dead calm (Naut.), No wind at all.
Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), Either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by, the lever L.
Dead color (Paint.), A color which has no gloss upon it.
Dead coloring (Oil paint.), The layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome.
Dead door (Shipbuilding), A storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door.
Dead flat (Naut.), The widest or midship frame.
Dead freight (Mar. Law), A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. -- Abbott.
Dead ground (Mining), The portion of a vein in which there is no ore.
Dead hand, A hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." -- Morley. See Mortmain.
Dead head (Naut.), A rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy.
Dead heat, A heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins.
Dead horse, An expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law]
Dead language, A language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
Dead plate (Mach.), A solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part.
Dead pledge, A mortgage. See Mortgage.
Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center.
Dead reckoning (Naut.), The method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations.
Dead rise, The transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor.
Dead rising, An elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length.
Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple.
Dead set. See under Set.
Dead shot. (a) An unerring marksman.
Dead shot. (b) A shot certain to be made.
Dead smooth, The finest cut made; -- said of files.
Dead wall (Arch.), A blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.
Dead water (Naut.), The eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing.
Dead weight. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. -- Dryden.
Dead weight. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.
Dead weight. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. -- Knight.
Dead wind (Naut.), A wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.
To be dead, To die. [Obs.]
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. -- Chaucer.
Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See Lifeless.
Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.]
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. -- Dickens.
Dead drunk, So drunk as to be unconscious.
Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
When the drum beat at dead of night. -- Campbell.
Dead (n.) One who is dead; --
commonly used collectively.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead. -- Gen.
xxiii. 3.
Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. [Obs.]
Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me. -- Chapman.
Dead (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.]
So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. -- Bacon. dead beat
Dead (adv.) Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead].
Dead (adv.) Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead].
Dead (a.) No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p), live].
Dead (a.) Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: live].
Dead (a.) Very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)].
Dead (a.) Unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim".
Dead (a.) Physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range".
Dead (a.) (Followed by `to') Not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)].
Dead (a.) Devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened].
Dead (a.) Lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio".
Dead (a.) Not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: dead, idle].
Dead (a.) Not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant].
Dead (a.) Not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language".
Dead (a.) Lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball".
Dead (a.) Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead".
Dead (a.) No longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue".
Dead (a.) Complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn: dead(a), utter].
Dead (a.) Drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: dead, drained].
Dead (a.) Devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here".
Dead (n.) People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" [ant: living].
Dead (n.) A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter".
Dead (a.) Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of hardware.
Dead (a.) At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support.
Dead (a.) Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: live. Compare dead code.
Dead, () Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of hardware.
Dead, () At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support. [{Jargon File]
Dead (a.) Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! Squatol Johnes
Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7.
Deadbeat (a.) 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.
Deadborn (a.) Stillborn.
Deadened (imp. & p. p.) of Deaden
Deadening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deaden
Deaden (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
Deaden (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Deadhead (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
Deadhead (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.
Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Deadish (a.) Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
Deadliest (a.) 最致命的 Superlative form of deadly: most deadly.
// The black mamba is among the deadliest snakes.
// The deadliest person is the sleepy driver.
Compare: Mamba
Mamba (n.) 【動】樹眼鏡蛇 A large, agile, highly venomous African snake.
Genus Dendroaspis, family Elapidae: three species. See also and black mamba.
Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
Deadlihood (n.) State of the dead.
Deadline (n.) [C] 截止期限，最後限期；（報紙等的）截稿時間；（監獄周圍的）死線 The point in time at which something must be completed.
Deadliness (n.) [U] 致命；不共戴天，深仇大恨 The quality of being deadly.
Deadliness (n.) The quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness, lethality].
Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
Deadlock (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.
Deadly (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
Deadly (a.) Subject to death; mortal.
Deadly (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
Deadly (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
Deadly (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.
Deadly (adv.) Extremely.
Deadly (a.) (Very dangerous) 致命的，致死的 (B2) Likely to cause death.
// A deadly virus.
// A deadly weapon.
Deadly (a.) (Complete) 完全的；極端的 Complete or extreme.
// They have been deadly enemies ever since Mark stole Greg's girlfriend.
Deadly (a.) (Boring) 極其乏味的，非常無聊的 Informal extremely boring.
// The party was deadly.
Deadly(adv.) (C1) 完全地；極其 Completely or extremely.
// I thought she was joking but she was deadly serious.
Deadness (n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a.
Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Deadwood (n.) 枯枝；無用的人或物 A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Deadwood (n.) [fig.] People who are unproductive; -- used especially in reference to employees.
Deadwood (n.) A branch or a part of a tree that is dead.
Deadwood (n.) Someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded [syn: {fifth wheel}, {deadwood}].
Deadwood (n.) (In writing) Unnecessary words, phrases, or exposition; expendable verbiage.
Deadwood (n.) The dead branches on a tree; dead branches or trees.
Deadwood (n.) Useless or burdensome persons or things.
// He cut the deadwood from his staff.
Deadworks (n. pl.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
Deaf (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. -- Shak.
Deaf (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! -- Shak.
Deaf (a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. -- Dryden.
Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]
A deaf murmur through the squadron went. -- Dryden.
Deaf (a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. -- Holland.
Deaf (v. t.) To deafen. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Deaf (a.) Lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part [ant: hearing(a)].
Deaf (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings" [syn: deaf(p), indifferent(p)].
Deaf (n.) People who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language".
Deaf (v.) Make or render deaf; "a deafening noise" [syn: deafen, deaf].
Deafened (imp. & p. p.) of Deafen