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Indeed; truly. See Ywis. [Written also iwys, iwisse, etc.] [Obs.] Ascham.

A deed; an action; a gest. [Obs.] The jests or actions of princes. Sir T. Elyot.

orfeited confidence. I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed. Chaucer.

states, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.

ot verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax.

a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity. The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light. Shak.

ich is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. Tennyson.

Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. [Obs.] 1 Chron. xxii. 5. "Thy magnific deeds." Milton. -- Mag*nif"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.

An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Obs.]

The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also malefeasance.]

Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Shak.

o bring together into masses; to assemble. But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. Coleridge.

ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies.

djectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. Hallam.

ted by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.

To expose to the rays of the moon. If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. Holland.