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A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. Bryant.

h a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. Dryden. To force the tyrant from his seat by war. Sahk. Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. Fuller.

oss, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. Milton.

Without a ford. A deep and fordless river. Mallock.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

ic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.

Tender. [Obs.] Deep indignation and compassion. Spenser.

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen…

A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

oothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

rm. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley.

r to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

lower end of the scion cut slantwise. -- Saddle grafting, a mode of grafting in which a deep cleft is made in the end of the scion by two sloping cuts, and the end of the stock is made wedge-shaped to fit the cleft in the scion, which is placed upon it saddlewise. -- Side grafting, a mode of grafting in which the sc…

oöl.), the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth, above. -- In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. "Anguish in grain." Herbert.-- To dye in grain, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw…

To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. O! may they graven in thy heart remain. Prior.