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Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak.

Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. Byron.

A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.

oon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. High time it is this war now ended were. Spenser. High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. Baker.

Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak.

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. Dryden.

A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

ar as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire; deeply involved. [Colloq.]

The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

Moist; humid; watery. [Obs.] All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman.

ppease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.

that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.

Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. Atterbury.

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

mpose, that men must needs abide. Shak. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. Waller.