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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.

The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

Dead trees or branches; useless material.

The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

As dead as a stone.

Not subject to death; immortal. [Obs.] -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. [Obs.] Wyclif.

tuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

ticular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak.

alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To make as if dead; to destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ler. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13.

lts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.

idence. Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.