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To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. "Arms and the man I sing." Dryden.

To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

bs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." Feltham.

-- called also common bar. -- Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball. -- Blank deed. See Deed. -- Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it b…

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. "Bluff King Hal." Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

ion, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.