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y. Twelve days the gods their solemn revels keep, And quaff with blameless Ethiops in the deep. Dryden.

Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfe…

Shak. Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

id God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. Milton.

A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. Quirk molding, a bead between two quirks.

rment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair. Milton.

To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. Time should . . . rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness. Barrow.

The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke.

Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.

A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. Hayward. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. Pope.

The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action if acid. Fairholt.

room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. A bed which stood in a deep recess. W. Irving.

otice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

dles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.

Consideration; thought; reflection; heed. Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. Shak.

, neck, and large patches on the wings, bright golden yellow, and the rest of the plumage deep velvety black; -- so called in honor of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.), who was Prince Regent in the reign of George III. -- The Regents of the University of the State of New York, the members of a corporate body…

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

eld his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and deep hell beneath. Prior.