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kes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.…

Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.…

absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.

of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.

distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

t depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.

ne that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

e thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by other remedies.

ep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. Macaulay.

on; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.

A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.