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ed from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

Deeply fetched or drawn. [Obs.] "Deep-fet groans." Shak.

Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.

Rooted in the heart. Herbert.

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. Lowell.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

als, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

cts so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

id state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.