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See Epi-.

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.

Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.

A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.

A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.

Heavy with sleep.

Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. [R.] Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.

Lofty and precipitous. [R.] Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Ste…

g or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.

Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-up transformer.

A bow-saw.