deadhead 
entertainment, or to obtain any privilege hav- 
ing its public price, without payment. [U. S.] 
deadhead (ded'hed), v. I. trans. To provide 
free passage, admission, etc., for; pass or admit 
without payment, as on a railroad or into a thea- 
ter: as, to deadhead a passenger, or a guest at 
a hotel. 
II. in trans. To travel on a train, steamboat, 
etc., or gain admission to a theater or similar 
place, without payment. 
deadheadism (ded'hed"izm), n. [< deadhead 
+ -isv.] The practice of traveling, etc., as a 
deadhead. 
dead-house ^ded'hous), n. An apartment in a 
hospital or other institution, or a separate build- 
ing, where dead bodies are kept for a time ; a 
morgue. 
deading (ded'ing), . [< dead + -ing.'] In a 
steam-engine, a jacket inclosing the pipes or 
cylinder of a steam-boiler, to prevent radiation 
of the heat. Also called deading and lagging. 
dead-latch (ded'lach), . A latch which is 
held in its place by a catch, or of which the bolt 
may be so locked by a detent that it cannot be 
raised by the latch-key from the outside, nor by 
the handle from within. E. H. Knight. 
dead-light (ded'lit), . 1. Nawt., a strong 
wooden or iron shutter fastened over a cabin- 
window or port-hole in rough weather to pre- 
vent water from entering. 2. A luminous 
appearance sometimes observed over putres- 
cent animal bodies. [Scotch.] 
At length it was suggested to the old man that there 
were always dead lights hovering over a corpse by night, 
if the body was left exposed to the air. 
Blackwood's Mag., March, 1823, p. 318. 
deadlihoodt (ded'li-hud), n. [< deadly + 
-hood.] The state of the dead. 
Christ, after expiration, was in the state or condition of 
the dead, in deadlyhood. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, v. 
dead-line (ded'Hn), n. A lino drawn around 
the inside or outside of a military prison, which 
no prisoner can cross without incurring the 
penalty of being immediately shot down : used 
during the American civil war especially with 
reference to open-air inclosures or stockades for 
prisoners. 
Should he some day escape alive across the dead-line of 
Winchesters, he will be hunted witli bloodhounds. 
Contein}>orary lies., LIII. 449. 
deadliness (ded'li-nes), n. [< ME. dedlincsse, 
dedelynesse, < AS. deadKcm/s, mortality, < dedd- 
Uc, mortal, deadly : see deadly, a.] The quali- 
ty of being deadly ; the character of being ex- 
tremely destructive of life. 
As for my relapses, I ... know their danger and . . . 
their deadlinewe. 
Bp. Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched, ii. 
dead-lock (ded'lok), n. 1. A lock worked on 
one side by a handle and on the other side by 
a key. E. H. Knight. 2. A complete stop- 
page, stand-still, or entanglement ; a state of 
affairs in which further progress or a decision 
is for the time impossible, as if from an inex- 
tricable locking up : as, a dead-lock in a legis- 
lature where parties are evenly balanced. 
[Often written deadlock.] 
There's situation for you! there's an heroic group! 
You see the ladies can't stab Whiskerandos he durst not 
strike them, for fear of their uncles the uncles durst 
not kill him, because of their nieces I have them all at 
a dead lock .' for every one of them is afraid to let go 
first. Sheridan, The Critic, iii. 1. 
The opposition were not convinced, and the parties 
came to a deatl-lnck. N. A. Ken., CXXIII. 127. 
deadly (ded'li), a. [Early mod. E. also dedly, 
< ME. dedly, dedli, dedely, -lich, fatal, dead, mor- 
tal, < AS. deddKc (= OFries. dddlik, dadelik = 
T>. doodelijk = MHG. totlich, G. todtlich = loel. 
daudlMgr = Dan. dodelig = Sw. diidlig), fatal, 
mortal, < dead., dead, + -lie, E. -lyi. Of. deathly.] 
If. Mortal ; liable to death ; being in danger of 
death. 
The image of a deadly man. Wydif, Rom. i. 23. 
Hip. How does the patient? 
Clod. You may inquire 
Of more than one ; for two are sick and deadly. 
Beau, and Fl., Custom of the Country, v. 4. 
2. Occasioning or capable of causing death, 
physical or spiritual ; mortal ; fatal ; destruc- 
tive : as, a deadly blow or wound. 
The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, 
It was sic a deadly storm. 
Sir Patrick Spew (Child's Ballads, III. 154). 
He mounted . . . and set out ... on the errand which, 
neither to him nor to Perdita, seemed to involve any dead- 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 195. 
3. Mortal; implacable; aiming or tending to 
11 or destroy: as, a deadly enemy; deadly 
malice ; a deadly feud. 
1470 
Thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. 
Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 
Deadlier emphasis of curse. Scott, L. of the L., iii. 4. 
In England every preparation was made for a deadly 
struggle. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iii. 
4. Adapted for producing death or great bodi- 
ly injury: as, a deadly weapon; a deadly drug. 
He drew his deadly sword. 
Duel of Wharton and Stuart (Child's Ballads, VIII. 263). 
Shot from the deadly level of a gun. 
Shak., K. and J., iii. 3. 
5. Dead. [Bare.] 
And great lords bear you clothed with funeral things, 
And your crown girded over deadly brows. 
Swinburne, Chastelard, iii. 1. 
6. Very great; excessive. [Colloq.] 
To the privy seale, where I signed a deadly number of 
pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by. 
Pepys, Diary, I. 129. 
Deadly carrot. See carrot. Deadly nightshade. See 
nightshade. Deadly sins. See sin. =Syn. 2. Deaillii, 
Deathly. Deadly is applied to that which inflicts death ; 
deathly, to that which resembles death. We properly speak 
of a deadly poison, and of deathly paleness. A. S. Hill, 
Rhetoric, p. 50. 
Anointed let me be with deadly venom ; 
And die, ere men can say God save the queen ! 
Shak., Eich. III., iv. 1. 
Her hands had turned to a deathly coldness. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, xlv. 
deadly (ded'li), adv. [Early mod. E. also dedly, 
< ME. dedly, dedely, -liche, < AS. deddlice, adv., 
< deddllc, deadly : see deadly, a.~\ If. Mortally. 
He shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly 
wounded man. Ezek. xxx. 24. 
2. Implacably; destructively. 
Ffor thowgh that I haue hated yow neuer so dedly, ye 
haue here soche children that haue do me soche servise 
that I may haue no will to do yow noon euell. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 478. 
3. In a manner resembling death ; deathly: as, 
deadly pale or wan. 
Such is the aspect of this shore ; 
'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! 
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 
We start, for~soul is wanting there. 
Byrun, The Giaour, 1. 92. 
4. Extremely; excessively. [Colloq.] 
deadly-handed (ded'li-han / 'ded), . Sangui- 
nary ; disposed to kill. [Bare.] 
The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 2. 
deadly-lively (ded'li-liv"li), a. Blending the 
aspect or effect of gloom and liveliness : as, a 
deadly-lively party. [Eng.] 
Even her black dress assumed something of a deadly- 
lively air from the jaunty style in which it was worn. 
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xli. 
dead-man's-hand (ded'manz-hand'), n. 1. A 
name of the male fern, Nephrodium Filix-mas, 
and of some other ferns, from the fact that the 
young fronds before they begin to unroll re- 
semble a closed fist. 2. The devil's-apron, 
Laminaria digitata. Also called dead-wian's- 
toe. 
dead-march (ded'march), n. A piece of solemn 
music played in funeral processions, especially 
at military funerals : as, the dead-march in Han- 
del's oratorio of Saul. 
Hush, the Dead-March wails in a people's ears : 
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears : 
The black earth yawns : the mortal disappears. 
Tennyson, Death of Wellington. 
dead-men' s-bells (ded'menz-belz'), . The 
foxglove, Digitalis 
purpurea. 
dead-men's-fingers 
(ded ' menz - fing ' - 
gerz), n. 1. The 
hand-orchis, Orchis 
maculata : so called 
from its pale hand- 
like tubers. The 
name is also given 
to other species of 
Orchis and to some 
other plants. 
Our cold maids do dead 
men's fingers call 
them. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 
2. An alcyonarian 
or halcyonoid polyp 
of the order Alcyo- 
nacece, family Alcyo- 
niidce, and genus Al- 
cyomum, as A. digi- 
ttitiim. Also called 
coic-paps and mermaid* s-glme. See Alcyonium. 
dead's-part 
dead-men's-lines (dod'menz-linz'), n. An alga, 
('hm-da Jilttm, having cord-like fronds about one 
fourth of an inch in diameter and sometimes 
12 feet long. 
dead-neap (ded'nep), n. The lowest stage of 
the tide. 
deadness (ded'nes), n. The state of being 
dead, (a) Want of life or vital power in a once animat- 
ed body, as an animal or a plant, or in a part of it. 
When he seemed to show his weakness in seeking fruit 
upon that fig-tree that had mine, he manifested his |>WIT 
by cursing it to deadnesx with a word. 
South, Works, VII. i. 
(6) The state of being by nature without life ; inanimate- 
ness, (c) A state resembling that of death : as, tile dead- 
netts of a fainting-fit, (rf) Want of activity or sensitiveness ; 
lack of force or susceptibility ; dullness ; coldness ; frigidi- 
ty ; indifference : as, deadncxx of the affections. 
The most curious phenomenon in all Venetian history 
is the vitality of religion in private life, and its dea/lnets 
in public policy. Httttkin. 
This appeared to be no news to Sylvia, and yet the words 
came on her with a great shock ; but for all that she could 
not cry ; she was surprised herself at her own deadtiegs of 
feeling. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxv. 
(<0 Flatness ; want of spirit : as, the deadness of liquors. 
Deadne$g or flatness in cyder is often occasioned by the 
too free admission of air into the vessels. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
dead-nettle (ded'nef'l), . The common name 
of labiate plants of the genus Lamium, the 
leaves of which resemble those of the net- 
tle, though they do not sting. There are several 
species found in Great Britain, as the white dead-nettle 
(L. album), the red (L. purpureum), and the yellow (L. 
Galeobdolon). 
dead-oil (ded'oil), n. A name given in the arts 
to those products, consisting of carbolic acid, 
naphthalin, etc., obtained in the distillation of 
coal-tar, which are heavier than water and 
which come off at a temperature of about 340 
F. or over. Also called heavy oil. 
dead-payt (ded'pa), n. Continued pay dishon- 
estly drawn for soldiers and sailors actually 
dead ; a person in whose name pay is so drawn. 
[Eng.] 
O you commanders 
That, like me, have no dead-pays. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, iv. 2. 
dead-plate (ded'plat), n. A flat iron plate 
sometimes fitted before the bars of a f uniace, 
for the purpose of causing bituminous coal to 
assume the character of coke before it is thrust 
back into the fire. 
dead-pledge (ded'plej), . A mortgage or 
pawning of lands or goods, or the thing pawned. 
dead-point (ded'point), n. See dead-center. 
dead-reckoning (ded'rek"u-ing), . Naut., the 
calculation of a ship's place at sea, indepen- 
dently of observations of the heavenly bodies, 
and simply from the distance she has run by 
the log and the courses steered by the com- 
pass, this being rectified by due allowances for 
drift, leeway, etc. 
dead-rise (ded'iiz), . In ship-building, the dis- 
tance between a horizontal line joining the top 
of the floor-timbers amidships and the top of 
the keel. 
dead-rising (ded 'ri" zing), . Same as dead- 
rise. 
dead-rope (ded'rop), n. Naut., a rope which 
does not run in any block. [Rare.] 
Dead Sea apple. See apple. 
dead-set (detr set'), n. and a. I. n. 1. The fixed 
position of a dog in pointing game. 2. A de- 
termined effort or attempt ; a pointed attack : 
as, to make a dead-set in a game. 3. Opposi- 
tion ; resolute antagonism ; hostility : as, it was 
a dead-set between them. Bartlett. 4. A con- 
cocted scheme to defraud a person in gaming. 
Grose, Slang Diet. [Slang.] 
II. a. Extremely desirous of, or determined 
to get or to do, something : generally with on or 
upon. 
dead-sheave (ded'shev), n. Naut., a score in 
the heel of a topmast to receive an additional 
mast-rope as a preventer. 
dead-shore (ded'shor), . t A piece of wood 
built up vertically in a wall which has been 
broken through for the purpose of making al- 
terations in a building. 
dead-small (ded'smal), n. In eoal-ntiniiifi, the 
smallest coal which passes through the screens. 
[North. Eng.] 
dead's-part (drdn'part), . In Scots law, that 
part of a man's movable succession which he 
is entitled to dispose of by testament, or that 
which remains of the movables over and above 
what is due to the wife and children. Some- 
times dead i/itix',* part. 
