deed 
executing what has been s:iicl or promised ; performance 
of what has hern undertaken. 
Ill the plainer and simpler kind of people, 
The dct'd <;/" xrKiiiKf is quite out of use. 
Sltalc., T. of A., v. 1. 
Deed of trust, a conveyance to one party of property, to 
be by him held ill trust for others. Specifically, a con- 
veyance by or on behalf of a debtor, to a third person, of 
real or personal property, or both, in trust to secure pay- 
ment of creditors or to indemnify sureties. Deed poll 
[< deed + poll for [Hilled, pp. of polll, shave, shear], a deed 
made by one party only: so called because the pa|wr or 
parchment is cut even and not indented. See *'w/>-/</ji/v. 
Estoppel by deed. See mti>j>/iri. Gratuitous deed. 
Sre iriitiiitxu* 'u/i'v/foi'V, under c.in fi'j/a nee. In deed, 
in fact; in reality: used chiefly in the phra.se-s in n-i-ii 
i/'-nf, In iti'i-il unit in truth. See indeed. 
One . . . wrote certaine prety verses of the Emperor 
Maximimis, to warne him that he should not glory too 
much in his owne strength, for so he did in very deed. 
I'littenham, Arte of F.ng. Poesie, p. 206. 
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, hut in deed 
and in truth. John iii. 18. 
Narrative of a deed. See narrative. To acknowledge 
a deed, to damn a deed, to extend a deed. See the 
verbs. = Syn. 1. Action, Act, Deed. (See action.) Exploit, 
etc. See/eo/1. 
deed (ded), i>. /. [< deed, .] To convey or 
transfer by deed : as, he deeded all his estate to 
his eldest son. 
deed-box (ded'boks), . A box for keeping 
deeds and other valuable papers, and often 
adapted to the common size of folded papers, 
usual iji lawyers' offices, etc. 
deed-doer (ded'do'er), . A doer; a perpe- 
trator. 
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2. To hold in belief or estimation ; adjudge as 
a conclusion; regard as being; account: as, 
Shakspere is deemed the greatest of poets. 
For never can I deem him less than god. 
Di-ytlea, tr. of Virgil's Eclogues, i. 
Vet he who saw this Geraldine 
Had deem'd her sure a thing divine. 
Coleridge, Christalwl, ii. 
That what was deemed wisdom in former times, is not 
necessarily folly in ours. Story, Cambridge, Aug. 31, 1820. 
The provincial writers of I.atin devoted themselves with 
a dreary assiduity to the imitation of models which they 
dei'ninl classical. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 239. 
3f. To judge; pass judgment on; sentence; 
doom. 
He hadde vs preche and here wittenesse 
That he schulde deme bothe quike and dede. 
York Playx, p. 466. 
The Sowdon doth vs wrong, as thinkith me, 
To make vs deme a man withoute lawe. 
Uenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1614. 
Sixe judges were dispos'd 
To view and deeme the deedes of armes that day. 
Spe.nser, F. Cj., IV. iii. 4. 
4f. To adjudge ; decree. 
If ye deeme me death for loving one 
That loves not me. Spenser. 
5f. To dispense (justice) ; administer (law). 
By leel men and lyf-holy my lawe shal be de.tnyd. 
Piers Plowman (C), v. 175. 
II. intrmts. To have an opinion ; judge ; think. 
I would not willingly be suspected of deem iny too lightly 
of this drama. Gi/onl, Int. to Ford's Plays, p. xl. 
The deed-doers Matrevers and Gourney . . . durst not deem't (dem), w. [< (teem*. J'.] Opinion; judg- 
ablde the triall. Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 185. 
deedful (ded'ful), . [< deed + -ful.} Char- 
acterized or marked by deeds or exploits ; full 
of deeds ; stirring. 
ment; surmise. 
How now? what wicked deem is this? 
You have made the wiser choice, 
A life that moves to gracious ends 
Thro' troops of unrecording friends, 
A deedful life. Tennyson, To 
deedily (de'di-li), adv. [< deedy + -lyV.] In a 
deedy manner; actively; busily. [Rare.] 
Frank Churchill at a table near her, most deedily occu- 
pied about her spectacles. Jane Austen, Emma, II. x. 
deedless (ded'les), a. [(= G. thatenlos = Icel. 
dddlilaitss = Dan. daadlon) < deed + -less.} In- 
active ; unmarked by deeds or exploits. 
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue. 
Shak., T. and C., iv. 5. 
deeds (dedz), n. pi. [E. dial, and So., = deads.} 
Earth, gravel, etc., thrown out in digging; 
specifically, in coal-mining, refuse rock; attle 
thrown upon the dump, burrow, or spoil-bank. 
Also deads. See dead, u., 2. [North. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
What is taken out of the ditch (vernacularly the deeds) 
thrown behind this facing to support it. 
Agric. Sure. Peeb.,p. 131. (Jamieam.) 
deedy 1 (de'di), o. [(= G. thatig, active) < deed 
+ -y 1 .} Industrious; active. [Rare.] 
Who praiseth a horse that feeds well but is not deedy 
for the race or travel, speed or length? 
S. Ward, Sermons, p. 165. 
In a messenger sent is required celerity, sincerity con- 
stancy ; that he he speedy, that he be heedy, and,' as we 
say, that he be deedy. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 111. 
There were grimsilentdepthsin Nic's character a small 
deedy spark in his eye, as it caught Christine's, was all that 
showed his consciousness of her. 
T. Hardy, The Waiting Supper, iii. 
deedy 2 (de'di), n. pi. deedies (-diz). A chicken 
or young fowl. [Southern U. S.] 
They disputed about the best methods of tending the 
newly hatched deedie*, that had chipped the shell so late 
in the fall as to be embarrassed by the frosts and the 
coming cold weather. 
C. E. Craddock, Harper's Hag., LXXVI. 67. 
deem 1 (dem), v. [< ME. demen, < AS. demon 
(= ONorth. doema = OS. d-domian = OFries. 
dema = D. doemen = MLG. domen = OHG. tuo- 
men, MHG. tttemen = Icel. da-ma = Sw. domma 
= Dan. domme = Goth, gadontjan), judge, deem, 
< dom, judgment, doom: see doom, n., and cf 
doom, v.} I. trans. I. To think, judge, or hold 
as an opinion; decide or believe on considera- 
tion ; suppose : as, he deemed it prudent to be 
silent. 
And in the feld he left hym liggeng 
Demyng noil other butt that he was dede. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3028. 
I deem I have half a guess of you; your name is Old 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 293. 
And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem 
Me bMn the rustling leaf and running stream 
Bryant, Evening Wind. 
And the men of Parxa deemed, though they were mis- 
taken , the thmiaht, that to the mission of Corinth and 
\ emee l-.nghind had succeeded. 
K. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 334. 
Shut., T. and C., iv. 4. 
deem 2 t, deemet, '. [Variants of dime, disme, 
q. v.] A tithe ; a tenth. 
There was graunted vnto him halfe a deem of the spirit- 
llalitie, and halfe a deeme of the temporalitie. 
tfrafton, Rich. II., an. 10. 
deemert, n. A judge ; an adjudicator. 
deemster, dempster (dem'-. demp'st6r), . 
[Formerly also demster; < ME. demester, demi- 
ster, demster, demjister, a judge, < demen, judge : 
see deeml and -uter. A parallel form is doom- 
ster.} A judge; one who pronounces sentence 
or doom ; specifically, the title of two judges in 
the Isle of Man who act as the chief justices of 
the island, the one presiding over the northern, 
the other over the southern, division. Compare 
doomster. 
deenet, See din. 
deep(dep), . andw. [Early mod. E. deepe; < ME. 
deep, depe, < AS. deop = OS. diop, diap = OFries. 
diap, diep = D. diep = MLG. diep = OHG. tiuf, 
MHG. G. tief = Icel. djupr = Sw. diup = Dan. 
dyb = Goth, diups, deep ; akin to dip, dop, and 
prob. to dire, dulP, q. v. Hence depth, etc.] I. 
a. 1. Having considerable or great extension 
downward, or in a direction viewed as analogous 
with downward. (,) Especially, as measured from the 
surface or top downward : extending far downward ; pro- 
found : opposed to shallow: as, deep water ; a deep mine 
a deep well ; a deep valley. 
This city [Jerusalem] stands at the south-end of a large 
I'lan and has vallies on the other three sides, which 
to the east and south are very deep. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 1. 7. 
You may think long over those few words without ex- 
hausting the deep wells of feeling and thought contained 
in them. Kmkin. 
(b) As measured from the point of view : extending far 
above ; lofty : as, a deep sky. (c) As measured from with- 
out inward : extending or entering far within ; situated 
far within or toward the center. 
F,ctor to the erth egurly light, 
The gay armnr to get of the gode hew, 
That he duly dessirit in Us depe hert. 
Destruction of T ran (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6415. 
Than he sir.ytethe himself, and makethe grete Woundes 
and depe here and there, tille he falle doun ded. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 177. 
I think she loves me, but I fear another 
Is deeper in her heart. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iv. 2. 
The Fangs of a Bear, and-the Tusks of a wild Boar, do 
not bite worse, and make deeper Gashes, then a Goose- 
qmll, sometimes. Homll, Letters, ii. 2. 
(<0 As measured from the front backward : long as a 
deep house ; a deep lot. 
Impaled 
On every side with shadowing squadrons ,lre,, 
To hide the fraud. Milton, P. L., vi. 554. 
2. Having (a certain) extension as measured 
from the surface downward or from the front 
backward: as, a mine 1,000 feet deep; a case 12 
inches long and 3 inches deep ; a house 40 feet 
deep ; a file of soldiers six deep. 3. Immersed ; 
absorbed; engrossed; wholly occupied: &a,deep 
in figures. 
deep 
Let him be judge how deep I am in love. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 
I was in the Coffee-House very deep in advertisements. 
Gray, Letters, I. 131. 
4. Closely involved or implicated. 
It appeared that the Ullke of Marlhorough was deep in 
the schemes of St. Germain's. Waljntle, Letters, II. 292. 
5. Hard to get to the bottom or foundation of; 
difficult to penetrate or understand ; not easily 
fathomed; profound; abstruse. 
Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. Vs. xcii. 5. 
A people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive. 
Isa. xxxiii. 19. 
The blindness of Cupid contains a deep allegory. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, viii., Expl. 
Deep as are the truths that matter is indestructible and 
motion continuous, there is a yet deeper truth implied by 
these two. ./. Piste, Cosmic Philos., I. 281. 
The deep mind of dauntless infancy. 
T.-innix'iii, Ode to Memory. 
6. Sagacious; penetrating; profound: as, a 
mail of de.ep insight. 
The worthy, to that wegh, that was of wit noble, 
Depe of discrecioun, in dole thof sho were, 
Mho herknet hym full hyndly, & with hert gode. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9237. 
Deep clerks she dumbs. Shak., Pericles, v. (Gower). 
Rules | Roscominon's] whose deep sense and heavenly num- 
bers show 
The best of critics, and of poets too. 
Addition, The Greatest English Poets. 
7. Artful; contriving; plotting; insidious; de- 
signing: as, he is a deep schemer. 
Keep the Irish fellow 
Safe, as you love your life, for he, 1 fear, 
Has a deep hand in this. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, iii. 1. 
In the way of Trade, we still suspect the smoothest 
Dealers of the deepest Designs. 
Conyreve, Old IJatchelor, Iv. 3. 
8. Grave in sound; low in pitch: as, the 
tones of an organ. 
The flue and deep tones of Pasta's voice had not yet 
lost their brilliancy, and her acting was as unrivalled as 
ever. First Year of a Silken lleiijn, p. 180. 
9. Great in degree; intense; extreme; pro- 
found: as, deep silence; deep darkness; tln-/> 
grief ; a deep black. 
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam. 
Gen. ii. 21. 
1 understand with a deep Sense of Sorrow of the Indis- 
position of your Son. Hott'ell, Letters, ii. 51. 
On the day I quitted Sarasiah, my guide killed one [a 
tarantula] of a beautifully silvery white, with deep orange 
longitudinal stripes. O'Doiinrini. Merv, xii. 
10. Muddy; boggy; having much loose sand 
or soil : applied to roads. 
The ways in that vale were very deep. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and had 
weather, we came, with no small difficulty, to our jour- 
ney's end. H'liately, Rhetoric, III. ii. 12. 
11. Heartfelt; earnest; affecting. 
O God ! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, . . . 
Yet execute thy wrath on me alone. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. 
Whilst I was speaking, the glorious power of the Lord 
wonderfully rose, yea, after an awful manner, and had a 
deep entrance upon their spirits. 
Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 
12. Profound; thorough. 
Will anyone disgrace himself by doubting the necessity 
of deep and continued studies, and various and thorough 
attainments to the bench? It. Choate, Addresses, p. .sou. 
13f. Late; advanced in time. 
I marie how forward the day is. ... 'Slight, 'tis deeper 
than I took it, past five ! B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. I . 
14. In logic, signifying much; having many 
predicates. See depth, 9. =Syn. 5. Difficult, knotty, 
mysterious. 7. Shrewd, crafty, cunning. 
II. n. [< ME. deepe, depe, < AS. dype, f. (= 
MLG. diupi, diopi, dftpi = OHG. liiiji, lief!, 
MHG. Huff, tiefe, G. tiefe, dial, teufe, f., '= 
Icel. dypt, neut.), also deop, neut. (= D. diep 
= G. tief = Icel. diup = Sw. djup = Dan. ili/h). 
the deep (sea) ; from the adj.: nn-<lrep,a. Cf. 
depth.} 1. That which is of great depth, spe.-iii- 
cally (o)The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean: an.\ 
great body of water. 
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. .lob xli. 31. 
(b) pi. A deep channel near a town: as. Menu] l>,-,-ps. 
Prussia ; Boston Deeps, near lioston. England, (c) A name 
given by geographers to well-marked depressions in the 
<ii'. -an-tied greater than two thousand fathoms. (</) The 
sky ; the unclouded heavens. 
The blue deep, 
Where stars their perfect emirses keep. 
EHH-I-X.HI, Monadnoc. 
(e) III rial. minimi, the lowest part of the mine, especial!) 
the portion lower than the bottom of the shaft, or the lev- 
els extending therefrom. (/) Any abyss. 
