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be (lamped with more than one fuch (lamp. Nor (liall 
the duty by this aft impofed be liable to the regulations 
refpefting the (lamping of parchment and paper, accord¬ 
ing to the number of common law fheets engroffed there¬ 
on. Upon payment, within fixty days after the date of 
the deed, of the duty hereby impofed, the (lamp-officers 
may (lamp any vellum, parchment, or paper, on which 
any deed (hall have been engroffed, or on which any deed 
fhall be intended to be engroffed, with the additional 
(lamp. And if the duty (hall not be paid within fixty 
days, then it (hall be lawful to fend the deed to the head 
office, and on payment of fhe duty, and the farther fum 
of ten pounds by way of penalty, the fame may be (lamped. 
But grants, conveyances, and aff'urances under the feal of 
the duchy of Lancaster, ad "ding to 19 Geo. III. c. 45, 
where the confideration does not exceed ten pounds, are 
exempted by that aft, and 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 72, 
from all duty. The number of (lamps required to be 
ufed on deeds are one for every fifteen common law flieets 
(of feventv-two words each) contained in the deed, or in 
any fchedule or inftrument annexed thereto, or any in- 
dorfement thereon. 
■ DEED-ATCHIE'VING, adj. That acccmplifhes great 
deeds.—By deed-atchievivg honour newly nam’d. Shakejp. 
DEED'LESS, adj. Unaftive; without aftion; with¬ 
out exploits.—Speaking in deeds, and deedlejs in his 
tongue. Shakejpcare. 
Inftant, he cried, your female difeord end. 
Ye deedlefs boaffers ! and the long attend. Pope. 
DEEL, a river of Ireland, in the county of Mayo, 
which runs info Lough Conn. 
To DEEM, v.n. part, dempt, or deemed-, [domgan,G oth. 
doeman, Dut. beman, Sax.] To judge; to Conclude up¬ 
on conlideration ; to think ; to opine ; to determine.—So 
natural is the union of religion with juffice, that we may 
boldly deem there is neither, where both are not. Hooker. 
Here eke that famous golden apple grew, 
For which th’ Idean ladies difagreed, 
Till partial Paris dempt it Venus’ due. Spenfer. 
To eftimate ; to make eftimate of; this fenfe is nozo difu/ed: 
But they that (kill not of fo heavenly matter, 
All that they know not, envy, or admire, 
Rather than envy, let them wonder at her, 
But not to deem of her defert afpire. Spenfcr. 
DEEM, f Judgment; furmife ; opinion; not in life: 
Here me, my love, be thou but true of heart, 
.—I true ! how now ? what wicked deem is this ? Shake/p. 
DEEM'STERS,yi [from bema. Sax. a judge or um- 
dre.] A. kind of judges in Jerfey, Guernfey, and the 
fie of Man, who, without procefs, or any charge to the 
parties, decide all controverfies in thofe iflands ; and they 
are chofen from among themfelves. 
DEEN'KOTE, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
®f Lahore, on the ea(t fide of the Sinde, where there is a 
pafs acrofs that river : thirty-two miles fouth of Attock. 
DEEP, adj. [beep, Sax.] Having length downwards; 
defeending far; profound : oppofed to fallow. —All trees 
in high and fandy grounds are to be fet deep , and in watry 
grounds more (hallow. Bacon. 
The gaping gulph low to the centre lies, 
And twice as deep as earth is diftant from the (kies. Dryd. 
Low in fituation; not high. Meafured from the furface 
downward.'—Mr. Halley, in diving deep into the fea in 
a diving veflel, found, in a clear fun-ffiine day, that when 
he was funk many fathoms deep into the water, the upper 
part of his hand, on which the fun (ltone diredtly, ap¬ 
peared of a red colour. Nezvton. —-Entering far ; piercing 
a great way.—For, even in that feafon of the year, the 
ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. 
Thou hall not (Irength fuch labours to fudain : 
Drink hellebore, pay boy! drink deep, and fcour thy 
brain. Dryden. ■ 
DEE 
Far from the outer part: 
So the falfe fpider, when her nets are fpread, 
Deep ambufh’d in her lilent den does lie. Dryden. 
Not fuperficial; not obvious.—If the matter be knotty, 
and the fenfe lies deep, the mind mud (lop and buckle to 
it, and (lick upon it with labour and thought, and c’.ofc 
contemplation. Locke. —Sagacious ; penetrating ; having 
the power to enter far into a fubjeft. — I do not dif- 
cover the helps which this great man of deep thought 
mentions. Locke. 
He in my ear 
Vented much policy and projefts deep 
Of enemies, of aids, battles, and leagues. Milton. 
Full of contrivance ; politic; infidious: 
When I have mod need to employ a friend, 
Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile, 
Be he to me. Shakcfpeare. 
Grave; folemn : 
O God ! if my deep pray’rs cannot appeafe thee, 
But thou wilt be aveng’d on my mifdeeds, 
Yet execute thy wrath on me alone. Shakefpeare. 
Dark-coloured.—With deeper brown the grove was over- 
fpread. Dryden. —Having a great degree of ftilnefs, or 
gloom, or fadnefs.—And the Lord caufed a deep deep to 
fall upon Adam. Genefs, ii. 21.—Depreffed ; funk; me¬ 
taphorically, low.—Their d.ep poverty abounded into 
the riches of their liberality. 2 Corinthians, viii. 2.—Bafs; 
grave in found.—The founds made by buckets in a well, 
are deeper and fuller than if the like percuffion were made 
in the open air. Bacon. 
DEEP, f The fea; the main; the abyfs of waters;, 
the ocean.—Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to 
God above, who fheweth his wonders in the deep. Bacon. 
What earth in her dark bowels could not keep 
From greedy man, lies fafer in the deep. Waller. 
The mod folemn or dill part.—The deep of night is crept 
upon our talk. Shakcfpeare. 
Virgin face divine 
Attrafts the haplefs youth through dorms and waves. 
Alone in deep of night. Philips. 
DEEP, adv. Deeply.—Where wounds of deadly hate 
have pierc’d fo deep. Milton. —Drink deep, or tade not the 
Pierian fpriiig. Pope. 
DEEP-BAY, a bay on the ead coad of the ifland of 
Antigua: one mile fouth of Green Ifland. 
DEEP-DRAW'ING, adj. Sinking deep into water: 
And the deep-drawing barks do there difgorge 
Their warlike fraughtage. Shakcfpeare. 
DEEP-MOU'THED, adj. Having a hoarfe and loud 
voice : 
Hills, dales, and forefls, far behind remain, 
While the warm feent draws on the deep-mouth'd train. Gay. 
Behold the Engliffi beach 
Pales in the Rood with men, with wives and boys, 
Whofe fliouts and claps outvoice that deep-mouth’d fea. 
Shakcfpeare. 
DEEP-MU'SING, adj. Contemplative; lod in 
thought: 
But he deep-mnfing o’er the mountains flray’d, 
Through many thickets of the'woodland flrade. Pope, 
DEEP-REVOL'VING, adj. Deeply confidering : 
The deep-revolving witty Buckingham 
No more (hall be the neighbour to my counfels. Shakejps 
DEEP-SEA LEAD,yi A lead at the bottom of which 
is a coat of white tallow ; to bring up dones, gravel, 
land, fltells, or the like, to know the difference of the 
ground. 
DEEP-SEA LINE, f. A fmall line tied to the fea- 
line, with which feamen found in deep waters. J 
DEE Pi. 
