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DEEP-THROA'TED, adj. With deep throats: 
Immediate in a flame, 
But foon obfeur’d with fmoke, all heav’n appear’d, 
From thofe deep-threated engines belch’d. Milton. 
DEEP-VAUL'TED, adj. Formed like a deep vault: 
And led their march 
From hell’s deep-vaulted den to dwell in light. Milton. 
DEEP-WAIS'TED, adj. [afeaterm.] Havingadeep 
waift ; having the quarter-deck pretty much elevated. 
“ Still waters are the deepest.” The Germans fay, 
Stille wajfer haben die ticfffle griinde. They who talk lead 
have generally the moil knowledge. 
To DEEP'EN, v. a. To make deep; to fink far be¬ 
low the furface.—The city of Rome would receive a 
great advantage from the undertaking, as it would raife 
the banks and deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addifon. —To 
darken ; to cloud; to make dark.—You mull deepen your 
colours fo, that the orpiment may be the higheft. Peacham. 
—To make fad or gloomy : 
Her glooiny prefence faddens all the feene. 
Shades ev’ry flow’r, and darkens ev’ry green, 
Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, 
And breathes a browner horror on the w-oods. Pope. 
DEEP'ING, or Market Deeping, a fmall town in 
Lincolnfhire, fituated among the fens, on the north fide 
of the river Welland, eight miles from Stamford, nine 
from Peterborough, twelve from Spalding, and ninety 
from London. It has a market on Wednefdays, and fairs 
fecond Wednefday after May u, Wednefday before Au- 
J uft i, and October io, principally for wood and cattle. 
lelow the town is a plain many miles in compafs, the 
deepeft in all this marfny county ; and it is remarkable 
that the channel of the river Glen, which runs from the 
weft, lies much higher than this plain. 
DEEP'LY, adv. To a great depth ; far below the fur- 
face.—Fear is a paffion that is mod deeply rooted in our 
natures, and flows immediately from the principle of felf- 
prefervation. Tillotfon.-— With great ftudy or fagacity ; not 
fuperficially; not careiefsly ; profoundly. Sorrowfully; 
folemnly ; with a great degree of ferioufnefs or fadnefs.— 
He figlied deeply in his fpirit. Mark , viii. 12. 
Upon the deck our careful general flood, 
And deeply mus’d on the fucceeding day. Dry den. 
With a tendency to darknefs of colour.—Having taken 
off the deeply red juice of buckthorn berries, I let it drop 
upon white paper. Boyle. —In a high degree.—To keep 
his promife with him, he had deeply offended both his 
nobles and people. Bacon. 
DEEP'NESS,/! Entrance far below the furface ; pro¬ 
fundity; depth.—Some fell upon flony places, and they 
withered, becaufe they had no deepnefs of earth. Matt.xYn.5. 
DEER,/! [beopt, Sax. t/iier, 'lent. 0 -^, Gr.] That 
clafs of animals which is hunted for venilon, containing 
many fubordinate fpecies; as the (tag or red deer, the 
buck or fallow deer, the roebuck, and others. See the 
article Cervus. —You have beaten my men, killed my 
deer, and broke open my lodge. Shakejpcare. —The pale 
that held my lovely deer. Waller. 
DEER-FALD,/! A park, or deer-fold. Cozvcl. 
DEER-HAYES, j\ Engines, or great nets made of 
cords, to catch deer; and no perfon not having a park, 
&c. fhall keep any of thefe nets, under the penalty of 
forty (hillings a month. 19 Hen. VII. c. 11. 
DEER-ISLAND, an ifland and townfhip of the Ame¬ 
rican States, in Penobfcot bay, in Hancock county, dif- 
tri<£t of Maine. It w-as incorporated in 1789, and lies 
305 miles north-euft of Bofton. 
DEER-STEALERS, J. A poacher of deer. Offen¬ 
ders of this clafs are implicated in the general rules re¬ 
lative to hunting in forefts, &c. for which fee the article 
Game. Several ancient ftatutes have been made to 
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punifh deer-ftealers; and a very fevere one, 9 Ges. I. c. 
22. known by the name of the Black Adi, agninft thofe 
and other offenders. See the article Black Ac t, vol iii. 
р. 76. See alfo 3 Edw. I. c. 20. againft t re fp afters in 
parks. 21 Edw. I. ft. 2. de malcfabloribus in paras. 1 Hen. 
VII. c. 7. of unlawful hunting in parks by night. 1 
Jac. I. c. 27. againft fellers and buyers of deer who are 
to forfeit forty fhillings. 3 Geo. I. c, 28. by which wound¬ 
ing or killing deer in a park is punifhable with tranf- 
portation. 
The above (except the laft ftat. 5 Geo. I. c. 28.) are 
at leaft fuperfeded in ufe, if not repealed, by 16 Geo. III. 
с. 30. which, though like feme others of the game laws 
inaccurately penned, or copied on record, is now gene¬ 
rally purfued for the punifhment of deer-ftealers. By 
16 Geo. III. c. 30. if any perfon fliail hunt, or take in a 
fnare, or kill or wound, any red or fallow deer, in any fo- 
reft, chafe, See. whether inclofed or not ; or in any in- 
clofed park, paddock, &c. or be aiding in fuch offence, 
they fhall forfeit twenty pounds for the firft offence ; and 
alfo thirty pounds for each deer wounded, killed, or 
taken. A game-keeper offending to forfeit double. For 
a fecond offence, offenders fhall be tranfported for feven 
years. Juftices to tranfmit convictions to the feftions. 
juftices may grant warrants to fearch for heads, ficins, 
See. of ftolen deer, and for toils, fnares, &c. and perfons 
having fuch in their polfeflion to forfeit from thirty 
pounds to ten pounds at the difcretionoftne juftic.es. 
Perfons unlawfully fetting nets or fnares, to forfeit for 
the firft offence from ten pounds to five pounds;, and, for 
every other offence, from twenty pounds to ten pounds. 
Perfons pulling down pales or fences of any foreft, chafe, 
park, paddock, wood, &c. fubject to the penalties an¬ 
nexed to the firft offence for killing deer. Dogs, guns, 
and engines, may be feized by park-keepers ;. and per¬ 
fons refilling fhall be tranfported for feven years. Penal¬ 
ties may be levied by diftrefs; In default of which of- 
fenders to be committed for twelve months. No certio¬ 
rari to be allowed, unlefs the party convicted become 
bound to the profecutor in iool. to pay him all cofts and 
damages; and to the juftice in fixty pounds to profecute 
the certiorari with effeft. Profecutions are limited to 
twelve' months from the time of the offence committed- 
By 28 Geo. II. c. 19. deftroying gofs, furze, and fern, in 
forefts and chafes, being the covert for deer, fubjefts 
the offenders to a penalty from five pounds to forty fhil¬ 
lings, or to three months imprifonment. 
DEER'FIELD, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Cumberland county, New Jerfey. 
DEER'FIELD, or the Pocomtic, a river of North 
America, which rifes at Stratton, in Bennington county, 
Vermont, and after receiving a number of flreams from 
the adjoining towns, unites on entering Maffachufetts ^ 
thence winding in an eaft direction, it receives North 
river, and empties into Connecticut river, between the 
townfhips of Greenfield and Deerfield, where it is about 
fifteen rods wide. Excellent tra&s of meadow lie on its 
banks. 
DEER'FIELD, a pleafant town of the American 
States, in Hampfhire county, Maflachufetts, on the weft 
bank of Connecticut river, from which the compadt part 
of the town is feparated by a chain of high hills. It is 
in the midft of a fertile country, and has a fmall inland 
trade. It was incorporated in 1681, and contains, by 
the cenfus, 1330 inhabitants: feventeen miles north of 
Northampton, and 109 north by weft of Bofton. The 
houfe in which the reverend Mr. Williams and his family 
were captured by the Indians in the early, fettlement of 
this town, is ftill (landing, and the hple in the door, cut 
by the Indians with their hatchets, is ftill (hewn as a cu= 
riofity. An academy, incorporated in' 1797, by the name 
of the Deerjicld Academy, is eftablifhed in this town.. 
DEER'FIELD, a town of the American States, in 
Rockingham county, New Hampfhire, was part of the 
townfhip of Nottingham, nineteen.miles, louth-eaft. -of. 
Concord, 
