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11 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sainted \Saint"ed\, a. 1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. ``A most sainted king.'' --Shak. Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. --Milton. 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for {dead}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\, a. 1. (Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and therefore, is not in use 2. Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games. [In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. --Encyc. of Sport. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS de['a]d; akin to OS d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See {Die}, and cf {Death}.] 1. Deprived of life; -- opposed to {alive} and {living}; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as a dead tree; a dead man. ``The queen, my lord, is dead.'' --Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. --Arbuthnot. Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. --Shak. 2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as dead matter. 3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as a dead sleep. 4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as dead calm; a dead load or weight. 5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as a dead floor. 6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as dead capital; dead stock in trade 7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc 8. Monotonous or unvaried; as a dead level or pain; a dead wall. ``The ground is a dead flat.'' --C. Reade. 9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as a dead shot; a dead certainty. I had them a dead bargain. --Goldsmith. 10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak. 11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as dead faith; dead works ``Dead in trespasses.'' --Eph. ii 1. 12. (Paint.) a Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect. b Not brilliant; not rich; thus brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson. 13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead. 14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as the dead spindle of a lathe, etc See {Spindle}. {Dead ahead} (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go {Dead angle} (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. {Dead block}, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car {Dead calm} (Naut.), no wind at all {Dead center}, or {Dead point} (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by the lever L. {Dead color} (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it {Dead coloring} (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. {Dead door} (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. {Dead flat} (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. {Dead freight} (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. --Abbott. {Dead ground} (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. {Dead hand}, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. ``Serfs held in dead hand.'' --Morley. See {Mortmain}. {Dead head} (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. {Dead heat}, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. {Dead horse}, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] {Dead language}, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\, n. 1. The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as the dead of winter. When the drum beat at dead of night. --Campbell. 2. One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. And Abraham stood up from before his dead. --Gen. xxiii. 3. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\, v. t. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. [Obs.] Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me --Chapman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\, adv To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.] I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. --Dickens. {Dead drunk}, so drunk as to be unconscious. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dead \Dead\, v. i. To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.] So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dead adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: {alive(p)}] 2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: {live}] 3: (informal) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: {all in(p)}, {beat(p)}, {bushed(p)}, {dead(p)}] 4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" 5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" 6: total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn: {dead(a)}, {utter(a)}] 7: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: {inanimate}, {nonliving}] [ant: {animate}] 8: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}] 9: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: {deadened}] 10: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" 11: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: {idle}] 12: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}, {stagnant}] 13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" 14: not surviving in active use "Latin is a dead language" 15: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" 16: no longer in force or use inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" [syn: {defunct}] 17: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" 18: sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn: {dead(a)}] 19: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: {drained}] 20: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" [syn: {lifeless}] 21: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" [ant: {living}] 2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly}, {suddenly}, {short}] 2: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: {absolutely}, {perfectly}, {utterly}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: dead adj 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support. 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: `live'. Compare {dead code}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: dead 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of {hardware}. 2. At {XEROX PARC}, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support. [{Jargon File}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: DEAD, adj Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! Squatol Johnes
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