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Deadly(medicine)
deadly(2)(dictionary)
deadly(1)(dictionary)
deadly nightshade(medicine)
deadly agaric(medicine)
Seven Deadly Sins, the(dictionary)
deadly 1, adjective(dictionary)
deadly 2, adverb(dictionary)
deadly nightshade(dictionary)

deadly(1) (iou) and zocco (iou)


deadly(1) (iou)



deadly adjective. OE.
[from DEAD adjective + -LY1.]
I.
Subject to death, mortal. OE-M19.
In danger of death; of or belonging to death. ME-E17.
II.
Causing fatal injury or serious damage; mortal; poisonous, venomous, pestilential. OE.
deadly NIGHTSHADE.
J. Beattie Tho' Fortune aim her deadliest blow. Tolkien To wield his sword with left hand more deadly than his right had been.
Christian Theology. Of sin: entailing damnation, mortal (as opp. venial), esp. designating each of the seven chief or cardinal sins. ME.
Aiming or involving an aim to kill or destroy; implacable; internecine. ME.
G. F. Kennan A deadly, implacable, snakelike enmity.
Resembling or suggestive of death; deathlike, esp. in unconsciousness or physical prostration; (of darkness, gloom, silence, etc.) intense; colloq. dreary. ME.
Shakespeare Comedy of Errors I know it by their pale and deadly looks.
Excessive, intense. colloq. M17.
Carlyle Why such deadly haste to make money?
Of aim etc.: accurate. E20.
deadlily adverb (rare) E17.
deadliness noun ME.

zocco (iou)



zocco noun.Pl. -os. M17-E18.
[Italian: cf. ZOCLE.]
= SOCLE.