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English Dictionary: death penalty	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deadpan adv without betraying any feeling; "she told the joke deadpan" adj deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" Synonym(s): deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker- faced, unexpressive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
death benefit n insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
death penalty n putting a condemned person to death [syn: execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
duty-bound adj under a moral obligation to do something [syn: {duty- bound(p)}, obliged(p)]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Adipoma \[d8]Ad`i*po"ma\, n.; L. pl. {-mata}. [NL. See       {Adipose}; {-oma}.] (Med.)       A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. --       {Ad`i*pom"a*tous}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8T88te-de-pont \[d8]T[88]te`-de-pont"\       (t[amac]t`d[eit]*p[ocir]N"), n.; pl. {T[88]tes-de-pont}. [F.,       head of a bridge.] (Mil.)       A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy,       for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gerund \Ger"und\, n. [L. gerundium, fr. gerere to bear, carry,       perform. See {Gest} a deed, {Jest}.] (Lat. Gram.)       1. A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases             of the singular number, and governing cases like a             participle.          2. (AS. Gram.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and             usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the             {dative infinitive}; as, [bd]Ic h[91]bbe mete t[93]             etanne[b8] (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the             name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in             -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a             stone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dead \Dead\ (d[ecr]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de[a0]d;       akin to OS. d[omac]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[edh]r,       Sw. & Dan. d[94]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. [bd]The queen, my             lord, is dead.[b8] --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. [bd]The ground is a dead flat.[b8] --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. [bd]Dead in trespasses.[b8] --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. [bd]Serfs held in dead hand.[b8] --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 plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire             grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part.                      {Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}.          {Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}.          {Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place             of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as             given by compass, and the distance made on each course as             found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the             aid of celestial observations.          {Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's             floor.          {Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to             determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the             ship's length.          {Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}.          {Dead set}. See under {Set}.          {Dead shot}.             (a) An unerring marksman.             (b) A shot certain to be made.          {Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files.          {Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or             other openings.          {Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a             ship's stern when sailing.          {Dead weight}.             (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden.             (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy                   goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.             (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live                   weight being the load. --Knight.          {Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the             ship's course.          {To be dead}, to die. [Obs.]                         I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer.          Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L.       punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See       {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.]       1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything,             esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle             or a pin.          2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle             used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others;             also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point;             -- called also {pointer}.          3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined             termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a             tract of land extending into the water beyond the common             shore line.          4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument,             as a needle; a prick.          5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or             supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither             parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has             neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes             conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of             which a line is conceived to be produced.          6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant;             hence, the verge.                         When time's first point begun Made he all souls.                                                                               --Sir J.                                                                               Davies.          7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the             divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed             in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a             stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence,             figuratively, an end, or conclusion.                         And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer.                         Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope.          8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative             position, or to indicate a transition from one state or             position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position             or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of             depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by             tenpoints. [bd]A point of precedence.[b8] --Selden.             [bd]Creeping on from point to point.[b8] --Tennyson.                         A lord full fat and in good point.      --Chaucer.          9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or             character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a             peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as,             the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story,             etc.                         He told him, point for point, in short and plain.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon.                         Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ?                                                                               --Milton.          10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an             argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp.,             the proposition to be established; as, the point of an             anecdote. [bd]Here lies the point.[b8] --Shak.                         They will hardly prove his point.      --Arbuthnot.          11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a             punctilio.                         This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak.                         [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser.          12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or             time; as:             (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or                   characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of                   perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a                   tune. [bd]Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a                   flourish, but a point of war.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.             (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note,                   to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half,                   as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a                   half note equal to three quarter notes.          13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or             zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the             intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere,             and named specifically in each case according to the             position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the             solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points,             etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}.          14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the             escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}.          15. (Naut.)             (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the                   compass}, below); also, the difference between two                   points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.             (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See                   {Reef point}, under {Reef}.          16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together             certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott.          17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels             point. See Point lace, below.          18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.]          19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.             [Cant, U. S.]          20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side,             about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in             advance of, the batsman.          21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game;             as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}.          22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of             type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica             type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}.          23. A tyne or snag of an antler.          24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.          25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as,             tierce point.          Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the                sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics,                perspective, and physics, but generally either in the                geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition                of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or                qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the                specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon                point, dry point, freezing point, melting point,                vanishing point, etc.          {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly.             --Shak.          {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, [or] On, {the point}, as             near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep.,             6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of             speaking. [bd]In point to fall down.[b8] --Chaucer.             [bd]Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken,             recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his             side.[b8] --Milton.          {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}.          {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at             which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the             nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either             with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with             each eye separately (monocular near point).          {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the             greater weight of authority.          {On the point}. See {At point}, above.          {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished             from that made on the pillow.          {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels             lace (Brussels ground).          {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines,             but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for             instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base.          {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes             its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and             concavity change sides.          {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of             order or propriety under the rules.          {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the             point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the             spectator.          {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is             seen or any subject is considered.          {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of             division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the             corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is             supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the             directions of east, west, north, and south, are called             cardinal points, and the rest are named from their             respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N.,             N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}.          {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil             for transferring a design.          {Point system of type}. See under {Type}.          {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses             some property not possessed by points in general on the             curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc.          {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a             controversy.          {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to.          {To make}, [or] {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was             proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or             position.          {To mark}, [or] {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket,             etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run,             etc.          {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule;             to stretch one's authority or conscience.          {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and             ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the             consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or             vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Dataphone Digital Service          (DDS) The first private-line digital       service offered by {AT&T}, with data rates typically at 2.4,       4.8, 9.6 and 56 kilobits per second.   DDS is now part of       AT&T's {Accunet} family of services.   Most LEC (local exchange       carriers) and IXC (IntereXchange Carriers) offer similar       services.          (1995-02-28)