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deáf
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deáf
. Add: I. deaf, without hearing :-- Deáffra manna eáran, Hml. Th. ii. 16, 17. II. imperfect in some essential quality, sterile :-- Se æker ðe bið unwæsðmbǽre oððe ungefynde corn bringð oððe deáf terra quae sterilem segetem gignit, Part. 411, 20. [Cf. Icel. daufr insipid; and see N. E. D. deaf, § 6.]
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DEÁF
; adj. DEAF; surdus :-- Deáf surdus vel surdaster, Ælfc. Gl. 77; Som. 72, 21; Wrt. Voc. 45, 54. Ic swá swá deáf ne gehýrde ego tamquam surdus non audiēbam, Ps. Lamb. 37, 14. Eart ðú dumb and deáf thou art dumb and deaf, Exon. 99 a; Th. 370, 26; Seel. 65. Næddran deáfne aspĭdis surdæ, Ps. Lamb. 57, 5. Hwá geworhte dumne oððe deáfne quis fabricātus est mutum et surdum? Ex. 4, 11. Hí lǽddon him ǽnne deáfne and dumbne addūcunt ei surdum et mutum, Mk. Bos. 7, 32: Exon. 113 a; Th. 433, 3; Rä. 50, 2.
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deáf
dived, Exon. 126 b; Th. 487, 18; Rä. 73, 4; p. of dúfan to dive, q v.
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