Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of deaf or deave.
  • A dialectal form of dive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Deaf.

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  • 1. Deaf. (Obsolete -- Chaucer, 1913 Webster)

    2. A coerced payment; "protection" money. (The Double-Tongued Dictionary)

    November 4, 2008