Deaf

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deaf \Deaf\ (?; 277), v. t.
     To deafen. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Deaf \Deaf\ (d[e^]f or d[=e]f; 277), a. [OE. def, deaf, deef,
     AS. de['a]f; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan.
     d["o]v, Sw. d["o]f, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the
     original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses),
     and perh. to Gr. tyflo`s (for qyflo`s) blind, ty^fos smoke,
     vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage. Cf. {Dum}b.]
     1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part;
        unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf
        man.
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              Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. --Shak.
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     2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive;
        regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or
        exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
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              O, that men's ears should be
              To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! --Shak.
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     3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
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              Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]
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              A deaf murmur through the squadron went. --Dryden.
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     5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs.
        or Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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              If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they
              [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds
              will be deaf, void, light, and naught. --Holland.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deaf
       adj 1: lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
              [ant: {hearing(a)}]
       2: (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay
          heed; "deaf to her warnings" [syn: {deaf(p)}, {indifferent(p)}]
       n : people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the
           deaf use sign language"
       v : make or render deaf; "a deafening noise" [syn: {deafen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "deaf":
     authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed,
     constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to reason,
     deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless,
     fanatical, hard of hearing, headstrong, heedless, hidebound,
     illiberal, impervious, indifferent, insensible, insensitive,
     insular, intractable, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
     mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
     narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, oblivious, parochial,
     pertinacious, perverse, petty, pigheaded, positive, preoccupied,
     provincial, purblind, self-willed, shortsighted, small,
     small-minded, stone-deaf, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, stunned,
     surd, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, uncatholic, uncharitable,
     unconcerned, unconscious, ungenerous, unhearing, unheedful,
     unliberal, unmoved, unpersuadable, unresponsive, unyielding,
     word-deaf
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND. A man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an 
  idiot. (q.v.) 1 Bl. Com. 304; F. N. B. 233; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2111.