Deprived or destitute of life; that state of a being, animal or vegetable, in which the organs of motion and life have ceased to perform their functions, and have become incapable of performing them, or of being restored to a state of activity. The men are dead who sought thy life. Exodus 4:19. It is sometimes followed by of before the cause of death; as, dead of hunger, or of a fever.

Having never had life, or having been deprived of vital action before birth; as, the child was born dead.

Without life; inanimate. All, all but truth, drops dead-born from the press.

Without vegetable life; as a dead tree.

Imitating death; deep or sound; as a dead sleep.

Perfectly still; motionless as death; as a dead calm; a dead weight.

Empty; vacant; not enlivened by variety; as a dead void space; a dead plain. We say also, a dead level, for a perfectly level surface.

Unemployed; useless; unprofitable. A man’s faculties may lie dead, or his goods remain dead on his hands. So dead capital or stock is that which produces no profit.

Dull; inactive; as a dead sale of commodities.

Dull; gloomy; still; not enlivened; as a dead winter; a dead season.

Still; deep; obscure; as the dead darkness of the night.

Dull; not lively; not resembling life; as the dead coloring of a piece; a dead eye.

Dull; heavy; as a dead sound.

Dull; frigid; lifeless; cold; not animated; not affecting; used of prayer.

Tasteless; vapid; spiritless; used of liquors.

Uninhabited; as dead walls.

Dull; without natural force or efficacy; not lively or brisk; as a dead fire.

In a state of spiritual death; void of grace; lying under the power of sin.

Impotent; unable to procreate.

Decayed in grace. Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Revelation 3:1.