Dead"ly (?), a.
1.
Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
2.
Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.
Shak.
3.
Subject to death; mortal.
[Obs.]
The image of a deadly man.
Wyclif (Rom. i. 23).
Deadly nightshade Bot., a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.
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Dead"ly, adv.
1.
In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
"
Deadly pale."
Shak.
2.
In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
The groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Ezek. xxx. 24.
3.
In an implacable manner; destructively.
4.
Extremely.
[Obs.] "
Deadly weary."
Orrery. "So
deadly cunning a man."
Arbuthnot.
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