Chapter Decurtation to Deep of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. Power of action; agency; efficiency. [Obs.]

To be, both will and deed, created free.

Milton.

4. Fact; reality; — whence we have indeed.

5. (Law) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

The term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate, and it is the prevailing doctrine that a deed must be signed as well as sealed, though at common law signing was formerly not necessary.

Blank deed, a printed form containing the customary legal phraseology, with blank spaces for writing in names, dates, boundaries, etc.

6. Performance; — followed by of. [Obs.] Shak.

In deed, in fact; in truth; verily. See Indeed.

Deed
(Deed), v. t. To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. [Colloq. U. S.]

Deedful
(Deed"ful) a. Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

Deedless
(Deed"less), a. Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

Deedless in his tongue.

Shak.

Deed poll
(Deed" poll`) (Law) A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill.

Deedy
(Deed"y) a. Industrious; active. [R.] Cowper.

Deem
(Deem) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deemed (demd); p. pr. & vb. n. Deeming.] [OE. demen to judge, condemn, AS. deman, fr. dom doom; akin to OFries. dema, OS. adomian, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. dæma, Sw. dömma, Dan. dömme, Goth. domjan. See Doom, n., and cf. Doom, v.]

1. To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.]

Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree.

Chaucer.

2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.

For never can I deem him less him less than god.

Dryden.

Deem
(Deem), v. i.

1. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.

And deemest thou as those who pore,
With aged eyes, short way before?

Emerson.

2. To pass judgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Deem
(Deem), n. Opinion; judgment. [Obs.] Shak.