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

Deep
(Deep), adv. To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.

Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself.

Milton.

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Pope.

Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut, deep- seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, "deep-uddered kine."

Deep
(Deep), n.

1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.

Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.

Cowley.

The hollow deep of hell resounded.

Milton.

Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound.

Pope.

2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.

Thy judgments are a great deep.

Ps. xxxvi. 6.

Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk.

Shak.