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.
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.
