DEAD-LIGHTS, certain wooden posts which are made to fasten into the cabin-windows, to prevent the waves from gushing into the ship in a high sea. As they are made exactly to fit the windows, and are strong enough to resist the waves, they are always fixed in on the approach of a storm, and the glass lights taken out, which must otherwise be shattered to pieces by the surges, and suffer great quantities of water to enter the vessel.
DEAD-MEN'S-EYES, in the sea language, a kind of blocks, with many holes in them, but no shevers, whereby the shrouds are fastened to the chains: the crow-feet reeve also through these holes; and, in some ships, the main-stays are set tight in them; but then they have only one hole, through which the lanyards are passed several times. See Plate CLXIX.
DEAD'S PART. See LAW INDEX.