disease incident to young trees, and cured by cutting off the dead parts close to the next good twig or shoot, and claying them over as in grafting.

Dead-Water, at sea, the eddy-water just astern of a ship; so called, because it does not pass away so swift as the water running by her sides does. They say that a ship makes much dead-water when she has a great eddy following her stern.

DEADLY-CARROT. See Thapsia.

Deadly Feud, in English law-books, a profession of irreconcilable enmity, till a person is revenged by the death of his enemy. The word feud is derived from the German Feld; which, as Hottoman observes, signifies modo bellum, modo capitales inimicitias*. Such enmity and revenge was allowed by law in the time of the Saxons, viz. If any man was killed, and a pecuniary satisfaction was not made to the kindred, it was lawful for them to take up arms and revenge themselves on the murderer: which was called deadly feud. And this probably was the original of an Appeal.