2. (Tennis) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same
game and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes
following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.
Deuce
(Deuce), n. [Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, teûz, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition,
ghost; or fr. OF. deus God, fr. L. deus ] The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also deuse.] [Low]
Deuced
(Deu"ced) a. Devilish; excessive; extreme. [Low] — Deu"ced*ly, adv.
Deuse
(Deuse n.; Deu"sed) a. See Deuce, Deuced.
Deuterocanonical
(Deu`ter*o*ca*non"ic*al) a. [Gr. second + E. canonical.] Pertaining to a second
canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; — said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Deuterogamist
(Deu`ter*og"a*mist) n. [See Deuterogamy.] One who marries the second time.
Deuterogamy
(Deu`ter*og"a*my) n. [Gr. second + wedding, marriage.] A second marriage, after the
death of the first husband of wife; — in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See
Bigamy. Goldsmith.
Deuterogenic
(Deu`ter*o*gen"ic) a. [Gr. second + root of to be born.] (Geol.) Of secondary origin; —
said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Deuteronomist
(Deu`ter*on"o*mist) n. The writer of Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy
(Deu`ter*on"o*my) n. [Gr. second + law: cf. L. Deuteronomium.] (Bibl.) The fifth book of
the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
Deuteropathia
(||Deu`ter*o*pa*thi"a Deu`ter*op"a*thy) n. [NL. deuteropathia, fr. Gr. second + suffering,
fr. to suffer: cf. F. deutéropathie.] (Med.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache
from an overloaded stomach.
Deuteropathic
(Deu`ter*o*path"ic) a. Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
Deuteroscopy
(Deu`ter*os"co*py) n. [Gr. second + -scopy.]
1. Second sight.
I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness
things unmeet for mortal eye.
Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden
signification. Sir T. Browne.
Deuterozooid
(Deu`ter*o*zo"oid) n. [Gr. second + E. zooid.] (Zoöl.) One of the secondary, and usually
sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations.
In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
Deuthydroguret
(Deut`hy*drog"u*ret) n. (Chem.) Same as Deutohydroguret.
Deuto-
(Deu"to- or Deut-) (dut-) [Contr. from Gr. second.] (Chem.) A prefix which formerly properly
indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which
is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
Deutohydroguret
(Deu`to*hy*drog"u*ret) n. [Pref. deut-, deuto- + hydroguret.] (Chem.) A compound
containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. [Obs.]
