n. 1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Deaneries 1. The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The residence of a dean. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]