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dead amiss en · ADJ

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  1. (not-comparable) Of a horse: too ill to compete.
    • Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […] 1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:
    • At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […] 1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286: