Dee
the name of several British rivers. (1) A river of Scotland, partly in Kincardineshire, but chiefly in Aberdeenshire, one of the most finely wooded and one of the best salmon rivers in Great Britain. It rises on the S. W. border of Aberdeenshire, and flows gen- DEED erally E. 87 miles to the German ocean, having Aberdeen at its mouth. (2) A river of north Wales and Cheshire; rises in Lake Bala, Merionethshire; flows N.
E., N., and N. W. to the Irish Sea 20 miles below Chester; length, about 80 miles. The ancient Britons held its waters sacred. (3) A river of Scotland, county of Kirkcudbright, rises in Loch Dee, a lonely lake, 7 furlongs long and from 1½ to 4 furlongs wide, situated among the western hills. It flows S. E. and S., and falls into Kirkcudbright Bay; length, 38 miles.