DEL 
an appeal to the king in the court of chancery, See Covar 
of os egates. 
For delegates in academical caufes; fee Univerfity 
Cov 
DELEGATION, a commiffion extraordinary given a 
judge to take cognizance of and determine fome caufe, 
In the civil law, delgga denotes a fort of furren- 
der, neta | a ae bt fitates another debtor is his place. 
ee &s delegationibus. 
This eae differs £ erring, or tra es 
elegation, viz. 
third, who binntelt j Fs indebted 
to the debtor, and on pare the debtor transfers the obli- 
gation he was under to pay the eae delegating him, as 
it were, for that purpofe. But a fimple transfer, it is 
graphy, a {mail town of France 
Upper Rhine, chief place of : dif i& of the fame name, 
fituated on the river Byrfe, with a populatioa of go4 indi- 
viduals. It has a fubprefeét, a court of juftice, and a re- 
gilter office. Its canton has an extent of 307% kiliometres, 
32 communes, and 10,118 inhabitants. ‘l'ne whole diftri 
ns, 107 communes, 35,779 emer 
of 920 oa The country is 
mountainous, roduces very li 
e vear © 17y3 Délémont belonged to the de 
of Bafle. The prince bifhop had a palace here, and the ca 
nons of Moutiers fome very elegant houfes. Near Délé. 
mont are fine quarries of white free-{tone, refembling marble, 
a mineral voring, and other natural curiofities, but chiefly 
petrification a bin Statiftique de la France. Dic- 
tionnaire de la Sui 
DELE TERIOUS (from dvAew, noceo, I hurt), a term 
fometimes ufed among naturalifts for cs aa as are of a 
pernicious and poifonous nature. See P 
DE ine, where fone or - coal i is dug. 
ity to wae r di 
F of nee aie coal lying in veins under ground, 
before o is dug 
F, or Dale of Coals, is alfo a certain quantity, dug 
out: as amine or,pit. Se 
Der is al ufed in Heraldry for one of the iigage ia 
of honour; being a f{quare in the middle of the efcut 
cheon. 
A delf tenne was anciently due to him who receded from 
his own challenge, or any way departed from his parole, 
or word. there = two or more delfs in an panes 
it is then no longer an abatement: fo alfo, if it be c 
metal, or ee coca 3 it then becomes a ae ge of per- 
fea bea ing. 
ai or oe ahs = Fayence, a kind of pottery of 
are earth, covered n enamel, or white g 
‘Foreep he eben fed 3 in fercnl hd a Wale 5 
‘formed of thefe' materials mult be dried very gently, to.avoid 
“cracking. ‘bey are.then to -be -placed.in.a furnace as 
q 
DEL 
ecive a flicht baking, and they are laftly to be covered with 
nothing but white enamel, ought to be fo opake as not to 
asad the ware under it. ‘The enamels for delf.ware are 
mpofed of fand or flints, vitrifying ei calx of lead, and 
oy of ting The vitrification of fand is effeGted by fouiex 
what lefs than an equal part of alkaline falt, or twice its 
weight of calx of lead, and one part of calx of tin, which is 
ee for giving a white opake colour to mafs, is 
e added to thre ur parts of all the other ingredients 
taken together. Antic recommends the white 
enamel, ufed in glazing, a mixture of a hundred pounds of 
calx - am with about a feventh part of that quantity of 
calx » for common delf, or a fovrth part of calx o 
tin for the fineflt delf; a hundred, or a hundred and ten 
of fine al ule a twenty or thirty pounds of 
Poni or falt of make this enamel, lead and 
tin are calcined ae hs ih a {trong fire, or the fand ts 
alfo to be made into a frit with the falt or afhes. The 
whole, being well mixed and ground together, is placed ur- 
der the furnace, a it is melted and saa during the 
baking of the ware. Then it is to be gro na mill, and 
applied as above ae eéted. Dict. of Chem. Tog. edit. 17775 
ee Enamet, Giazine, and Porce.ain 
DELF , Fran = in pes graphy, a learned French 
monk, was ioe at Mon Auvergne, in the year 1637. 
He entered upon the Sete life at Clermont, in 1606. 
where he recommended himfelf to the notice and refpe& of 
his fuperiors, as well by his fleady application, as by his 
talents s fixed ~ - the a eee of the cele- 
edition orks of St. 
work ce applied himfelf with all dili- 
sa Rs aies prepar fase for the pub-. 
onym that expo 
a] 
lication, when an tract, ofed church 
abufes, came ont, a was amp to him. For this he 
was unjaitly banithed, having, it is believed, had no con- 
cern in the offence for which he fuffered punifhment. The 
aa of his exile was Lower where 
able to proceed on his great wo 
his pete called upon t ome 
lic occafion, ey the elle in his pailaze- 
d, and he w number of thofe that 
This heed in Oaeber 1676, in the 
thirty-ninth year of his age. -He was author of feveral 
works which are not ene to the.Englifh re 
hiltorical eulogy, entitled, «© The Epitaph of Cafimir, King 
f Poland, who, after - having abdicated his Crown, retired 
ecame bot of St. Germain de Pres,’* 
iderable merit. soe i. 
O, in Geography, a tawn of European Ture 
key, and capital of Lower Albania, one the pacha refides ; 
3506 miies W. of empire Ma and 60 S.S..W: of EEedeffa. 
-N, lat. 40° 4/.E. long. 21° 15’. : 
DELFT, or Van Daur ave, Wirniam James, in 
Biograph » an excellent painter and engraver, .was the foa 
of William Delft, and-a near relation (grandfon, according 
to me of Michael Miravelt, and born at Delft in 
61 rew and painted. eas with. excellent.tafte ; 
avelt, - aque a fue 
efsfully imitated him 
into France, and 
is a work of confi 
ELFIN 
-IO19. 
. -and having been initru@ed by 
mede of defign and colouring, cae fee 
in the managem his pencil, fo that he is faid to have 
‘equalled Miravelt in force and delicacy. Hegaen he is 
more generally: known as an-engraver ; and: his belt prints 
are highly: finifhed: fome of them are executed in a bold, 
powerful, epentityle, which produces.a fine ce eh 
