deliver 
7. To utter, pronounce, or articulate, aR words ; 
produce, as tours in sin^'intf; enunciate for- 
mally, as before an assemblage : as, to drlirir 
an oration ; ho delivered the notes badly. 
The vowell is alwa.ves more easily ili'[i''r<-<i then the 
finiMinunt. I'l/tli'iilumi, Artc of Eng. I'oeslc, p. 101. 
Both the Oracles of Delpho* ntul Sihillas prophecies 
\\ere wholly ilrlitirretl in verses. 
Hir I'. Xiilnrii, Apol. forPoetric. 
To deliver battle, to deliver an attack, to give bat- 
tie ; at t.i.-k :ID enemy. 
Masscna dclicernl two battles at Fuentes de Onoro. 
fop. Encyc. 
= Syn. 1. To set free, lilwrate, extricate. 3. To cede, 
Kl'lUlt, relinquish, uivc Up. - 7. /Ve-m<f//<v, etc. See Ittti'r. 
II. intrnns. In molding, to leave the mold 
easily. Thus, plaster-of-Paris molds in {lotteries are 
often left unoiled go as to absorb the water freely from 
the clay which will then deliver. Molds for plaster casts 
are oiled for the same reason. See draw. 
deliver 2 (de-liv'er), . [< ME. deliver, delyvere, 
< OF. delicre, free, prompt, alert, < ML. 'de- 
liber (cf. adv. delioere, promptly), < L. de + 
liber, free ; cf. adv. libere, freely. Cf. deliver*, 
formed of the same elements.] Free; nimble; 
active ; light ; agile. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, 
And wonderly delyvere, and gret of strengthe. 
Chaucer, Oen. Pro), to C. T., 1. 84. 
Having chosen his soldiers, of nimble, leane, and delirrr 
men. Unlimited. 
Pyrocles, of a more fine and deliver strength, watching 
his time when to give fit thrusts, . . . would . . . soon 
liHve made an end of Anaxius. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
deliver 3 *, '' ' See deliber. Chaucer. 
deliverable (de-liv'er-a-bl), a. [< deliver! + 
-able.} That may be or is to be delivered. 
deliverance ((le-liv'er-ans), n. [< ME. deliv- 
eraitee, drlirrra'ance, < OF. delivrance (F. deli- 
vrance = Pr. delivransa = Sp. delibranza (obs.) 
= It. deliberanza), < delivrcr, deliver: see de- 
liver 1 and -ance.'] 1. The act of setting free ; 
release or rescue, as from captivity, oppression, 
danger, or evil of any kind. 
In hir standeth all your deliuerance, 
Or elles your deth without doubt any. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1863. 
Qod sent me ... to save your lives by a great deliver' 
ance. Gen. xlv. 7. 
He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach 
deliverance, to the captives. Luke iv. 18. 
2. Acquittal of a prisoner by the verdict of a 
jury. 3. Parturition; childbirth; delivery. 
In the labour of women it helpeth to the easy deliver* 
ance. Bacon. 
Hence 4. The act of disburdening of any- 
thing ; especially, the act of disburdening the 
mind by uttering one's thoughts. 
Assume that you are saying precisely that which all 
think, and in the How of wit and love roll out your para- 
doxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt 
80 at least shall you get an adequate deliverance. 
Kiitri-isiin, Essays, 1st ser., p. 217. 
5. The act of giving or transferring from one 
to another. 6. Utterance; declaration; also, 
a particular statement^ especially of opinion ; 
specifically, an authoritative or official utter- 
ance by speech or writing ; a decision in a con- 
troversy. 
You have it from his own deliverance. 
Ska*., All's Well, 11. 6. 
To be of any use in the controversy, then, the immedi- 
ate deliverance of my consciousness must lie competent 
to assure me of the non-existence of something which by 
hypothesis is not iu my consciousness. 
W. K. Cliford, Lectures, II. 162. 
Indeed, so incessant and persistent have been the de- 
KnronMI of their lordships upon the subject, that it 
might almost seem as though a bishop would have con- 
sidered himself lacking in duty if he had omitted any op- 
portunity of sounding the note of alarm 
Brit. Quarterly Jiev., I.XXXIII. 99. 
7. In Scots law, the expressed decision of a 
judge or an arbitrator, interim or final. When 
interim, it is technically called an interlocutor. 
deliverer (de-liv'er-er), n. [< ME. delyverer; 
< deliver + -er 1 .] 1. One who delivers, rescues, 
or sets free ; a savior or preserver. 
The Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel. 
Judges iii. 9. 
2. One who delivers by transferring or hand- 
ing over: as, a deliverer of parcels or letters. 
3f. One who declares or communicates. 
Tnlly, speaking of the law of nature, saith, that thereof 
tiixl himself was inventor, . . . deviser, discusser, '/</<>- 
fir. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viil. 460. 
deliveress (de-liv'er-es), n. [< deliver + -ess.] 
A female deliverer. [Bare.] 
Joan d'Arc, . . . the deliverer of the towne from our 
country men when they beseiged it. 
Evelyn, Memoirs, April 21. Kill. 
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deliverly (<lo-liv'er-li), adr. [< ME. nrlyrrrli/, 
-lirln : < ilil'inr- + -Iii'-.} Nimbly; cleverly; 
jauntily; actively. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Whan Caheriessaugh his brother i ;uuein. he U-pie v]K,n 
his feet, and sette on his heed his hatte delyuerly, ami h< nte 
a-gein his swerde, and appareilede hym to diffende. 
Merlin (K. E. T. 8.), 11. 196. 
Where IK) your ribbands, maids? swim with your bodies, 
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. 
Fletcher (ant awithrr). Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 5. 
Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a 
mechanical advantage in detaching it well and ' ' 
Kmerson, Clubs. 
delivernesst (de-liv'er-nes), . [< ME. delyrer- 
nes, -nesse; < deliver'* + -ness.] Agility; nim- 
bleness; speed. Chaucer. 
This, for his delyueriicme and swif tenesse, was sumamed 
Hcrefote. Fabyan, Chron., I. ccvili. 
delivery (de-liv'er-i), n. ; pi. deliveries (-iz). [< 
deliver* + -y, after livery.] 1. The act of set- 
ting free; the act of freeing from bondage, 
danger, or evil of any kind ; release ; rescue ; 
deliverance. 
He ... swore, with sobs, 
That he would lalraur my delivery. 
Shat., Rich. III., I. 4. 
In the deliuery of them that suruiue, no mans particular 
carefulnesse sailed one person, but the meere gooduesse 
of Qod hlmselfe. 
Quoted in Ca.pt. John Smith's True Travels, II. 70. 
2. A giving or passing from one to another; 
the act of transferring or handing over to an- 
other : as, the delivery of goods or of a deed ; 
the delivery of a parcel or a letter. 3. Surren- 
der; a giving up. 
The tlt'lirerffttt your royal father's person into the hands 
of the army. Sir J. Denhatn. 
4. In law, the placing of one person in legal 
possession of a thing by another. 0. Aid given 
m the act of parturition ; the bringing forth of 
offspring; childbirth. 6. Utterance; enuncia- 
tion ; manner of speaking or singing. 
I was charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and 
delivery. Addimn. 
7. The act of sending or putting forth; emis- 
sion ; discharge : as, the delivery of the ball iii 
base-ball, cricket, etc. ; the delivery of fire or of 
a charge in battle ; the delivery of a blow from 
the shoulder. 8. Capacity for pouring out or 
disburdening of contents : as, the delivery of a 
pipe. 9*. Free motion or use of the limbs; 
activity; agility. 
The duke had the neater limbs, and freer delivery. 
SirH. Wotton. 
10. In founding, allowance or free play given to 
a pattern so that it can be readily lifted from 
the mold. Also called draw-taper. Actual deliv- 
ery, or delivery In fact, in law, a transfer of physical pos- 
session. Constructive delivery, In law, such a change 
in the situation as in legal effect imports a transfer of pos- 
session. Delivery of juridical possession, in laic, a 
terra used in parts of the United States acquired from 
Mexico to denote the formal transfer of the possession of 
land required by Mexican law, which was necessary to the 
complete investure of title : corresponding to the common- 
law livery of seizin. I'nder Mexican administration it was 
performed by a magistrate of the vicinage, and it included 
the establishment of boundaries when they were uncertain. 
The purchaser, in the presence of the magistrate and wit- 
nesses, pulled up grass and stones and threw them to the 
four winds of heaven, in token of his legal and legitimate 
possession. The magistrate made * record of these pro- 
ceedings, duly attested by the witnesses, and gave a copy 
to the new owner. Delivery-roller, In math., the last 
of a series of rollers, or that which finally carries the ob- 
ject from the operative parts of the machine. Delivery- 
valve, the valve through which a pumped fluid Is dis- 
charged. General delivery, the delivery of mail from 
the delivery-window of a post-office upon application of 
the persons to whom It is addressed. Good delivery, in 
the law of sales, and particularly in the stock exchange, a 
delivery or tender by the seller proper to fulfll his obliga- 
tion. Jail delivery. See jailtlelirery. Symbolical 
delivery, in law, the delivery of property by handing over 
something else as a symbol, token, or representative of 
it, as, for Instance, the key of the warehouse containing it 
= Syn. 6. Elocution, Delivery. See elocution. 
dell 1 (del), n. [< ME. delle = MD. delle, D. del, 
a dale, vale, = G. dial, telle, a hollow ; a deriv. 
(as dim.) of ME. dal, dale, E. dale: see dale*-. 
For the relation of forms, cf. tell, tale.'} A 
small valley between hills ; a little dale ; a glen ; 
a ravine. 
That break [in the forest] is a dell ; a deep, hollow cup 
lined with turf. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xil. 
In a little dell among the trees there is a small ruined 
mosque. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 54. 
del! 2 t (del), n. [Origin obscure.] A young girl; 
a wench. [Thieves' cant.] 
My ilrll and my dainty wild dell. 
Middleton and. Deiker, Roaring Girl, v. 1. 
Delia Crusca (del'ii krus'kS). [It,: deUa, of 
the (< L. de, of, + ilia, that) ; cnisca, bran.] 
The name of an academy founded at Florence 
delphin 
in lf>K2, mainly for promoting the purity of tho 
Italian language. Its emblem was a sieve, and it* 
name referred to its purpose of sifting out the bran or 
refuse from the language. After a short period of Incor- 
poration In the Florentine Academy, It was revived In the 
early part of the nineteenth century. 
Della-Cruscan (del-a-krus'kan), a. and n. I. 
a. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or resem- 
bling the Academy della Crusca or its methods. 
The epithet Della-Cruscau was applied to a school of Rug- 
llsh poetry started by certain Englishmen at Florence to- 
ward the end of the eighteenth eentiuy, whose sentimen- 
talities and affectations found many imitators in England. 
Against it the satire of Gilford's "Baviad" (1794) was di- 
rected. 
The pent-np Imagination, which here and there had 
trickled off In Della-Cnucan dilettantelsm. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXIII. 83. 
II. H. A member of the Academy della Crus- 
ca, or of the English school of poetry named 
after it. 
Della Robbia ware. See ware?. ' 
delocalize (de-16'kal-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. de- 
localized, ppr. delocalizing. [< de- priv. + tocaf- 
ize.] To free from the limitations of locality; 
widen the scope or interests of. 
We can have no St. Simons or Pepyses till we have a 
Paris or London to delocalize our gossip ami give it his- 
toric breadth. Lomll, Study Windows, p. 92. 
The principle of representation was constantly delocaliz- 
ing the town, and bringing into the arena subjects which 
reminded men of their relationship to the state and the 
crown. //. E. Scudder, Noah Webster, p. 20. 
deloo (de-16"), n. [N. African.] A kind of 
North African duykerbok, Cephalolophus grim- 
mia, one of the pygmy antelopes, it is about s 
feet long, of a fawn color with whitish flanks, black an- 
kles, and a black stripe on the face running up to the tuft 
of hair on the poll. 
deloul, . See delul. Layard. 
Deloyala (de-lo-ra-W), n. [NL., < Or. Ap-or, 
clear, + iWof, glass.] A genus of tortoise-bee- 
tles: a synonym of Cojitocycla. 
The name was used by Chevrolet in De- 
jean's catalogue without diagnosis. An 
American species, Deloyala or Coptocycla 
clavata, Is 7.6 millimeters long, very broad- 
ly oval, pale, testaceous, and has the elytra 
brown, tuberculate, and giblnus, with a 
large hyaline spot in the middle of the 
side margin and a similar small snbapf- 
cal spot, whence the name. It feeds on 
tato-vines. Clubbed Tor- 
d ? 1 , p . 1 T 1 ' ^ ^ n im P r P r spelling of . 
dcff 1, delfV, ( Line shows nat- 
Dejphacida (del-fas'i-da), . pi. " 
[NL., < Delpliax (-ac-) + -irfa.] A group of 
hemipterous insects, typified by the genus Del- 
)>hax, regarded as one of the numerous subfam- 
ilies of fulgoridie, or referred to the C'iziidtf. 
Delphai (del'faks), n. [NL., < Gr. iet.Qaf, a 
young pig. ] A genus of phytophthirious hemip- 
terous insects, or plant-lice. I), saccharirora 
is a West Indian species very injurious to the 
sugar-cane. 
Delphian (del'fi-an), a. and . [< Delphi + -an.] 
I. a. 1 . Relating to Delphi, a town of ancient 
Greece, on Mount Parnassus in Phocis, or to 
the sanctuary of Apollo at that place, the most 
celebrated fane of Greek worship. 
The Delphian vales, the Palestines, 
The Meccas of the mini). 
llalleck. 
2. Of or pertaining to Apollo (as Apollo Del- 
phinius, of Delphi), or to his priestess (the 
Pythoness) of the oracle of Delphi, who under 
inspiration delivered the responses of the ora- 
cle; hence, inspired. 
An inward Delphian look. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ger., p. 822. 
Also Delphinian. 
H. n. 1. An inhabitant of Delphi. 
The /Wi>Am/w contributed a fourth, and collected every- 
where for It. C. 0. MiMer, Manual of Archaeol. (trans.), 1 80. 
2. With the definite article, Apollo. 
Delphic (del'fik), a. [< L. Delphictis, < Gr. AfP.- 
0"(of, pertaining to Ac/^ot, Delphi.] Same as 
Delphian. 
For still with Delphic emphasis she spann'd 
The quick invisible strings. Keatg. 
dolphin 1 ! (del'fin), . [ME. delphin, delfyn, < 
L. delphinus, ML. also delfinus, < Gr. fatyif, later 
also oetyiv, a dolphin (Delphinus delpliis). Hence 
dolphin and dauphin, q. v.] A dolphin. 
Thar huth oft ytake delphym, & se-calues, & balenes 
(gret fysch, as hyt were of whaales kumle). 
Trevita, tr. of Higden's Polychronlcon, 1. 41. 
delphin 1 (del'fin), a. [< L. delphinus, also delphin, 
a dolphin (iu ML. applied to the eldest son of the 
king of France : see dauphin): see delphinl, n., 
and <hl j>li in.] 1. In jooV., pertaining to a dol- 
