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to tranfmit.—If a true account iiiay.be expected by fu¬ 
ture ages from the prefent, your lordfhip will be delivered, 
over to pofterity ih a fairer character than I have given. 
Dry Jen. 
To DELIVER UP, v. a. To furrender; to give up.— 
lie that fpared not his own Son, but delivered him up for 
us all, how fliall he not, with him alfo, freely give us all 
things ! Rom. viii. 32. 
Are the cities, that I got with v/ounds, 
D liver'd up again with peaceful words ? Shakefpeare. 
DELI'VER ANCE,yi \_delivrance, F.] The a£t of free¬ 
ing from captivity, flavery, or any opprellion ; refeue.— 
He hath lent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of fight to the 
blind, to fet at liberty thofe that are bound. Luke iv. 18. 
-—O God, command deliverances for Jacob. Pfalm. xliv. 4. 
Whate’er befalls, your life fliall be my care ; 
One death or one deliv' ranee we will fiiare. Drydcn. 
The aft of delivering a thing to another: now commonly 
called delivery. The aft of bringing children.—People 
have a fuperftitious belief, that in the labour of women 
it helpeth to the eafy deliverance. Bacon. —The aft of 
fpeaking ; utterance ; pronunciation: now commonly i/c- 
live'ry : 
If ferioufiy I may convey my thoughts 
In this my light deliv'rance, I have lpoke 
With one that in her fex, her years profeflion, 
Wifdom and conftancy, hath amaz’d me more 
Than I dare blame my weaknefs. Shakefpeare. 
DELI'VERER,y. A faver ; arefeuer; a preferver ; 
a relealer: 
By that feed 
Is meant thy great Deliverer, who fliall bruife 
The ferpent’s head. Milton. 
Him their deliverer Europe does confefs ; 
All tongues extol him, all religions blefs. Halifax. 
A relater ; one that communicates fomething by fpeech 
or writing.—Divers chemical experiments, delivered by 
fober authors, have been believed falfe, only becaufe the 
menftruums were not as highly reftified, or exquifitely 
depurated, as thofe that were ufed by the deliverers of thole 
experiments. Boyle. 
DELI'VERY, /. The aft of delivering. Releafe ; 
refeue ; faving : 
He fwore, with fobs, 
That lie would labour my delivery. Shakefpeare. 
A furrender; aft of giving up.—Nor did he in any de¬ 
gree contribute to the delivery of his houfe, which was 
at firft imagined, becaufe it was fo ill, or not at all, de¬ 
fended. Clarendon. —Utterance; pronunciation; fpeech. 
I was charmed with the gracefulnefs of his figure and 
delivery., as well as with his difeourfes. Addfon. —Ufe of 
the limbs ; activity.—The earl was the taller, and much 
the fironger ; but the duke had the neater limbs, and 
freer delivery. H r otton. —Childbirth. — Like as a woman 
with child, that draweth near the time of her dclivciy, is 
in pain, and crieth out. Ifaiah, xxvi. 7. 
DE'LIUS (Chriftopher Traugott), author of fome 
ufeful works on mining ; born at Wallhaufen in Thurin¬ 
gia, and defeended from a noble family which had ac¬ 
quired conliderable property during the wars of the fe- 
veriteenth century. He ferved a long time in the army, 
applied afterwards to the lciences, and went to Vienna at 
a period when his mother’s-brother, Von Jufii, was in 
high reputation in that city. Here he embraced the ca¬ 
tholic religion, and obtained a place in the efiablifliment 
of the Hungarian mines, where he rofe to the port: of pro- 
fefibr in the academy of mines at Chemnitz. He was at 
laft invited to Vienna, where he was employed in the de¬ 
partment of the mines and the mint. Being, however, 
in a weak (late of health, he fet out for Pifa, in order 
DEL 
to try the effect of the baths, but had not firength to 
proceecTfarther than Florence, where he died on the 21ft 
of January, 1779, in the fifty-firft year of his age. He has 
made himfelf celebrated by the following works, written 
in German : 1. A Differtation on the Origin of Moun¬ 
tains, and of the different Kinds of Veins found in them ; 
alfo of the Mineralifation of Metals, and particularly 
Gold : this work was publifiied by profellbr Schreber, 
Leipfic, 1770, 8vo. 2. An Introdudtion to the Art of 
Mining, both in Theory and Practice, Vienna, 1773, 4to, 
this -work was tranflated into French by order of the 
king of France, and printed at Paris, in 2 vols. 4to. 
DEL'KENHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Hcffe Darmlladt: 
five miles north-north-eaft of Mentz. 
DELKI'RAS, a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : forty miles weft of Tocat. 
DELL, f. [from dal, Dut.] A pit; a hole in the 
ground ; any cavjty in-the earth, wider than a ditch and, 
narrower than a valley : 
I know each lane, and every alley green, 
Dingle, or bulky dell, of this wild wood. Milton; 
But, foes to fun-fhine, mod they took delight 
In dells and dales, conceal’d from human fight. Tickell. 
DELLAMCOT'TA, a fortrefs of Afia, in the coun¬ 
try of Bootan, which commands the principal pafs over 
the mountains; taken by the Englifh in 1773, by a de¬ 
tachment under the command of captain John Jones: 
fifty miles fouth-weft of Taflafudon, and 175 north of 
Moorfhedabad. 
DFIL'LE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Befort: three leagues fouth-eaft of Befort. 
DEL'LYS, orTEDDELES, a fea-port town of Africa, 
in the country of Algiers : fifteen leagues eaft of Algiers. 
DELMA'TIUS (FI. Jul.), a nephew of Conftantine 
the Great, honoured with the title of Caefar, and put in 
pofleflion of Thrace, Macedonia, and Achaia. His great 
virtues were unable to fave him from a violent death, 
and he was affalfinatcd by his own foldiers, &c. 
DEL'ME, a town of F'rance, in the department of the 
Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Chateau Salins : two leagues north-weft of Chateau 
Salins. 
DEL'ME, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Wefer, near Delmenhorft, 
DEL'MENFIORST, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and capital of a fmall county on the river 
Delme, near its union with the Wefer, containing only 
one church, about 237 houfes, and 1400 inhabitants : the 
town is fituated on the Delme, from which it receives its 
name. The county belongs to the kings of Denmark, 
as counts of Oldenburg, and pays eighty florins for a 
Roman month : (even miles louth-weft of Bremen. Lat. 
53. 2. N. Ion. 25. 57. E. F'erro. 
DEL'MONT, or Delemont, or Talsperg, a town 
of Germany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and bi- 
fnopric of Bale, fituated on the fide of a hill, near the 
conflux of the Biers and the Some. It contains an epif- 
copal palace, two convents, and about 800 inhabitants : 
fixteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bale, and twelve ealt- 
fouth-eaft of Porrentrui. 
DE'LOS, an ifland of the Archipelago, one of the 
Cyclades, very famous in ancient hiftory. Originally 
it is laid to have been a floating ifland, but afterwards 
it became fixed and immoveable. It was held facred on 
account of its being the birth-place of Apollo and Diana. 
Anciently this ifland was governed by its own kings. 
Virgil mentions a prince, Anius, reigning here in the 
time of the Trojan war. He was, according to* that 
poet, both king and high-prieft of Apollo, and enter¬ 
tained 2®neas with great kindnefs. The Perfians allowed 
the Delians to enjoy their ancient liberties, after they 
had reduced the reft of the Grecian illands. In after 
ages, 
