Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-JEU'NER, n. [Fr.]

A breakfast, or morning meal.

DE-JURE, a. [L.]

Of right. [See De facto.]

DE-LAC-ER-A'TION, n. [L. delacero.]

A tearing in pieces. [Not used.]

DE-LAC-RY-MA'TION, n. [L. delacrymatio; de and lacrymatio, a weeping.]

A preternatural discharge of watery humors from the eyes; waterishness of the eyes. – Dict.

DE-LAC-TA'TION, n. [L. delactatio.]

A weaning. [Not used.] – Dict.

DE-LAP-SA'TION, n.

A falling down. – Ray.

DE-LAPSE', v.i. [delaps'; L. delabor, delapsus; de and labor, to slide.]

To fall or slide down.

DE-LAPS'ED, pp.

Fallen down.

DE-LAP'SION, n.

A falling down of the uterus, anus, &c.

DE-LATE', v.t. [L. delatus; de and latus, part. of fero, to bear.]

1. To carry; to convey. [Little used.] – Bacon.
2. To accuse; to inform against; that is, to bear a charge against. – B. Jonson.

DE-LA'TION, n.

1. Carriage; conveyance; as, the delation of sound. [Little used.] – Bacon.
2. Accusation; act of charging with a crime; a term of the civil law.

DE-LA'TOR, n. [L.]

An accuser; an informer. – Sandys.

DE-LAY', n.

1. A lingering; stay; stop.
2. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintif.
3. Hinderance for a time.

DE-LAY', v.i.

To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time. There are certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of ideas, beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. – Locke.

DE-LAY', v.t. [Fr. delai, delay; Sp. dilatar; Port, id., to delay; It. dilata, delay; dilature, to dilate, to spread; from L. dilatus, differo. We see that delay is from spreading, extending. See Dilate.]

1. To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer. My lord delayeth his coming. – Matt. xxiv.
2. To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delayed by bad roads. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed / The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. – Milton.
3. To allay. [Not in use, nor proper.] – Spenser.

DE-LAY'ED, pp.

Deferred; detained; hindered for a time; retarded.

DE-LAY'ER, n.

One who defers; one who lingers.

DE-LAY'ING, ppr.

Putting off; deferring; procrastinating; retarding; detaining.

DE-LAY'MENT, n.

Hinderance. – Gower.

DEL-CRED'ER-E, n.

A guaranty given by fators, binding them to warrant the solvency of the purchasers of goods, which they sell on credit. This is done for a premium.

DE'LE, v.t. [L. imperative of deleo.]

Blot out; erase.

DEL'E-BLE, a. [L. delebilis.]

That can be blotted out. – More.

DE-LEC'TA-BLE, a. [L. delectabilis, from delector, to delight. See Delight.]

Delightful; highly pleasing; that gives great joy or pleasure; as, a delectable garden. – Milton.

DE-LEC'TA-BLE-NESS, n.

Delightfulness. – Barret.

DE-LEC'TA-BLY, adv.

Delightfully.