Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-LIGHT'SOME-NESS, n.

Delightfulness; pleasantness in a high degree.

DE-LIN'E-A-MENT, n. [Infra.]

Representation by delineation. – Selden.

DE-LIN'E-ATE, v.t. [L. delineo; de and lineo, from linea, a line.]

1. To draw the lines which exhibit the form of a thing; to mark out with lines; to make a draught; to sketch or design; as, to delineate the form of the earth, or a diagram.
2. To paint; to represent in a picture; to draw a likeness of; as, to delineate Nestor like Adonis, or Time with Absalom's head. – Brown.
3. Figuratively, to describe; to represent to the mind or understanding; to exhibit a likeness in words; as, to delineate the character of Newton, or the virtue of Aristides.

DE-LIN'E-A-TED, pp.

Drawn; marked with lines exhibiting the form or figure; sketched; designed; painted; described.

DE-LIN'E-A-TING, ppr.

Drawing the form; sketching; painting; describing.

DE-LIN-E-A'TION, n. [L. delineatio.]

1. First draught of a thing; outline; representation of a form or figure by lines; sketch; design.
2. Representation in words; description; as, the delineation of a character.

DE-LIN'E-A-TOR, n.

One who delineates.

DE-LIN'E-A-TO-RY, a.

Describing; drawing the outline. – Scott's Essays.

DE-LIN'E-A-TURE, n.

Delineation. [Not in use.]

DE-LIN'I-MENT, n. [L. delinimentum.]

Mitigation. [Not used.]

DE-LIN'QUEN-CY, n. [L. delinquo, to fail or omit duty; de and linquo, to leave.]

Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; and positively, an offense; a crime. It is particularly, but not exclusively applied to neglect of duty in officers of public trust.

DE-LIN'QUENT, a.

Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.

DE-LIN'QUENT, n.

One who fails to perform his duty, particularly a public officer who neglects his duty; an offender; one who commits a fault or crime. A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed. – Ayliffe.

DE-LIN'QUENT-LY, adv.

So as to fail in duty.

DEL'I-QUATE, v.t. [or i.; L. deliqueo, to melt.]

To melt or be dissolved. [See Deliquesce and Deliquiate.]

DEL'-I-QUA-TED, pp.

Melted; dissolved.

DEL-I-QUA'TION, n.

A melting. [See Deliquescence and Deliquiation.]

DEL-I-QUESCE', v.i. [deliques'; L. deliquesco, to melt; de and liquesco, from liqueo, to melt or become soft. See Liquid.]

To melt gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air; as, certain salts, acids and alkalies.

DEL-I-QUES'CENCE, n.

Spontaneous liquefaction in the air; a gradual melting or becoming liquid by absorption of water from the atmosphere. – Fourcroy.

DEL-I-QUES'CENT, a.

Liquefying in the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts. – Fourcroy.

DE-LIQ'UI-ATE, v.i. [See Deliquate.]

To melt and become liquid by imbibing water from the air. [See Deliquesce.] – Fourcroy.

DE-LIQ-UI-A'TION, n.

A melting by attracting water from the air.

DE-LIQ'UI-UM, n. [L.]

1. In chimistry, a melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place. – Encyc.
2. A liquid state; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. – Fourcroy.
3. In medicine, a swooning or fainting; called also syncope. – Encyc. Coxe.

DE-LI'RA-CY, n.

Delirium. – Sancroft.

DE-LIR'A-MENT, a.

A wandering of the mind; foolish fancy. [Little used.]