Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

DEL'I-RATE, v.i. [L. deliro.]

To rave, as a madman. [Not in use.]

DEL-I-RA'TION, n.

A raving in madness. [Not in use.]

DEL-I-RA'TION, n. [L. deliratio.]

A wandering of mind; delirium. Ed. Rev.

DE-LIR'I-OUS, a. [L. delirus. See Delirium.]

Roving in mind; light-headed; disordered in intellect; having ideas that are wild, irregular, and unconnected.

DE-LIR'I-OUS-LY, adv.

In a delirious manner.

DE-LIR'I-OUS-NESS, n.

The state of being delirious; delirium. Johnson.

DE-LIR'I-UM, n. [L. from deliro, to wander in mind, to rave; de and liro, to make balks in plowing, that is, to err, wander, miss.]

A state in which the ideas of a person are wild, irregular, and unconnected, or do not correspond with the truths or with external objects; a roving or wandering of the mind; disorder of the intellect. Fevers often produce delirium. An alienation of mind connected with fever. Cyc. Symptomatic derangement, or that which is dependent on some other disease, in distinction from idiopathic derangement or mania.

DE-LIR'I-UM-TRE'MENS, n.

A disease of the brain, induced by the excessive use of intoxicating liquors.

DEL-I-TES'CENCE, n. [L. delitescentia; de and lateo.]

Retirement; obscurity. Johnson.

DE-LIT'I-GATE, v.i. [L. delitigo.]

To chide, or contend in words. [Not in use.]