Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-LIT-I-GA'TION, n.

A chiding; a brawl. [Not in use.]

DE-LIVER, a. [L. liber.]

Free; nimble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

DE-LIV'ER, v.t. [Fr. delivrer; de and livrer, to deliver; Sp. librar; Port. livrar; L. liber, free, disengaged; delibro, to free, to peel; Arm. delivra; See Liberal, Library, Librate.]

1. To free; to release, as from restraint; to set at liberty; as, to deliver one from captivity.
2. To rescue, or save. Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked. Ps. lxxi.
3. To give or transfer; to put into another's hand or power; to commit; to pass from one to another. Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. So we say, to deliver goods to a carrier; to deliver a letter; to deliver possession of an estate.
4. To surrender; to yield; to give up; to resign; as, to deliver a fortress to an enemy. It is often followed by up; as, to deliver up the city; to deliver up stolen goods. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.
5. To disburden of a child.
6. To utter; to pronounce; to speak; to send forth in words; as, to deliver a sermon, an address, or an oration.
7. To exert in motion. [Not in use.] To deliver to the wind, to cast away; to reject. To deliver over, to transfer; to give or pass from one to another; as, to deliver over goods to another. #2. To surrender or resign; to put into another's power; to commit t o the discretion of; to abandon to. Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies. Ps. xxvii. To deliver up, to give up; to surrender.

DE-LIV'ER-A-BLE, a.

That may be or is to be delivered. A bill of lading may state that the goods are deliverable to a particular person therein named. [Mercantile usage.] Amer. Review.

DE-LIV'ER-ANCE, n. [Fr. delivrance.]

1. Release from captivity, slavery, oppression or any restraint. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv.
2. Rescue from danger or any evil. God sent me to save your lives by a great deliverance. Gen. xiv.
3. The act of bringing forth children. Bacon.
4. The act of giving or transferring from one to another.
5. The act of speaking or pronouncing; utterance. Shak. [In the three last senses, Delivery is now used.]
6. Acquittal of a prisoner, by the verdict of a jury. God send you a good deliverance

DE-LIV'ER-ED, pp.

Freed; released; transferred or transmitted; passed from one to another; committed; yielded; surrendered; rescued; uttered; pronounced.

DE-LIV'ER-ER, n.

1. One who delivers; one who releases or rescues; a preserver. The Lord raised up a deliverer to Israel. Judges iii.
2. One who relates, or communicates. Boyle.

DE-LIV'ER-ING, ppr.

Releasing; setting free; rescuing; saving; surrendering; giving over; yielding; resigning.

DE-LIV'ER-Y, n.

1. The act of delivering.
2. Release; rescue; as from slavery, restraint, oppression or danger.
3. Surrender; a giving up.
4. A giving or passing from one to another; as, the delivery of goods, or of a deed.
5. Utterance; pronunciation; or manner of speaking. He has a good delivery. I was charmed with his graceful delivery.
6. Childbirth. Is. xxvi.
7. Free motion or use of the limbs. [Obs.] Sidney. Wotton.

DELL, n. [Qu. dale, or W. dell, a cleft or rift; or is it contracted from Sax. degle?]

A pit, or a hollow place; a cavity or narrow opening. Spenser. Milton.

DELPH, n. [See DELF, No. 2.]

DELPH'I-AN, or DELPHIC, a. [from Delphi, a town of Phocis in Greece.]

Relating to Delphi, and to the celebrated oracle of that place.

DELPH'INE, a. [L. delphinus.]

1. Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
2. Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the delphine edition of the classics.

DEL-PHIN'I-NA, or DEL-PHIN'I-A, n. [or DEL-PHI'NA, or DELPH'I-A, or DELPH'IN-INE, or DELPH'INE.]

A vegetable alkaloid discovered in the Delphinium staphysagria. Its taste is bitter and acrid. When heated it melts, but on cooling becomes hard and brittle like resin. Ure. Brande.

DELPH'IN-ITE, n.

A mineral called also pistacite and epidote. Ure.

DEL'TA, n.

The Greek letter Δ. A tract of alluvial land in the form of that letter, or triangular. It is particularly applied to such a tract of land in Egypt, formed by two main branches of the Nile, and the Mediterranean sea; but the word is applied to any tract of land of a similar figure and formation.

DEL'TOID, a. [Gr. δελτα, the letter Δ, and ειδος, form.]

1. Resembling the Greek Δ, triangular; an epithet applied to a muscle of the shoulder which moves the arm forward, upward, and backward. Coxe.
2. In botany, shaped somewhat like a delta or rhomb, having four angles, of which the lateral ones are less distant from the base than the others; as, a deltoid leaf. Linnæus. Martyn. Trowel-shaped, having three angles, of which the terminal one is much further from the base than the lateral ones. Smith.

DE-LUD'A-BLE, a. [See Delude.]

That may be deluded or deceived; liable to be imposed on. Brown.

DE-LUDE', v.t. [L. deludo; de and ludo, to play, to mock; Ch. and Heb. לוץ. Class Ls, No. 3, 5, 30, 46.]

1. To deceive; to impose on; to lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment; to beguile. Cheat is generally applied to deception in bargains; delude, to deception in opinion. An artful man deludes his followers. We are often deluded by false appearances.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.

DE-LUD'ED, pp.

Deceived; misled; led into error.

DE-LUD'ER, n.

One who deceives; a deceiver; an impostor; one who holds out false pretenses.

DE-LUD'ING, n.

The act of deceiving; falsehood. Prideaux.

DE-LUD'ING, ppr.

Deceiving; leading astray; misleading the opinion or judgment.

DEL'UGE, n. [Fr. deluge; Arm. diluich; Sp. diluvio; It. id.; L. diluvies, diluvium, from diluo, diluvio; di and luo, lavo, to wash. If deluge and diluvium are the same word, of which there can be little doubt, the fact proves that luo, lavo, is contracted or changed from lugo, and that the primitive word was lugo; and it is certain that the radix of fluo is flugo. See Flow.]

1. Any overflowing of water; an inundation; a flood; a swell of water over the natural banks of a river or shore of the ocean, spreading over the adjacent land. But appropriately, the great flood or overflowing of the earth by water, in the days of Noah; according to the common chronology, Anno Mundi, 1656. Gen. vi.
2. A sweeping or overwhelming calamity.

DEL'UGE, v.t.

1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to drown. The waters deluged the earth and destroyed the old world.
2. To overwhelm; to cover with any flowing or moving, spreading body. The Northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies.
3. To overwhelm; to cause to sink under the weight of a general or spreading calamity; as, the land is deluged with corruption.