Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DE-LIGHT'SOME-NESS – DE-LIR'A-MENT
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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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.]
- First draught of a thing; outline; representation of a form or figure by lines; sketch; design.
- 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.]
- In chimistry, a melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place. – Encyc.
- A liquid state; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. – Fourcroy.
- 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.]