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Deglutition

DEGLUTITION, noun [Latin To swallow.]

1. The act of swallowing; as, deglutition is difficult.

2. The power of swallowing; as, deglutition is lost.

Degradation

DEGRADATION, noun

1. A reducing in rank; the act of depriving one of a degree of honor, of dignity, or of rank; also, deposition; removal or dismission from office; as the degradation of a peer, of a knight, or of a bishop, in England.

2. The state of being reduced from an elevated or more honorable station, to one that is low in fact or in estimation; baseness; degeneracy.

Deplorable is the degradation of our nature.

3. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy or value.

4. In painting, a lessening and obscuring of the appearance of distant objects in a landscape, that they may appear as they would do to an eye placed at a distance.

5. Diminution; reduction of altitude or magnitude.

Degrade

DEGRADE, verb transitive [Latin A step, a degree.]

1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to deprive one of any office or dignity, by which he loses rank in society; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, an archbishop or a general officer.

2. To reduce in estimation; to lessen the value of ; to lower; to sink. Vice degrades a man in the view of others; often in his own view. Drunkenness degrades a man to the level of a beast.

3. To reduce in altitude or magnitude.

Although the ridge is still there, the ridge itself has been degraded.

Degraded

DEGRADED, participle passive Reduced in rank; deprived of an office or dignity; lowered; sunk; reduced in estimation or value.

Degradement

DEGRADEMENT, noun Deprivation of rank or office.

Degrading

DEGRADING, participle present tense

1. Reducing in rank; depriving of honors or offices; reducing in value or estimation; lowering.

2. adjective Dishonoring; disgracing the character; as degrading obsequiousness.

The inordinate love of money and of fame are base and degrading passions.

Degradingly

DEGRADINGLY, adverb In a degrading manner, or in a way to depreciate.

Degree

DEGREE, noun

1. A step; a distinct portion of space of indefinite extent; a space in progression; as, the army gained the hill by degrees; a balloon rises or descends by slow degrees; and figuratively, we advance in knowledge by slow degrees. Men are yet in the first degree of improvement. It should be their aim to attain to the furthest degree or the highest degree There are degrees of vice and virtue.

2. A step or portion of progression, in elevation, quality, dignity or rank; as a man of great degree

We speak of men of high degree or of low degree; of superior or inferior degree It is supposed there are different degrees or orders of angels.

They purchase to themselves a good degree 1 Timothy 3:13.

3. In genealogy, a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; as a relation in the third or fourth degree

4. Measure; extent. The light is intense to a degree that is intolerable. We suffer an extreme degree of heat or cold.

5. In geometry, a division of a circle, including a three hundred and sixtieth part of its circumference. Hence a degree of latitude is the 360th part of the earths surface north or south of the equator, and a degree of longitude, the same part of the surface east or west of any given meridian.

6. In music, an interval of sound, marked by a line on the scale.

7. In arithmetic, a degree consists of three figures; thus, 270, 360, compose two degrees.

8. A division, space or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument; as on a thermometer, or barometer.

9. In colleges and universities, a mark of distinction conferred on students, as a testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences; giving them a kind of rank, and entitling them to certain privileges. This is usually evidenced by a diploma. Degrees are conferred pro meritis on the alumni of a college; or they are honorary tokens of respect, conferred on strangers of distinguished reputation. The first degree is that of Bachelor of Arts; the second, that of Master of Arts. Honorary degrees are those of Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, etc. Physicians also receive the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

By degrees, step by step; gradually; by little and little; by moderate advances. Frequent drinking forms by degrees a confirmed habit of intemperance.

Degustation

DEGUSTATION, noun A tasting.

Dehiscence

DEHISCENCE, noun [Latin To gape.] A gaping. In botany, the opening of capsules; the season when capsules open.

Dehiscent

DEHISCENT, adjective Opening, as the capsule of a plant.

Dehort

DEHORT, verb transitive [Latin To dissuade; to advise.] To dissuade; to advise to the contrary; to counsel not to do nor to undertake.

Dehortation

DEHORTATION, noun Dissuasion; advice or counsel against something.

Dehortatory

DEHORTATORY, adjective Dissuading; belonging to dissuasion

Dehorter

DEHORTER, noun A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

Dehorting

DEHORTING, participle present tense Dissuading.

Deicide

DEICIDE, noun [Latin God and to slay.]

1. The act of putting to death Jesus Christ, our Savior.

2. One concerned in putting Christ to death.

Deific

DEIFIC, adjective [Latin To make.]

1. Divine; pertaining to the gods.

2. Making divine.

Deification

DEIFICATION, noun The act of deifying; the act of exalting to the rank of, or enrolling among the heathen deities.

Deified

DEIFIED, participle passive Exalted or ranked among the gods; regarded or praised as divine.

Deifier

DEIFIER, noun One that deifies.

Deiform

DEIFORM, adjective [Latin A god, and form.] Like a god; of a godlike form.

These souls exhibit a deiform power.

Deify

DEIFY, verb transitive [Latin A god, and to make.]

1. To make a god; to exalt to the rank of a heathen deity; to enroll among the deities; as, Julius Cesar was deified.

2. To exalt into an object of worship; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as a covetous man deifies his treasures.

3. To exalt to a deity in estimation; to reverence or praise as a deity.

The pope was formerly extolled and deified by his votaries.

Deifying

DEIFYING, participle present tense Exalting to the rank of a deity; treating as divine.

Deign

DEIGN, verb intransitive Dane. To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend.

O deign to visit our foraken seats.

DEIGN, verb transitive dane. To grant or allow; to condescend to give to.

Nor would we deign him burial of his men.

Deigning

DEIGNING, participle present tense Daning. Vouchsafing; thinking worthy.

Deintgrate

DEINTGRATE, verb transitive To disintegrate.

Deiparous

DEIPAROUS, adjective Bearing or bringing forth a god; an epithet applied the Virgin Mary.

Deipnosophist

DEIPNOSOPHIST, noun [Gr. A feast; a sophist.] One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who were famous for their learned conversation at meals.

Deism

DEISM, noun [Latin God.] The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of religious opinions of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation: or deism is the belief in natural religion only, or those truths, in doctrine and practice, which man is to discover by the light of reason, independent and exclusive of any revelation from God. Hence deism implies infidelity or a disbelief in the divine origin of the scriptures.

The view which the rising greatness of our country presents to my eyes, is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism which, with me, is but another name for vice and depravity. P. Henry, Wirys Sketches.

Deist

DEIST, noun One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion, but follows the light of nature and reason, as his only guides in doctrine and practice; a freethinker.

Deistic

DEISTIC,

DEISTICAL, adjective Pertaining to deism or to deists; embracing deism, as a deistical writer; or containing deism, as a deistical book.

Deistical

DEISTICAL, a. Pertaining to deism or to deists; embracing deism, as a deistical writer; or containing deism, as a deistical book.

Deity

DEITY, noun

1. Godhead; divinity; the nature and essence of the Supreme Being; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is manifest in his works.

2. God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit.

3. A fabulous god or goddess; a superior being supposed, by heathen nations, to exist, and to preside over particular departments of nature; as Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Diana, etc.

4. The supposed divinity or divine qualities of a pagan god.

Deject

DEJECT, verb transitive [Latin To throw.]

1. To cast down; usually, to cast down the countenance; to cause to fall with grief; to make to look sad or grieved, or to express discouragement.

But gloomy were his eyes, dejected was his face.

2. To depress the spirits; to sink; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind.

DEJECT, adjective Cast down; low-spirited.

Dejected

DEJECTED, participle passive Cast down; depressed; grieved; discouraged.

Dejectedly

DEJECTEDLY, adverb In a dejected manner; sadly; heavily.

Dejectedness

DEJECTEDNESS, noun The state being cast down; lowness of spirits.

Dejecting

DEJECTING, participle present tense Casting down; depressing; dispiriting.

Dejection

DEJECTION, noun

1. A casting down; depression of mind; melancholy; lowness of spirits, occasioned by grief or misfortune.

2. Weakness; as dejection of appetite.

3. The act of voiding the excrements; or the matter ejected.

Dejectly

DEJECTLY, adverb In a downcast manner.

Dejectory

DEJECTORY, adjective Having power or tending to cast down, or to promote evacuations by stool.

Dejecture

DEJECTURE, noun That which is ejected; excrements.

Delacrymation

DELACRYMATION, noun [Latin A weeping.] A preternatural discharge of watery humors from the eyes; waterishness of the eyes.

Delactable

DELACTABLE, adjective [Latin To delight.] Delightful; highly pleasing; that gives great joy or pleasure; as a delectable garden.

Delactation

DELACTATION, noun A weaning.

Delapsation

DELAPSATION, noun A falling down.

Delapse

DELAPSE, verb intransitive [Latin To slide. ] To fall or slide down.

Delapsed

DELAPSED, participle passive Fallen down.

Delapsion

DELAPSION, noun A falling down of the uterus, anus, etc.

Delate

DELATE, verb transitive [Latin To bear.]

1. To carry; to convey.

2. To accuse; to inform against; that is, to bear a charge against.

Delation

DELATION, noun

1. Carriage; conveyance; as the delation of sound.

2. To accuse; to inform against; that is, to bear a charge against.

Delator

DELATOR, noun An accuser; an informer.

Delay

DELAY, verb transitive

1. To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer.

My lord delayeth his coming. Matthew 14:1.

2. To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delated by bad roads.

Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed

The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.

3. To allay.

DELAY, verb intransitive 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.

DELAY, noun

1. A lingering; stay; stop.

2. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintiff.

3. Hinderance for a time.

Delayed

DELAYED, participle passive Deferred; detained; hindered for a time; retarded.

Delayer

DELAYER, noun One who defers; one who lingers.

Delaying

DELAYING, participle present tense Putting off; deferring; procrastinating; retarding; detaining.

Delayment

DELAYMENT, noun Hinderance.

Dele

DELE, verb transitive Blot out; erase.

Deleble

DELEBLE, adjective That can be blotted out.

Delectableness

DELECTABLENESS, noun Delightfulness.

Delectably

DELECTABLY, adverb Delightfully.

Delectation

DELECTATION, noun Great pleasure; delight.

Delegacy

DELEGACY, noun A number of persons delegated.

Delegate

DELEGATE, verb transitive [Latin To send.]

1. To send away; appropriately, to send on an embassy; to send with power to transact business, as a representative. The President delegated three commissioners to the court of St. Cloud.

2. To entrust; to commit; to deliver to anothers care and exercise; as, to delegate authority or power to an envoy, representative or judge.

DELEGATE, noun

1. A person appointed and sent by another with powers to transact business as his representative; a deputy; a commissioner; a vicar. In the United States, a person elected or appointed to represent a state or a district, in the Congress, or in a Convention for forming or altering a constitution.

2. In Great Britain, a commissioner appointed by the king, under the great seal, to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical court. Hence the Court of Delegates is the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. It is used also for the court of appeals from that of the admiralty.

3. A layman appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council.

DELEGATE, adjective Deputed; sent to act for or represent another; as a delegate judge.

Delegated

DELEGATED, participle passive Deputed; sent with a trust or commission to act for another; appointed a judge; committed, as authority.

Delegating

DELEGATING, participle present tense Deputing; sending with a commission to act for another; appointing; committing; entrusting.

Delegation

DELEGATION, noun

1. A sending away; the act of putting in commission, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate.

The duties of religion cannot be performed by delegation

2. Th persons deputed to act for another, or for others. Thus, the representatives of Massachusetts in Congress are called the delegation or whole delegation

3. In the civil law, the assignment of a debt to another, as when a debtor appoints his debtor to answer to the creditor in his place.

Delete

DELETE, verb transitive To blot out.

Deleterious

DELETERIOUS, adjective [Latin To blot out or destroy.]

1. Having the quality of destroying, or extinguishing life; destructive; poisonous; as a deleterious plant or quality.

2. Injurious; pernicious.

Deletery

DELETERY, adjective Destructive; poisonous.

Deletion

DELETION, noun [Latin To blot out.]

1. The act of blotting out or erasing.

2. Destruction.

Deletory

DELETORY, noun That which blots out.

Delf

DELF, noun

1. A mine; a quarry; a pit dug.

2. Earthern ware, covered with enamel or white glazing in imitation of China ware or porcelain, made at Delft in Holland; properly, Delft-ware.

Delibate

DELIBATE, verb transitive [Latin To taste.] To taste; to take a sip.

Delibation

DELIBATION, noun A taste; an essay.

Deliberate

DELIBERATE, verb intransitive [Latin To weigh.] To weigh in the mind; to consider and examine the reasons for and against a measure; to estimate the weight or force of arguments, or the probable consequences of a measure, in order to a choice or decision; to pause and consider. A wise prince will deliberate before he wages war.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

DELIBERATE, verb transitive To balance in the mind; to weigh; to consider.

DELIBERATE, adjective

1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applies to persons; as a deliberate judge or counselor.

2. Formed with deliberation; well advised or considered; not sudden or rash; as a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure, or result.

3. Slow; as a deliberate death or echo.

Deliberately

DELIBERATELY, adverb With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; not hastily or rashly; slowly. This purpose was deliberately formed.

Deliberateness

DELIBERATENESS, noun Calm consideration; circumspection; due attention to the arguments for and against a measure; caution.

Deliberation

DELIBERATION,

1. The act of deliberating; the act of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; consideration. We say, a measure has been taken with deliberation

2. Mutual discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as the deliberations of a legislative body or council.

Deliberative

DELIBERATIVE, adjective

1. Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by mutual discussion and examination; as, the legislature is a deliberative body.

2. Having a right or power to deliberate or discuss.

In councils, the bishops have a deliberative voice.

3. Apt or disposed to consider.

DELIBERATIVE, noun A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

Deliberatively

DELIBERATIVELY, adverb By deliberation.

Delicacy

DELICACY, noun In a general sense, that which delights or pleases. Hence,

1. Fineness of texture; smoothness; softness; tenderness; as the delicacy of the skin; and nearly in the same sense, applicable to food; as the delicacy of flesh, meat or vegetables. Hence,

2. Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste.

3. Elegant or feminine beauty; as delicacy of form.

4. Nicety; minute accuracy; as the delicacy of coloring in painting.

5. Neatness in dress; elegance proceeding from a nice selection and adjustment of the several parts of dress.

6. Softness of manners; civility or politemess proceeding from a nice observance of propriety, and a desire to please; as delicacy of behavior.

7. Indulgence; gentle treatment; as delicacy of education.

8. Tenderness; scrupulousness; the quality manifested in nice attention to right, and care to avoid wrong, or offense.

9. Acute or nice perception of what is pleasing to the sense of tasting; hence figuratively, a nice perception of beauty and deformity, or the faculty of such nice perception.

DELICACY of taste tends to invigorate the social affections, and moderate those that are selfish.

10. That which delights the senses, particularly the taste; applied to eatables; as, the peach is a great delicacy

11. Tenderness of constitution; weakness; that quality or state of the animal body which renders it very impressible to injury; as delicacy of constitution or frame.

12. Smallness; fineness; slenderness; tenuity; as the delicacy of a thread, or fiber.

13. Tenderness; nice susceptibility of impression; as delicacy of feeling.

Delicate

DELICATE, adjective [Latin Connected with delight; to delight.]

1. Of a fine texture; fine; soft; smooth; clear, or fair; as a delicate skin.

2. Nice; pleasing to the taste; of an agreeable flavor; as delicate food; a delicate dish.

3. Nice in perception of what is agreeable; dainty; as a delicate taste; and figuratively, nice and discriminating in beauty and deformity.

4. Nice; accurate; fine; soft to the eye; as a delicate color.

5. Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by condescension and attention to the wishes and feelings of others; as delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.

6. Pleasing to the senses; as a delicate flavor.

7. Fine; slender; minute; as a delicate thread.

8. That cannot be handled without injury or danger; that must be touched with care; as a delicate point or topic; a delicate question.

9. Composed of fine threads, or nicely interwoven; as a delicate texture; hence, soft and smooth to the touch; as delicate silk.

10. Tender; effeminate; not able to endure hardship; very impressible to injury; as a delicate frame or constitution.

11. Feeble; not sound or robust; as delicate health.

DELICATE, noun Any thing nice; a nicety.

Delicately

DELICATELY, adverb

1. In a delicate manner; with nice regard to propriety and the feelings of others.

2. Daintily; luxuriously.

They that live delicately are in kings courts. Luke 7:25.

3. With soft elegance; as an expression delicately turned.

4. Tenderly; with indulgence in ease, elegance and luxury. Proverbs 29:21.

Delicateness

DELICATENESS, noun The state of being delicate; tenderness; softness; effeminacy. Deuteronomy 28:56.

Delicious

DELICIOUS, adjective

1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.

2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.

Deliciously

DELICIOUSLY, adverb In a delicious manner; in a manner to please the taste or gratify the mind; sweetly; pleasantly; delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

Deliciousness

DELICIOUSNESS, noun

1. The quality of being delicious, or very grateful to the taste or mind; as the deliciousness of a repast.

2. Delight; great pleasure.

Deligation

DELIGATION, noun [Latin To bind.] In surgery, a binding up; a bandaging.

Delight

DELIGHT, noun

1. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.

His delight is in the law of the Lord. Psalms 1:2.

2. That which gives great pleasure; that which affords delight

Titus was the delight of human kind.

I was daily his delight Proverbs 8:30.

DELIGHT is a more permanent pleasure than joy, and not dependent on sudden excitement.

DELIGHT, verb transitive

1. To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear; the good conduct of children, and especially their piety, delights their parents.

I will delight myself in thy statutes. Psalms 1:219.

2. To receive great pleasure in.

I delight to do thy will. Psalms 40:8.

DELIGHT, verb intransitive To have or take great pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; followed by in.

I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Romans 7:22.

Delighted

DELIGHTED, participle passive

1. Greatly pleased; rejoiced; followed by with.

That ye may be delighted with the abundance of her glory. Isaiah 66:11.

2. adjective Full of delight.

Delighter

DELIGHTER, noun One who takes delight.

Delightful

DELIGHTFUL, adjective Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction; as a delightful thought; a delightful prospect.

Delightfully

DELIGHTFULLY, adverb

1. In a manner to receive great pleasure; very agreeable; as, we were delightfully employed, or entertained.

2. In a delightful manner; charmingly; in a manner to afford great pleasure; as, the lady sings and plays delightfully

Delightfulness

DELIGHTFULNESS, noun

1. The quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure; as the delightfulness of a prospect, or of scenery.

2. Great pleasure; delight.

Delightless

DELIGHTLESS, adjective Affording no pleasure or delight.

Delightsome

DELIGHTSOME, adjective Very pleasing; delightful.

Delightsomely

DELIGHTSOMELY, adverb Very pleasantly; in a delightful manner.

Delightsomeness

DELIGHTSOMENESS, noun Delightfulness; pleasantness in a high degree.

Delineament

DELINEAMENT, noun Representation by delineation.

Delineate

DELINEATE, verb transitive [Latin 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 picture; to draw a likeness of; as, to delineate Nestor like Adonis, or time with Absaloms head.

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.

Delineated

DELINEATED, participle passive Drawn; marked with lines exhibiting the form or figure; sketched; designed; painted; described.

Delineating

DELINEATING, participle present tense Drawing the form; sketching; painting; describing.

Delineation

DELINEATION, noun

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.

Delineature

DELINEATURE, noun Delineation.

Deliniment

DELINIMENT, noun Mitigation.

Delinquency

DELINQUENCY, noun [Latin To fail or omit duty; 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.

Delinquent

DELINQUENT, adjective Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.

DELINQUENT, noun 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.

Deliquate

DELIQUATE, verb transitive or I. [Latin To melt.] To melt or be dissolved.

Deliquation

DELIQUATION, noun A melting.

Deliquesce

DELIQUESCE, verb intransitive [Latin To melt; to melt or become soft.] To melt gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air; as certain salts, acids and alkalies.

Deliquescence

DELIQUESCENCE, noun Spontaneous liquefaction in the air; a gradual melting or becoming liquid by absorption of water from the atmosphere.

Deliquescent

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

Deliquiate

DELIQUIATE, verb intransitive To melt and become liquid by imbibing water from the air.

Deliquiation

DELIQUIATION, noun A melting by attracting water from the air.

Deliquium

DELIQUIUM, noun

1. In chimistry, a melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place.

2. A liquid state; as, a salt falls into a deliquium

3. In medicine, a swooning or fainting; called also syncope.

Delirament

DELIRAMENT, noun A wandering of the mind; foolish fancy.

Delirious

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

Deliriousness

DELIRIOUSNESS, noun The state of being delirious; delirium.

Delirium

DELIRIUM, noun [Latin To wander in mind, to rave; 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 truth 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.

Symptomatic derangement, or that which is dependent on some other disease, in distinction from idiopathic derrangement or mania.

Delitescence

DELITESCENCE, noun Retirement; obscurity.

Deliver

DELIVER, verb transitive [Latin Free, disengaged; to free, to peel.]

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. Psalms 71:4.

3. To give, or transfer; to put into anothers hand or power; to commit; to pass from one to another.

Thou shalt deliver Pharoahs cup into his hand. Genesis 40:11

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.

Th exalted mind

All sense of woe delivers to the wind.

5. To disbuden 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.

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 anothers power; to commit to the discretion of; to abandon to.

DELIVER me not over to the will of my enemies. Psalms 27:12.

To deliver up, to give up; to surrender.

DELIVER, adjective Free; nimble.

Deliverable

DELIVERABLE, adjective 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.

Deliverance

DELIVERANCE, noun

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 4:18.

2. Rescue from danger or any evil.

God sent me to save your lives by a great deliverance Genesis 45:7.

3. The act of bringing forth children.

4. The act of giving or transferring from one to another.

5. The act of speaking or pronouncing; utterance. [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

Delivered

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

Deliverer

DELIVERER, noun

1. One who delivers; one who releases or rescues; a preserver.

The Lord raised up a deliverer to Israel. Judges 3:9.

2. One who relates, or communicates.

Delivering

DELIVERING, participle present tense Releasing; setting free; rescuing; saving; surrendering; giving over; yielding; resigning.

Delivery

DELIVERY, noun

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. Isaiah 26:17.

7. Free motion or use of the limbs.

Dell

DELL, noun A pit, or a hollow place; a cavity or narrow opening.

Delph

DELPH, [See Delf. No. 2.]

Delphia

DELPHIA or DELPHINIA, noun A vegetable alkali lately discovered in the Delphinium staphysagria. It is crystaline when wet, but it becomes opake when exposed to air. Its taste is bitter and acrid. When heated it melts, but on cooling becomes hard and brittle like resin.

Delphian

DELPHIAN or DELPHIC, adjective Relating to Delphi, and to the celebrated oracle of that place.

Delphine

DELPHINE, adjective

1. Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

2. Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as the delphine edition of the classics.

Delphinite

DELPHINITE, noun A mineral called also pistacite and epidote.

Deltoid

DELTOID, noun

1. Triangular; an epithet applied to a muscle of the shoulder which moves the arm forwards, upwards and backwards.

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.

Trowel-shaped, having three angles, of which the terminal one is much further from the base than the lateral ones.

Deludable

DELUDABLE, adjective That may be deluded or deceived; liable to be imposed on.

Delude

DELUDE, verb transitive

1. To deceive; to impose on; to lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgement; 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.

Deluded

DELUDED, participle passive Deceived; misled; led into error.

Deluder

DELUDER, noun One who deceives; a deceiver; an imposter; one who holds out false pretenses.

Deluding

DELUDING, participle present tense Deceiving; leading astray; misleading the opinion or judgment.

DELUDING, noun The act of deceiving; falsehood.

Deluge

DELUGE, noun [Latin To wash.]

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. Genesis 6:1.

2. A sweeping or overwhelming calamity.

DELUGE, verb transitive

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.

Deluged

DELUGED, participle passive Overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.

Deluging

DELUGING, participle present tense Overflowing; inundating; overwhelming.

Delusion

DELUSION, noun S as z.

1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. We are all liable to the delusions of artifice.

2. False representation; illusion; error or mistake proceeding from false views.

And fondly mournd the dear delusion gone.

Delusive

DELUSIVE, adjective Apt to deceive; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; as delusive arts; delusive appearances.

Delusiveness

DELUSIVENESS, noun The quality of being delusive; tendency to deceive.

Delusory

DELUSORY, adjective Apt to deceive; deceptive.

Delve

DELVE, verb transitive Delv. [Latin A mole, perhaps the delver.]

1. To dig; to open the ground with a spade.

DELVE of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

2. To fathom; to sound; to penetrate.

I cannot delve him to the root.

DELVE, noun Delv. A place dug: a pit; a pitfall; a ditch; a den; a cave.

DELVE of coals, a quantity of fossil coals dug.

Delver

DELVER, noun One who digs, as with a spade.

Delving

DELVING, participle present tense Digging.

Demagogue

DEMAGOGUE, noun Demagog. [Gr. The populas, and to lead.]

1. A leader of the people; an orator who pleases the populace and influences them to adhere to him.

2. Any leader of the populace; any factious man who has great influence with the great body of people in a city or community.

Demain

DEMAIN, noun

1. A manor-house and the land adjacent or near, which a lord keeps in his own hands or immediate occupation, for the use of his family, as distinguished from his tenemental lands, distributed among his tenants, called book-land, or charter-land, and folk-land, or estates held in villenage, from which sprung copyhold estates.

2. Estate in lands.

Demand

DEMAND, verb transitive [Latin To command; to send; hence, to commit or entrust. To ask is to press or urge.]

1. To ask or call for, as one who has a claim or right to receive what is sought; to claim or seek as due by right. The creditor demands principal and interest of his debt. Here the claim is derived from law or justice.

2. To ask by authority; to require; to seek or claim an answer by virtue of a right or supposed right in the interrogator, derived from his office, station, power or authority.

The officers of the children of Israel-were beaten, and demanded, wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick. Exodus 5:14.

3. To require as necessary or useful; as, the execution of this work demands great industry and care.

4. To ask; to question; to inquire.

The soldiers also demanded of him, saying, what shall we do? Luke 3:14.

5. To ask or require, as a seller of goods; as, what price do you demand?

6. To sue for; to seek to obtain by legal process; as, the plaintiff, in his action, demands unreasonable damages.

In French, demander generally signifies simply to ask, request, or petition, when the answer or thing asked for, is a matter of grace or courtesy. But in English, demand is now seldom used in that sense, and rarely indeed can the French demander be rendered correctly in English by demand except in the case of the seller of goods, who demands, [asks, requires, ] a certain price for his wares. The common expression, a king sent to demand another kings daughter in marriage, is improper.

DEMAND, noun An asking for or claim made by virtue of a right or supposed right to the thing sought; an asking with authority; a challenging as due; as, the demand of the creditor was reasonable; the note is payable on demand

He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands, will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them.

2. The asking or requiring of a price for goods offered for sale; as, I cannot agree to his demand

3. That which is or may be claimed as due; debt; as, what are your demands on the estate?

4. The calling for in order to purchase; desire to possess; as, the demand for the Bible has been great and extensive; copies are in great demand

5. A desire or a seeking to obtain. We say, the company of a gentleman is in great demand; the lady is in great demand or request.

6. In law, the asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due, either expressly by words, or by implication, as by seizure of goods, or entry into lands.

Demandable

DEMANDABLE, adjective That may be demanded, claimed, asked for, or required; as, payment is demandable at the expiration of the credit.

Demandant

DEMANDANT, noun One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

Demanded

DEMANDED, participle passive Called for; claimed; challenged as due; requested; required; interrogated.

Demander

DEMANDER, noun One who demands; one who requires with authority; one who claims as due; one who asks; one who seeks to obtain.

Demanding

DEMANDING, participle present tense Claiming or calling for as due, or by authority; requiring; asking; pursuing a claim by legal process; interrogating.

Demandress

DEMANDRESS, noun A female demandant.

Demarch

DEMARCH, noun March; walk; gait.

Demarkation

DEMARKATION, noun

1. The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit.

2. A limit or bound ascertained and fixed; line of separation marked or determined.

The speculative line of demarkation where obedience ought to end and resistance begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

Demean

DEMEAN, verb transitive

1. To behave; to carry; to conduct; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, it is our duty to demean ourselves with humility.

2. To treat.

DEMEAN, verb transitive To debase; to undervalue.

DEMEAN, noun

1. Behavior; carriage; demeanor.

2. Mien.

Demeanor

DEMEANOR, noun Behavior; carriage; deportment; as decent demeanor; sad demeanor

Demeanure

DEMEANURE, noun Behavior.

Demency

DEMENCY, noun Madness.

Dementate

DEMENTATE, adjective Mad; infatuated.

DEMENTATE, verb transitive To make mad.

Dementation

DEMENTATION, noun The act of making frantic.

Demephitization

DEMEPHITIZATION, noun The act of purifying from mephitic or foul air.

Demephitize

DEMEPHITIZE, verb transitive To purify from foul unwholesome air.

Demephitized

DEMEPHITIZED, participle passive Purified; freed from foul air.

Demephitizing

DEMEPHITIZING, participle present tense Purifying from foul air.

Demerit

DEMERIT, noun [ Latin To earn or deserve.]

1. That which deserves punishment, the opposite of merit; an ill-deserving; that which is blamable or punishable in moral conduct; vice or crime.

2. Anciently, merit; desert; in a good sense.

DEMERIT, verb transitive To deserve blame or punishment.

Demersed

DEMERSED, adjective Plunged; situated or growing under water.

Demersion

DEMERSION, noun [Latin To plunge or drown.]

1. A plunging into a fluid; a drowning.

2. The state of being overwhelmed in water or earth.

3. The putting of a medicine in a dissolving liquor.

Demesne

DEMESNE, [See Demain.]

Demi

DEMI, a prefix, Fr. demi from the Latin Dimidium, signifies half. It is used only in composition.

Demi-Brigade

DEMI-BRIGADE, noun A half-brigade.

Demi-Cadence

DEMI-CADENCE, noun In music, an imperfect cadence, or one that falls on any other than the key note.

Demi-Cannon

DEMI-CANNON, noun A cannon of different sizes; the lowest carries a ball of thirty pounds weight, and six inches diameter; the ordinary is twelve feet long, and carries a shot of six inches and one-sixth diameter, and thirty two pounds weight; that of the greatest size is twelve feet long, and carries a ball of six inches and five eighths diameter, and thirty six pounds weight.

Demi-Cross

DEMI-CROSS, noun An instrument for taking the altitude of the sun and stars.

Demi-Culverin

DEMI-CULVERIN, noun A large gun, or piece of ordnance; the least is ten feet long, and carries a ball of nine pounds weight and four inches diameter; that of ordinary size carries a ball of four inches and two eighths diameter, and ten pounds eleven ounces in weight; the largest size is ten feet and a third in length, and carries a ball four inches and a half in diameter, and of twelve pounds eleven ounces in weight.

Demi-Devil

DEMI-DEVIL, noun Half a devil.

Demi-Distance

DEMI-DISTANCE, noun In fortification, the distance between the outward polygons and the flank.

Demi-Ditone

DEMI-DITONE, noun In music, a minor third.

Demi-God

DEMI-GOD, noun Half a god; one partaking of the divine nature; a fabulous hero, produced by the cohabitation of a deity with a mortal.

Demi-Gorge

DEMI-GORGE, noun In fortification, that part of the polygon which remains after the flank is raised, and goes from the curtain to the angle of the polygon. It is half of the vacant space or entrance into a bastion.

Demi-Groat

DEMI-GROAT, noun A half-groat.

Demi-Lance

DEMI-LANCE, noun A light lance; a short spear; a half-pike.

Demi-Lune

DEMI-LUNE, noun A half-moon.

Demi-Man

DEMI-MAN, noun Half a man; a term of reproach.

Demi-Natured

DEMI-NATURED, adjective Having half the nature of another animal.

Demi-Premises

DEMI-PREMISES, noun plural Half-premises.

Demi-Quaver

DEMI-QUAVER, noun A note in music, of half the length of the quaver.

Demi-Semi-Quaver

DEMI-SEMI-QUAVER, noun The shortest note in music, two of which are equal to a semi-quaver.

Demi-Tone

DEMI-TONE, noun In music, an interval of half a tone; a semi-tone.

Demi-Vill

DEMI-VILL, noun A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frank pledges.

Demi-Volt

DEMI-VOLT, noun One of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

Demi-Wolf

DEMI-WOLF, noun Half a wolf; a mongrel dog between a dog and a wolf; lycisca.

Demigrate

DEMIGRATE or DEMIGRATION, [Not used. See Migrate.]

Demirep

DEMIREP, noun A woman of suspicious chastity. [Demi-reputation.]

Demisable

DEMISABLE, adjective S sa z. That may be leased; as an estate demisable by copy of court roll.