Deliquesce (v. i.) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
Deliquescence (n.) The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
Deliquescent (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
Deliquescent (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
Deliquiate (v. i.) To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
Deliquiation (n.) The act of deliquiating.
Deliquium (n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
Deliquium (n.) A sinking away; a swooning.
Deliquium (n.) A melting or maudlin mood.
Deliracy (n.) Delirium.
Delirament (n.) A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.
Delirancy (n.) Delirium.
Delirant (a.) Delirious.
Delirate (v. t. & i.) To madden; to rave.
Deliration (n.) Aberration of mind; delirium.
Deliriant (n.) A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
Delirifacient (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.
Delirifacient (n.) Any substance which tends to cause delirium.
Delirious (a.) Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
Delirium (n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
Delirium (n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
Delit (n.) Delight.
Delitable (a.) Delightful; delectable.
Delitescence (n.) Concealment; seclusion; retirement.
Delitescence (n.) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.
Delitescency (n.) Concealment; seclusion.
Delitescent (a.) Lying hid; concealed.
Delitigate (v. i.) To chide; to rail heartily.
Delitigation (n.) Chiding; brawl.
Delivered (imp. & p. p.) of Deliver
Delivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deliver
Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
Deliver (v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
Deliver (v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
Deliver (v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
Deliver (v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
Deliver (v. t.) To discover; to show.
Deliver (v. t.) To deliberate.
Deliver (v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.
Deliver (v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Deliverable (a.) Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.
Deliverance (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
Deliverance (n.) Act of bringing forth children.
Deliverance (n.) Act of speaking; utterance.
Deliverance (n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
Deliverance (n.) Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.
Deliverance (n.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Deliverer (n.) One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.
Deliverer (n.) One who relates or communicates.
Deliveress (n.) A female deliverer.
Deliverly (adv.) Actively; quickly; nimbly.
Deliverness (n.) Nimbleness; agility.
Deliveries (pl. ) of Delivery
Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
Delivery (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Delivery (n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Delivery (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
Dell (n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine.
Dell (n.) A young woman; a wench.
Della Crusca () A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language.
Dellacruscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.
Deloo (n.) The duykerbok.
Deloul (n.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.
Delph (n.) Delftware.
Delph (n.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.
Delphian (a.) Delphic.
Delphic (a.) Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
Delphic (a.) Ambiguous; mysterious.
Delphin (a.) Alt. of Delphine
Delphine (a.) Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).
Delphin (n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.
Delphine (a.) Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
Delphinic (n.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.
Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).
Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
Delphinoid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
Delphinoidea (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
Delphinus (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.
Delphinus (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.
Deltas (pl. ) of Delta
Delta (n.) A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.
Deltafication (n.) The formation of a delta or of deltas.
Deltaic (a.) Relating to, or like, a delta.
Delthyris (n.) A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.
Deltic (a.) Deltaic.
Deltidium (n.) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
Deltohedron (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.
Deltoid (a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
Deludable (a.) Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.
Deluded (imp. & p. p.) of Delude
Deluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delude
Delude (v. t.) To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
Delude (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Deluder (n.) One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
Deluged (imp. & p. p.) of Deluge
Deluging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deluge