<B>delirium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-liriums,</B> <B>-liria.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a temporary disorder of the mind that occurs during fevers, insanity, drunkenness, or a drugged state. Delirium is characterized by restlessness, excitement, strange ideas, and wild talk. <BR> <I>Ex. He died in a sanitarium, wracked by delusions and delirium (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) wild excitement. <BR> <I>Ex. He jumped up, shouted, clapped his hands, and danced in a delirium of joy (Washington Irving).</I> (SYN) hysteria, frenzy. </DL>
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<B>delirium tremens,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mental and nervous disorder accompanied by violent tremblings and terrifying hallucinations, usually caused by prolonged and excessive drinking of alcoholic liquor, with associated malnutrition. </DL>
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<B>delist, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to remove officially (a stock or security) from the list of a stock exchange. <BR> <I>Ex. The board may at any time suspend or delist a security, on the basis of certain set standards (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>delitescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of lying hid; concealment; seclusion. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Medicine.) <DD><B> a. </B>the sudden disappearance of inflammation. <DD><B> b. </B>the subsidence of a tumor. <DD><B> c. </B>incubation (of a disease). </DL>
<B>deliver, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to carry and give out; distribute. <BR> <I>Ex. The postman delivers letters.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to give up; hand over. <BR> <I>Ex. Dick delivered his mother's message to Mrs. Brown. The traitor delivered the fort to the enemy.</I> (SYN) surrender, yield. <DD><B> 3. </B>to give forth in words. <BR> <I>Ex. The traveler delivered a series of talks on his travels. The jury delivered its verdict.</I> (SYN) utter, enunciate. <DD><B> 4. </B>to strike; throw. <BR> <I>Ex. The pitcher delivered a curve. The boxer delivered a blow.</I> (SYN) cast, discharge. <DD><B> 5. </B>to set free; rescue; save. <BR> <I>Ex. to deliver an animal from a trap. A passing ship delivered the shipwrecked passengers from a certain death at sea. "Deliver us from evil."</I> (SYN) liberate, release. <DD><B> 6. </B>to help (a woman) give birth to a child. <BR> <I>Ex. She was delivered of twins.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to help in the birth of. <BR> <I>Ex. to deliver a baby.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Obsolete.) to make known; assert; impart. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a delivery or deliveries. <BR> <I>Ex. Our store delivers every afternoon.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S., Figurative.) to carry out or fulfill an expectation; make good. <BR> <I>Ex. This autumn the President has a major opportunity to deliver on his pledge (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> (Archaic.) active; nimble; agile. <BR><I>expr. <B>deliver oneself of,</B> </I>to speak; give out. <BR> <I>Ex. The witness delivered himself of all his pent-up hatred.</I> </DL>
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<B>deliverability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being deliverable. <BR> <I>Ex. Additional facilities at the firm's underground storage reservoir near Herscher, Ill., ... would increase peak deliverability of gas from 430 million to 500 million cubic feet daily (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>deliverable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be or is to be delivered. </DL>
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<B>deliverance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of setting free or the state of being set free; rescue; release. <BR> <I>Ex. The soldiers rejoiced in their deliverance from prison.</I> (SYN) freedom, liberation. <DD><B> 2. </B>a formal opinion or judgment. <BR> <I>Ex. Approval is asked for a deliverance which urges once again on the Government the need for an amendment of the law (Observer).</I> (SYN) verdict. </DL>
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<B>deliverer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who sets free or releases; liberator; rescuer. <BR> <I>Ex. He stood forth as the deliverer of his country (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who delivers by transferring or handing over. <BR> <I>Ex. The postman is a deliverer of the mail.</I> </DL>
<B>delivery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of carrying and giving out letters, goods, or other items; act of distributing. <BR> <I>Ex. There is one delivery of mail a day in our city.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a giving up; handing over; surrender. <BR> <I>Ex. the delivery of a town to the enemy. The captive was released upon the delivery of his ransom.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>manner of speaking; way of giving a speech or lecture. <BR> <I>Ex. Our minister has an excellent delivery. I was charmed with the gracefulness of his ... delivery (Joseph Addison).</I> (SYN) enunciation, locution. <DD><B> 4. </B>the act or way of striking or throwing. <BR> <I>Ex. That pitcher has a fast delivery.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a rescue; release. (SYN) liberation, deliverance. <DD><B> 6. </B>a giving birth to a child; childbirth. (SYN) confinement. <DD><B> 7. </B>anything that is delivered; goods to be delivered. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Law.) the formal handing over of property to another. </DL>
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<B>delivery boy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a boy or man employed to deliver parcels to customers. <DD><B> 2. </B>a boy who delivers papers; paperboy. </DL>
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<B>deliveryman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man who delivers packages or goods, especially with a truck. <BR> <I>Ex. The strike of 4,400 deliverymen had laid a high cost on the nine newspapers and on the city (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>delivery room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a room in a hospital given over to the delivery of babies. <BR> <I>Ex. As an R.N. assisting in the delivery room, I am always profoundly impressed at the miracle of life (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a room or area in a library in which books are delivered to borrowers and returned by them. </DL>
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<B>dell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, sheltered glen or valley, usually with trees in it. <BR> <I>Ex. That break [in the forest] is a dell; a deep hollow cup lined with turf (Charlotte Bronte).</I> (SYN) vale, dale, dingle. </DL>
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<B>Della Cruscan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with or in the style of the Accademia della Crusca, an academy established at Florence in 1582, mainly to sift and purify the Italian language. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with a school of English poetry affecting an artificial style, started by certain Englishmen at Florence toward the end of the 1700's. </DL>
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<B>Della Robbia,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the enameled terra cotta ware made by Luca Della Robbia and his successors. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar ware. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Printing.) a kind of type. </DL>
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<B>delocalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of delocalizing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being delocalized. </DL>
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<B>delocalize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to detach or remove from the proper or usual locality; free from local limitations. <BR> <I>Ex. We can have no St. Simons or Pepyses till we have a Paris or London to delocalize our gossip and give it historic breadth (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Chemistry.) to move (electrons) from one point on a molecule to another. <BR> <I>Ex. Analysis of its electronic spectrum suggests that the unpaired election is delocalized (Sheldon G. Shore).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Chemistry.) to move from one point on a molecule to another. <BR> <I>Ex. To understand the nature of the reaction, it is important to know if the ionic charge really does "delocalize" (Ralph C. Dougherty).</I> </DL>
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<B>delomorphic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of appreciable size. <DD><B> 2. </B>denoting those cells of the stomach glands that supposedly secrete the hydrochloric acid. </DL>
<B>delouser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an agent that delouses. </DL>
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<B>Delphian, </B>adjective. <B>=Delphic.</B></DL>
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<B>Delphic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a double meaning; obscure; oracular. <BR> <I>Ex. His landlady was wont to deliver Delphic utterances in foreboding tones.</I> </DL>
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<B>delphically</B> or <B>Delphically, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an obscure, enigmatic, or ambiguous manner. <BR> <I>Ex. "You may go on that assumption," he answered Delphically (Nigel Nicolson).</I> (SYN) cryptically. </DL>
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<B>Delphic oracle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. The oracle often gave ambiguous answers to questions. </DL>
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<B>Delphin, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the dauphin of France. </DL>
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<B>Delphini, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> genitive of <B>Delphinus.</B> </DL>
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<B>delphinin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pigment derived from a variety of larkspur. Its chloride is solunble in water. </DL>
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<B>delphinine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bitter, poisonous, crystalline alkaloid obtained from various species of larkspur. </DL>
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<B>delphinium, </B>noun. <B>=larkspur.</B></DL>
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<B>Delphinus, </B>noun, genitive <B>Delphini.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a northern constellation near Pegasus; the Dolphin. </DL>
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<B>Delrin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a strong, resilient plastic, produced by the polymerization of formaldehyde. </DL>
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<B>Delsartian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Francois Delsarte (1811-1871) or his theories of music and drama. </DL>
