To delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel.

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.

Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.

An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

To bind up; to bandage.

A binding up; a bandaging.

To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.

Capable of delighting; delightful.

Endowed with delight.

With delight; gladly.

One who gives or takes delight.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction.

Giving delight; gladdening.

Void of delight.

Delightful.

Very pleasing; delightful.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees).

The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

to determine the essential quality of.

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

To delineate.

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.

Delineation; sketch.

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation.

represented accurately or precisely.

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.

One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation.

A smearing.

Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.

One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.

So as to fail in duty.

To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste.

A melting.

To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.

The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.

The act of deliquiating.

A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.

Delirium.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.

Delirium.

Delirious.

To madden; to rave.

Aberration of mind; delirium.

A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).

Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. Any substance which tends to cause delirium.

Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.

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.

Delight.

Delightful; delectable.

Concealment; seclusion; retirement.

Concealment; seclusion.

Lying hid; concealed.

To chide; to rail heartily.

Chiding; brawl.

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

A female deliverer.

Actively; quickly; nimbly.

Nimbleness; agility.

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

A small, retired valley; a ravine.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.

The duykerbok.

A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

Delphic.

Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

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).

Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.

The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.

A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.

A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.

The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (/ /), corresponding to D. an object having the shape of the capital /.

The formation of a delta or of deltas.

Relating to, or like, a delta.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.

Deltaic.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.

the deltoid muscle.

The deltoid muscles; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to abs and pecs. See deltoid muscle.

Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.

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.

One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.

Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.

Delusive; fallacious.

impressively expensive; notably exceeding typical price or quality.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

One who digs, as with a spade.

the act or process of removing magnetization.

To deprive of magnetic properties; to render nonmagnetic. See Magnetize.

Demagogue.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.

The practices of a demagogue.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.

Demagogism.

Rule; management.

The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.

That may be demanded or claimed.

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

One who demands.

A woman who demands.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.