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A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

epartment of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

ion of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.

A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road. The Lord direct your into the love of God. 2 Thess. iii. 5. The next points to which I will direct your attention. Lubbock.

airs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

ust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.