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An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.

Declinate.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

To delineate. [Obs.]

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]

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 shades; accurate and minute representation, as disting…

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

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation. [Obs.]

A smearing. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ailure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.

Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.

So as to fail in duty.

A dentilingual sound or letter. The letters of this fourth, dentilingual or linguidental, class, viz., d, t, s, z, l, r. Am. Cyc.

Dentilingual.

Darling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

A young devil. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.