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The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone.

ist's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed. Jer. Taylor. Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.

To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery. He took me certain gold, I wot it well. Chaucer.

To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.]

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

igious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.

One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.

A servant in livery, who rids with his master or mistress. Dickens.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above. -- Round tower. See under…

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.

adition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or…

rson to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver.

Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.