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Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words. Their softest delineations of female beauty. W. Irving.

, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. Milton.…

One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written dæmon.]

y of doubt or denial. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

wer and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

e about. [Obs.] The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. Milton.

on of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. The falsehood of denying his opinion. Bancroft. Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved. Keble. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.…

t, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.…

or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. Macaulay. Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting…

the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

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

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

re the expiration of one's term; to abscond. The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. Bancroft.