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Delicacies; delights. [Obs.] "Dainty delices." Spenser.

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

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

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

Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies. -- De*lir"i*ous*ly, adv. -- De*lir"i*ous*ness, n.

Delight. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Delightful; delectable. [Obs.]

A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.

A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

at part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

; of modest look; staid; grave. Sober, steadfast, and demure. Milton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)

A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.

y, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappr…

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

s.] For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment…

One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.