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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.

The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.

a lesser degree; a misdemeanor. Every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies a delict in the event of its violation. Jeffrey.

To bind up; to bandage.

A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.

ble feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2.

Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.

Endowed with delight. If virtue no delighted beauty lack. Shak.

With delight; gladly.

One who gives or takes delight.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

Void of delight. Thomson.

Delightful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

To strip or remove the wood from; as, to delignate ramie, in the preparation of ribbons of the fiber for further working.

e mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.