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ant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange- colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.

Small; delicate. [Obs.] "His minionette face." Walpole.

Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden.

Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.

Leading astray; delusive.

ion; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. Gascoigne. I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. Shak. You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.

Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. Shak. Modesty piece, a narrow piece of lace worn by women over the bosom. [Obs.] Addison.

and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.

ial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.

Illumined by the moon. "The moonlit sea." Moore. "Moonlit dells." Lowell.

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.

. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.

A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.