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A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable 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.

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

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.

d or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe. Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy. Walpole.

Free; nimble; sprightly; active. [Obs.] Wonderly deliver and great of strength. Chaucer.

Shaped like the Greek Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

n overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

want; desire to posses; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd).

Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.

, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon. Milton.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

welling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. "Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals." Addison.

To deny. [Obs.] That with great rage he stoutly doth denay. Spenser.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth. Grew.

To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.