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The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.

To delineate. [Obs.]

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]

raying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is carel…

One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation. [Obs.]

A smearing. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.

m his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit. A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed. Ayliffe.

So as to fail in duty.

To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [Obs.] Boyle.

A melting. [Obs.]

the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce. Black.

The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce. Fourcroy.

The act of deliquating.