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Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

xecutive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughou…

United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.] Solid angle. (Geom.) See under Angle. -- Solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated. -- Solid green. See Emerald green (a), under Green. -- Solid measure (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the u…

In some degree; somewhat. [Written also sumdel, sumdeale, and sumdele.] [Obs.] "She was somedeal deaf." Chaucer. Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority. [R.] Shak.

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

tares Matt. xiii. 27. The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Baird.

etions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.

Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton.