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such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

tream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

er sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. Pope. Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

. See under Sodium. -- Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc. -- Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap making. -- Soda niter. See Nitratine. -- Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium su…

Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] Crescent spot (Zoöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pen…

Cash paid or ready for payment at once upon delivery of property purchased.

ist's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed. Jer. Taylor. Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.]

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

A servant in livery, who rids with his master or mistress. Dickens.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.

Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.