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The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

A female de [R.] Evelyn.

Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.] Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.

Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

A shortened form of Academia della Crusca, an academy in Florescence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conversing the purity of the Italian language.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

The duykerbok.

A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.

Delftware. Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift.

Delphic.

Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).

Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.