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Share; portion; part. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ich an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually d…

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of weaning. [Obs.] Bailey.

A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

See Delapsion. Ray.

nheritance; to lapse. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.

Fatigue. Able to continue without delassation. Ray.

To carry; to convey. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. Bacon.

Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.

An accuser; an informer. [R.] Howell.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

One who delays; one who lingers.

By delays. [R.] Tennyson.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.