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free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. Milton.

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.

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 neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

To deliver or give back; to return. Ay

A second deliverance.

Act of delivering back.

To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

tion or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

ote (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation…

Delivery in childbed

A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.

Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.