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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.

A second or new delivery or liberation.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

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

Delivery in childbed

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

The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

The action of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

mp stock through which water enters. -- Blast nozzle, a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- In full blast, in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast, n., 2. [Colloq.]

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]

An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

rcises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.