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To let; to leave. [Obs.]

of Lete. Chaucer.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

any fungus of the family Boletaceae. [WordNet 1.5]

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

In a complete manner; fully.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.

The state of being complete.

To counterplead. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

. . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness, n.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. [Obs.]

A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.