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Release from wardship; deliverance. It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Milton.

. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

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.

ppointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

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.

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.]

To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

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.