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<hw>De*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>delatio</ets> accusation: cf. F. <ets>d\'82lation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Conveyance.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>In <b>delation</b> of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Accusation by an informer.</def>

<i>Milman.</i>

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<hw>De*la"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>An accuser; an informer.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Howell.</i>

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<hw>Del"a*ware</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.</def>

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<hw>Del"a*wares</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Delaware</singw>.</sing> <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.</def>

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<hw>De*lay"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Delays</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82lai</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>deleer</ets> to delay, or fr. L. <ets>dilatum</ets>, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of <ets>differre</ets> to carry apart, defer, delay. See <er>Tolerate</er>, and cf. <er>Differ</er>, <er>Delay</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <def>A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.</def>

<blockquote>Without any <b>delay</b>, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. <i>Acts xxv. 17.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The government ought to be settled without the <b>delay</b> of a day. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>De*lay"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Delayed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Delaying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>deleer</ets>, <ets>delaier</ets>, fr. the noun <ets>d\'82lai</ets>, or directly fr. L. <ets>dilatare</ets> to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See <er>Delay</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Delate</er>, 1st <er>Defer</er>, <er>Dilate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.</def>

<blockquote>My lord <b>delayeth</b> his coming. <i>Matt. xxiv. 48.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; <as>as, the mail is <ex>delayed</ex> by a heavy fall of snow</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft <b>delayed</b> The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To allay; to temper.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The watery showers <b>delay</b> the raging wind. <i>Surrey.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>De*lay"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.</def>

<blockquote>There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither <b>delay</b> nor hasten. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

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