Part 2908

<h1>Delve</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Delve</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Delved</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Delving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>delfan</ets> to dig; akin to OS. <ets>bidelban</ets> to bury, D. <ets>delven</ets> to dig, MHG. <ets>telben</ets>, and possibly to E. <ets>dale</ets>. Cf. <er>Delf</er> a mine.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.</def>

<blockquote><b>Delve</b> of convenient depth your thrashing floo<?/<?/ <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.</def>

<blockquote>I can not <b>delve</b> him to the root. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Delve</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Delve</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.</def>

<blockquote><b>Delve</b> may I not: I shame to beg. <i>Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Delve</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Delve</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Delve</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, and cf. <er>Delf</er> a mine.]</ety> <def>A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.</def>

<blockquote>Which to that shady <b>delve</b> him brought at last<?/<?/<?/<?/

<i><?/<?/<?/penser.</i>

<blockquote>The very tigers from their <b>delves</b> Look out. <i>Moore.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Delver</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Delv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who digs, as with a spade.</def>

<h1>Demagnetize</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>De*mag"net*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To deprive of magnetic properties. See <er>Magnetize</er>.</def>

<blockquote>If the bar be rapidly magnetized and <b>demagnetized</b>. <i>A. Cyc.</i></blockquote> <p><b>2.</b> <def>To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. </def>-- <wordforms><wf>De*mag`net*i*za"tion</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>De*mag"net*i`zer</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Demagog</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Dem"a*gog</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Demagogue.</def>

<h1>Demagogic, Demagogical</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw><hw>Dem`a*gog"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Dem`a*gog"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>d\'82magogique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.</def>

<h1>Demagogism</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Dem"a*gog*ism</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The practices of a demagogue.</def>

<h1>Demagogue</h1> <Xpage=387>

<hw>Dem"a*gogue</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; <?/ the people + <?/ leading, fr. <?/ to lead; akin to E. <ets>act</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82magogue</ets>.]</ety> <def>A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.</def>