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  • English Word Delegacy Definition A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
  • English Word Delegate Definition Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
  • English Word Delegate Definition One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
  • English Word Delegate Definition One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.
  • English Word Delegate Definition Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
  • English Word Delegate Definition To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
  • English Word Delegate Definition To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
  • English Word Delegated Definition of Delegate
  • English Word Delegating Definition of Delegate
  • English Word Delegation Definition The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
  • English Word Delegation Definition One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
  • English Word Delegation Definition A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
  • English Word Delegatory Definition Holding a delegated position.
  • English Word Deleing Definition of Dele
  • English Word Delenda Definition Things to be erased or blotted out.
  • English Word Delenifical Definition Assuaging pain.
  • English Word Delete Definition To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
  • English Word Deleted Definition of Delete
  • English Word Deleterious Definition Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
  • English Word Deletery Definition Destructive; poisonous.
  • English Word Deletery Definition That which destroys.
  • English Word Deleting Definition of Delete
  • English Word Deletion Definition Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
  • English Word Deletitious Definition Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
  • English Word Deletive Definition Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
  • English Word Deletory Definition That which blots out.
  • English Word Delf Definition A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.
  • English Word Delf Definition Same as Delftware.
  • English Word Delft Definition Same as Delftware.
  • English Word Delftware Definition Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence: