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Deliberer. To deliberate; aduise, consult, thinke what were best to be done; also, to purpose, resolue, determine.

Delicat: m. ate: f. Delicate; daintie; pleasing, prettie, delicious; tender, nice; effeminate, of a weake complexion. Vn ouvrage delicat. An excellent, or prime, peece of worke.

Delicatement. Delicately, daintily; deliciously; pleasantly, sweetly; prettily, tenderly; nicely, wantonly, weakely, effeminately.

Delicatesse: f. Delicacie, daintinesse; tendernesse, nicenesse, wantonnesse, effeminacie; sensualitie.

Delicateté: f. The same.

Delices: f. Delights, dainties, pleasures, pleasant fantasies; sports, pastimes; prettie toyes.

Delicieusement. Deliciously, delightsomely, delicately, pleasantly.

Delicieux: m. euse: f. Delicious, delightsome, delicate, pleasant.

Delict: m. A fault, offence; misdeed, omission of dutie; a trespas; also, a rift, or cleft in a stone. Debvoir des delicts. A bushell of Rye, payed vnto the Lord of the Borough of Pont Niusillac (in Britaine) by euery householder of auncient tenure that keepes a fire, and tillage within the Territorie thereof.

Se Delicter. Cette pierre facilement se delicte. This stone quickly riues, or easily cleaues asunder.

Delié: m. ée: f. Thin, slender, fine, small, sparing, scant.

Deliément. Thinly, smally, slenderly, finely, scantly.

Delier. To make thin, small, fine, slender; to lessen, extenuate, or minish.

Delineation. The delineation; first draught, or portraiture of a thing.

Delineature. The same; or, a delineature.

Deliniment: m. A smoothing, assuaging, appeasing, mitigation, qualification.

Delinquant: m. A delinquent, offendor, faultie, or guiltie person.

Delinquer. To offend, misdoe, commit a fault, faile in dutie.

Deliot. Sodden pot-hearbes.

Deliré. Doated; raued.

Delire. To chuse, cull, select, gather, picke out.

Delirement: m. A rauing, or doating.

Delirer. To doat, raue, do things against reason.

Delitescence: f. A lurking, or lying hidden.

Delivrance: f. A deliuerance, deliuerie, deliuering; a releasing, discharging; setting at libertie; also, as Arrierefaix. Delivre: f. The seconds, or after-birth; the skin wherein a child is wrapped at it birth; (a Midwiues tearme.)

Delivre de sa personne: com. An actiue nimble wight; whose ioints are not tyed with points; one that can wield his limmes at pleasure. A delivre. Loosely, freely, at full scope, with good libertie.

Delivré: m. ée: f. Deliuered, freed, loosed, released; also, dispatched, rid from; also, deliuered, or yeelded ouer vnto.

Delivrer: m. To deliuer, free, loose, release; dispatch, rid from; also, to deliuer, giue, make, or yeeld ouer vnto.

Delivreur. A deliuerer, preseruer, loosser, a ridder from.

Deloché: m. ée: f. Vnioynted, or put out of ioynt.

Delocher. To loosen, disioynt, put out of ioynt.

Deloisir. à deloisir. At leisure, hauing little to doe.

Deloüer. as Desloüer. Deltoïde. Muscle d. A certaine Muscle, which drawes the arme vpwards.

Deluge: m. A deluge, great floud, or inundation of waters. Bois de deluge. Tymber a long time ouerwhelmed by waters; Looke Bois. Delugé. Eauës delugées. Waters broken out of their bankes, or ouerflowing their bounds; surrounding waters.

Delurer. To picke.

Demachoiré: m. ée: f. Vniawed; whose iaw is rent, or cut from the cheeke.

Demachoirer. To vniaw; to cut, or teare a iaw from.

Demacqué: m. ée: f. Vnchawed; put, spit, or spued out of the mouth; also, loosed, or let goe. ¶Pic. Demacquer. To vnchew; to put, or spit forth of the mouth; to tell, or spue out; also, to loosse, or let goe. ¶Pic. Demain. To morrow; (Looke Aujourd'huy.) Quand mes amis me prient ie n'ay point de demain. When my friends intreat me, I cannot delay thē, I cannot post them off to the next day. Chasque demain apporte son pain: Pro. (So mercifully doth God prouide for his creatures.) Ia ne vienne demain qu'il n'apporte son pain: Pro. Looke Pain. Tels sont huy qui demain ne verront pas: Prov. Some are aliue to day, that will be dead to morrow.

Demaine: m. A Demaine, &c; as Domaine. Demainier: m. An owner of a Demaine, or of lands &c. in Demaine.

Demaisonné: m. ée: f. Depriued, or turned out, of a house.

Demaisonner. To depriue, or turne out, of a house.

Demanché: m. ée: f. Vnhafted; bereft, or taken out of, it handle; See Desmanché. Demandant. Asking, demaunding, questioning; requesting, beseeching, suing for.

Demande: f. A Demaund, or Question; also, a request; Suit, Action; Petition, Supplication; also, a Clayme. Beaucoup offrir à vn qui peu demande, c'est luy nier tout à plat sa demande: Prov. Looke Demander. Demandé: m. ée: f. Demaunded, asked, questioned; also, request, required, sued for.

Demander. To demaund, aske, propound a question vnto; also, to desire, woe, craue, beg, request, require, make suit, or bring an Action, for.
  On luy demanda la chanson; They intreated him to sing; (Spoken mockingly of one thats newly come out of prison, where hauing bene, as a bird in a cage, pent vp, he may, perhaps haue learnt to chaunt it.)
  Se demander en vn lieu. To wish himselfe in a place.
  Assez demande qui se pleint: Pro. He begs enough that playnes his wants.
  Assez demande qui bien sert: Pro. Looke Assez.
  Chascun demande sa sorte: Pro. Like will to like; a Iacke lookes for a Gill.
  Qui demande ce qu'il ne devroit, il oit ce qu'il ne vouldroit: Prov. He that askes what he should not, heares what he would not.