Barelegged :: Barelegged (a.) Having the legs bare.

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power..

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting..

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) 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..

Delegate :: Delegate (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge..

Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

Delegated :: Delegated (imp. & p. p.) of Delegat.

Delegating :: Delegating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delegat.

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates..

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) 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..

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) 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..

Delegatory :: Delegatory (a.) Holding a delegated position.

Electro-telegraphic :: Electro-telegraphic (a.) Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it..

Electro-telegraphy :: Electro-telegraphy (n.) The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

Elegance :: Elegance (n.) Alt. of Eleganc.

Elegancy :: Elegancy (n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc..

Elegancy :: Elegancy (n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.

Elegant :: Elegant (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure..

Elegant :: Elegant (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste..

Elegantly :: Elegantly (adv.) In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..

Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter..

Elegiac :: Elegiac (n.) Elegiac verse.

Elegiacal :: Elegiacal (a.) Elegiac.

Elegiast :: Elegiast (n.) One who composes elegies.

Elegies :: Elegies (pl. ) of Eleg.

Elegiographer :: Elegiographer (n.) An elegist.

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