Definition of delivery

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Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..

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Tension :: Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness..
Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Obstetrical :: Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery..
Dystocia :: Dystocia (n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.
Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
Parturition :: Parturition (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession..
Craniotomy :: Craniotomy (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery..
Address :: Address (v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..
Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Obstetrication :: Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.
Declamation :: Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Recitation :: Recitation (n.) The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered..
Send :: Send (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message..
Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession..
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