Definition of delivery

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Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

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Impression :: Impression (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of 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..
Handsel :: Handsel (n.) A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc..
Issue :: Issue (n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury..
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..
Gestation :: Gestation (n.) The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
Cranioclasm :: Cranioclasm (n.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery..
Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession..
Lighter :: Lighter (n.) A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery..
Redelivery :: Redelivery (n.) Act of delivering back.
Obstetrication :: Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.
Accouchement :: Accouchement (n.) Delivery in childbe.
Nondelivery :: Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Trust :: Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust..
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular..
Colostrum :: Colostrum (n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
Dystocia :: Dystocia (n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.
Pronunciation :: Pronunciation (n.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
Mail :: Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter..
Cephalotome :: Cephalotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery..
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