Definition of delivery

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Delivery (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery..

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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..
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
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..
Elocution :: Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution..
Delivery :: 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..
Spotted :: Spot (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery..
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..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..
Dystocia :: Dystocia (n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.
Cephalotome :: Cephalotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery..
Craniotomy :: Craniotomy (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery..
Cephalometer :: Cephalometer (n.) An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon..
Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
Backwardation :: Backwardation (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango..
Redelivery :: Redelivery (n.) A second or new delivery or liberation.
Abortifacient :: Abortifacient (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature 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..
Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..
Payable :: Payable (a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
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