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Obstetrication :: Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; 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..

Obstetrical :: Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art..

Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..

Cockade :: Cockade (n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer..

Accouchement :: Accouchement (n.) Delivery in childbe.

Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery..

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..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

Impression :: Impression (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of 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..

Retainer :: Retainer (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery..

Liveryman :: Liveryman (n.) One who keeps a livery stable.

Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

Footman :: Footman (n.) A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Liveried :: Liveried (a.) Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3..

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..

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