Delightful
(De*light"ful) a. Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit.>" Milton.

Syn. — Delicious; charming. See Delicious.

De*light"ful*ly, adv.De*light"ful*ness, n.

Delighting
(De*light"ing), a. Giving delight; gladdening.De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

Delightless
(De*light"less), a. Void of delight. Thomson.

Delightous
(De*light"ous) a. [OF. delitos.] Delightful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Delightsome
(De*light"some) a. Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew.

Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord.
Mal. iii. 12.

De*light"some*ly, adv.De*light"some*ness, n.

Delilah
(De*li"lah) n. The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn.
J. C. Shairp.

Delimit
(De*lim"it) v. t. [L. delimitare: cf. F. délimiter.] To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

Delimitation
(De*lim`i*ta"tion) n. [L. delimitatio: cf. F. délimitation.] The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.

Deline
(De*line") v. t.

1. To delineate. [Obs.]

2. To mark out. [Obs.] R. North.

Delineable
(De*lin"e*a*ble) a. Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.


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