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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Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
Afterbirth :: Afterbirth (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery..
Cranioclasm :: Cranioclasm (n.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery..
Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
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..
Redelivery :: Redelivery (n.) A second or new delivery or liberation.
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..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Natural :: Natural (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc..
Obstetrication :: Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.
Resolute :: Resolute (n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..
Cranioclast :: Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Colostrum :: Colostrum (n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
Obstetrical :: Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art..
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
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