Sweet doxies and dells.
B. Jonson.
||Del"la Crus"ca (?). A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language.
The Accademia della Crusca (literally, academy of the bran or chaff) was so called in allusion to its chief object of bolting or purifying the national language.
Del`la*crus"can (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.
The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.
||De"loo (d"l), n. (Zoöl.) The duykerbok.
||De*loul" (d*ll"), n. [Prob. of Arabic or Bedouin origin.] (Zoöl.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.
Delph (?), n. Delftware.
Five nothings in five plates of delph.
Swift.
Delph, n. (Hydraul. Engin.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.
Del"phi*an (?), a. Delphic.
Del"phic (?), a. [L. Delphicus, fr. Gr. Delfiko`s, fr. Delfoi`, L. Delphi, a town of Phocis, in Greece, now Kastri.] (Gr. Antiq.) 1. Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.