Shak.
Delve, v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
Delve may I not: I shame to beg.
Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
Delve, n. [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Which to that shady delve him brought at last.
Spenser.
The very tigers from their delves
Look out.
Moore.
Delv"er (?), n. One who digs, as with a spade.
De*mag"net*ize (?), v. t. 1. To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.
If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized.
Am. Cyc.