deltoidal (deltoidal)

[ From ancient times down to the twelfth century, square, rectangular, or deltoidal instruments of the harp kind appear to have been very common. W. K. Sullivan , Int. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. dv. deltoidei, n. Plural of deltoideus . 1521 After me the deluge (F. après moi le déluge), a saying ascribed to Louis XV., who expre ed thus his indifference to the results of his policy of selfish and reckle extravagance, and perhaps his apprehension of coming disaster. deluge (del'ūj), v.; pret. and pp. deluged, ppr. deluging. [ Still the battering waves rush in, Implacable, till, delug'd by the foam, The ship sinks, found'ring in the vast aby . Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Philips . Words worth, The Brownie's Cell. 2. To overrun like a flood; pour over in over whelming numbers: as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies. the humerus. Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 48. 2. [ cap.] [Used as a plural.] In entom., a division of nocturnal Lepidoptera; the deltoid Lepidoptera of early entomologists, inexactly corresponding with the pyralid moths or family Pyralidæ of later systems. deltoideus (del-toi'dē-us), n.; pl. deltoidei (-1). [NL.: see deltoid.] The deltoid muscle. See deltoid, n. delubrum (dē-lū'brum), n.; pl. delubra (-brä). [L., a temple, shrine, sanctuary, prob. so called as the place of expiation; the lit. sense is more obvious in ML. delubrum, a baptismal font; basin.