deltafication

[ Gr.delta; Lat. facio = to make.] The act or proce of forming a delta at the mouth of a river. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-2100.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Applied to a torrent or flood of anything resem- bling water, as fire, lava, melted stone, . "The beds of lava rise in succe ive gently-sloping plains, towards the interior, whence the deluges of melted the World (1876), ch. 1., p. 6. stone have originally proceeded." Darwin : Voyage round For the difference between deluge and overflow , see OVERFLOW. deluge tablet, deluge tablets, s. & s. pl. Archæol.: The name given to a tablet or tablets IMG:content-2101.png:[blocks in formation] "No longer then within his banks he dwells, First to a torrent then a deluge swells."" Denham: Cooper's Hill , 355, 356. Biblical Archæology, on Dec. 3, 1872 [BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY], and a revised translation published in 1874. What Mr. George Smith called the Flood hero was Adra-has is. In Babylonian proper names compounded of two elements, either might at pleasure be placed first. Reversing the relative positions of the two elements, the name becomes This pious man was ordered by the god Izdubar to make a ship of a certain number of cubits length, breadth, and height. Adra-has is replied, "When by me it shall be done, I shall be derided by young men and old men." Omitting much, let the following suffice as further specimens of the tablets. "Wine in receptacles and wine I collected like the waters of a river; also food like the dust of the earth; also I collected in boxes with my hand and placed. Seed of life the whole I caused to go up into the ship. A flood Shamas made, and he spake, saying, 'In the night I will cause it to rain from heaven heavily; enter the midst of the ship, and shut thy door. That flood happened, of which he spake, saying: "In the night I will cause it to rain from heaven heavily." IMG:content-2102.png:[blocks in formation] the tempest, and sought refuge, they ascended to the heaven of Anu. Six days and nights pa ed, the wind, deluge, and storm overwhelmed. On the seventh day in its course the rain from heaven, and all the deluge which had destroyed like an earthquake quieted, the sea he caused to dry, and the wind and deluge ended." "I perceived the sea making a to ing, and the whole of mankind turned to corruption. corpses floated. To the country of Nizir went the ship; the mountain of Nizir stopped the ship, and to pa over it was not able." "I sent forth a dove, and it left. The dove went and turned, and a resting-place it could not enter, and it returned. I sent forth a swallow, and it left. The swallow went and turned, and a resting-place it could not enter, and it returned. I sent forth a raven, in the water it and it did attend wandered and it left. The raven went, the corpses which away, and did not return. I sent the animals forth to the four winds. I poured out a libation. I built an altar on the peak of the mountain."- Bib . Archœol Soc. Trans ., iii. (1874), 530-596. děl-uge (1), v. t. & i. [DELUGE, 8.] A. Transitive : "I'd weep the world to such a strain, That it should deluge once again." Marq. of Montrose: On the Death of Charles I. IMG:content-2103.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2104.png:[blocks in formation] M. Delvaux.] Mineralogy: 1. A variety of Dufrenite. It occurs at Besnau, near Visé, in Belgium. 2. The same as BOROCHITE (q. v.).