delvauxite (vaux as voz)

[Named after M. Delvaux, who analyzed it, and Eng. suff.- ite ( Min.) (q. v.).] Min.: A variety of Dufrenite. It is of a yellowish-brown to brownish-black or reddish color. Specific gravity, 1.85. +dělve, *del-ven, *del-vyn (pret. * dalf , * dalfe , * dalve , * dolve , * dulve , delved ), v . t . & i. [A. S. delf an; Dut. delven; M. H. Ger. telben .] *A. Transitive: I. Literally: 1. To dig; to open up with a spade; to excavate. "Heo letten delven diches."- Layamon, i. 394. 2. To open or break or turn up with a spade. "Then it [the erthe] delve and diche." 1326 1. In a good sense: One who is a leader of the people by his superior eloquence or oratory. "Demosthenes and Cicero, though each of them a leader, or, as the Greeks called it, a demagogue , in a popular state, yet seemed to differ in their practice."- Swift . 2. In a bad sense: An unprincipled or factious public orator who obtains an influence over the mob by great profe ions, and by suiting his addre es to prejudices his hearers. "In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. v. The occurrence of the word demagogue in the Eikon Basilike made Milton doubt whether the production emanated from Charles at all. "Setting aside the affrightment of this goblin word [ demagogue ], for the King, by his leave, cannot coin English as he could money to be current, and it is believed this wording was above his known style and orthography, and accuses the whole composure to be conscious of some other author."-Milton: Eikonoclastes, § 4. (Trench: On Some Def. in our Eng . Dict ., p. 26.) děm-a-gog-ỹ, s. [Eng. demagog (ue); -y.] The same as DEMAGOGISM (q. v.). "A store of figures of speech, which he airs in standing out against demagogy."- Daily News , Nov. 15, 1881, p. 5. *dě-main', *de-mean, v. t. [Lat. de away, from, and manus (Fr. main )=the hand.] To punish by cutting off the hand. 46 Gower, i. 152. IMG:content-2105.png:[blocks in formation] and then demeaning and executing them, what in fields, and what on scaffolds, as the most desperate traitors."-Crook shank: Hist. Church of Scotland ( Ar gull's Declaration), ii. 316. *dě-maine, *de-meigne, *de-meine, *de-meyn, *de-meyne, s. [O. Fr. demeine , demaine , domaine ; Sp., Port., & Ital. dominio , from Lat. dominium power, jurisdiction.] Power, authority, control. "Every creature Sometime a yere hath love in his demaine ." Gower , iii. 349.