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DELICIOUS, a.

1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.

2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.


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DELICIOUS, a.

1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.

2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.

DE-LI'CIOUS, a. [Fr. delicieux; L. delicatus; deliciæ; Sp. delicioso; It. delizioso.]

  1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as, a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.
  2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.

De*li"cious
  1. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.

    Some delicious landscape. Coleridge.

    One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble.

    Were not his words delicious? Tennyson.

  2. Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

    [Obs.]

    Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury. Milton.

    Syn. -- Delicious, Delightful. Delicious refers to the pleasure derived from certain of the senses, particularly the taste and smell; as, delicious food; a delicious fragrance. Delightful may also refer to most of the senses (as, delightful music; a delightful prospect; delightful sensations), but has a higher application to matters of taste, feeling, and sentiment; as, a delightful abode, conversation, employment; delightful scenes, etc.

    Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay. Smith.

    No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen,
    Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green.     Addison.

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Delicious

DELICIOUS, adjective

1. Highly pleasing to the taste; most sweet or grateful to the senses; affording exquisite pleasure; as a delicious viand; delicious fruit or wine.

2. Most pleasing to the mind; very grateful; yielding exquisite delight; as, this poem affords a delicious entertainment.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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BUT'TER, n. [L. butyrum.] An oily substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. Agitation separates the fat or oily part of milk from the thin or serous part, called butter-milk.

Butter, in the old chimistry, was applied to various preparations; as,

Butter of antimony, now called the sublimated muriate of antimony, and made by distilling a mixture of corrosive sublimate and the regulus.

Butter of arsenic, sublimated muriate of arsenic, made by a like process.

Butter of bismuth, sublimated muriate of bismuth.

Butter of tin, sublimated muriate of tin.

Butter of zink, sublimated muriate of zink.

Butter of cacao, is an oily concrete white matter obtained from the cacao nut, made by bruising the nut and boiling it in water.

Butter of wax, the oleaginous part of wax, obtained by distillation, and of a butyraceous consistence.

BUT'TER, v.t. To smear with butter.

1. To increase the stakes at every throw or every game; a cant term among gamesters.

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