Deliver

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

II. Deliver ·vt To Deliberate.

III. Deliver ·vt To Admit; to allow to pass.

IV. Deliver ·vt To Discover; to Show.

V. Deliver ·vt To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth;

— often with of.

VI. Deliver ·vt To give forth in action or exercise; to Discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

VII. Deliver ·vt To make over to the knowledge of another; to Communicate; to Utter; to Speak; to Impart.

VIII. Deliver ·vt To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to Commit; to Surrender; to Resign;

— often with up or over, to or into.

IX. Deliver ·vt To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to Release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to Free; to Save; to rescue from evil actual or feared;

— often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

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