Word Meanings - DELVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To dig; to open as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden. 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DELVE)

• FATHOMER
  One who fathoms.
• SPADER
  One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
• SPADE
  A hart or stag three years old. 2. Etym:
• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• THRASH; THRESH
  derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of with a flail; to beat off,
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• FATHOMLESS
  1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak. 2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
• THRASHEL
  An instrument to thrash with; a flail. Halliwell.
• FATHOM
  akin to OS. faedhmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faedhmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. Patent, 1. A measure of length, containing six feet;
• TRACEABLE
  Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.
• DEPTHLESS
  1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
• SPADEFISH
  An American market fish common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
• PENETRATE
  akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
• DEPTHEN
  To deepen.
• DELVER
  One who digs, as with a spade.
• SPADEBONE
  Shoulder blade.
• FATHOMABLE
  Capable of being fathomed.
• CONVENIENT
  1. Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate. Feed me with food convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. Eph. v. 4. 2. Affording accommodation or advantage; well
• DELVE
  1. To dig; to open as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden. 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
• THRASHING
  a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• UPTRACE
  To trace up or out.
• INTRACELLULAR
  Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
• OSTRACEAN
  Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
• DISCONVENIENT
  Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. Bp. Reynolds.