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Delaware   /dˈɛləwˌɛr/   Listen
Delaware

noun
1.
A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.  Synonym: Delaware River.
2.
A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
3.
One of the British colonies that formed the United States.
4.
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: DE, Diamond State, First State.
5.
The Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware.



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"Delaware" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was recognized that the thinking world had to deal with a man of power. Efforts were made in dozens of places to bring statute law to bear upon him, and the State of Delaware held her whipping-post in readiness for his benefit; but blasphemy enactments and laws for the protection of the Unknown were inoperative in his gracious presence. Ingersoll was a hard hitter, but the splendid good nature of the man, his freedom ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... difference in altitude being equivalent to the difference in latitude. A given height above sea-level under the parallel of thirty degrees may have the same climate as places under that of thirty-five degrees, and similar flora and fauna. At the head-waters of the Delaware, where I write, the latitude is that of Boston, but the region has a much greater elevation, and hence a climate that compares better with the northern part of the State and of New England. Half a day's drive to ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... and quickly come away, Our sylvan gods lament your long delay; The stately oaks that dwell on Delaware Rear their tall heads to view you from afar. The Naiads summon all their sealy crew And at Henlopen anxious ...
— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... Steward, Controuler, Surveyor, and the like, which places were supplyed by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland, the Lord Fizmur, the Lord Farneval, the Lord Gray of Wilton, the Lord Feres of Groby, the Lord Poynings, the Lord Harrington, the Lord Ducy, the Lord Daker, the Lord Delaware, &c. ...
— The History of Sir Richard Whittington • T. H.

... worse off in Kentucky than our neighbours. Thar's them five hundred Pennsylvanians that went out in June, under old Cunnel Crawford from Pittsburg, agin the brutes of Sandusky, war more ridiculously whipped by old Captain Pipe, the Delaware, ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird


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