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Delve   /dɛlv/   Listen
verb
Delve  v. t.  (past & past part. delved; pres. part. delving)  
1.
To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. "Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor."
2.
To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. "I can not delve him to the root."


Delve  v. i.  To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. "Delve may I not: I shame to beg."


noun
Delf  n.  (Written also delft, and delve)  A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. (Obs.) "The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could... keep them dry."


Delve  n.  A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. "Which to that shady delve him brought at last." "The very tigers from their delves Look out."





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"Delve" Quotes from Famous Books



... nineteenth century into the minds of rhapsodists of the eighth century before Christ. Artists of the middle of the sixteenth century always depict Jeanne d'Arc in the armour and costume of their own time, wholly unlike those of 1430. This is the regular rule. Late rhapsodists would not delve in the archaeology of the Mycenaean prime. Indeed, one does not see how they could discover, in Asia, that corslets were not worn, five centuries earlier, on the other ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... me, delve a tomb, And lay me there the earth beneath; After a year, come see my bones, And make them dice to play therewith. But when you're tired of that game, Then throw those dice into the flame; But when you're tired of gaming free, Then ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... the position of the Florentine Republic at this time would be too deeply to delve into history, but it may briefly be said that by means of humiliating surrenders and much crafty diplomacy, Clement VII was able to bring about in 1529 peace between the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of ...
— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas
... with that narrow, one-sided aspect of life and human nature, to which his own individual personal experience, however varied, must necessarily limit him. He would see it under greater varieties, under all varieties of conditions. He would know the history of it; he would 'delve it to the root.' He would know how that particular form of it, which he found on the surface in his time, had come to be the thing he found it. He would know what it had been in other times, in the beginning, ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... is sweet, And soon 'twill be complete! Then to my den I'll haste for gold to delve. I'll bring it at the black, bleak hour ...
— The Rescue of the Princess Winsome - A Fairy Play for Old and Young • Annie Fellows-Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon


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