Verb

To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

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To have a conversation.

(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

To be able to communicate in a language.

To utter.

* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.

(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).

To produce a sound; to sound.

* Shakespeare

Make all our trumpets speak .

(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.

* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6

[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.

* Emerson

Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.

Verb

(en verb)

To set free.

(label) To do with birth.

# To give birth.

# To assist in the birth of.

# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

#* Gower

She was delivered safe and soon.

(label) To free from or disburden of anything.

* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)

Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

To bring or transport something to its destination.

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To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

* Bible, (w) xl. 13

Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The constables have delivered her over.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.

To express in words, declare, or utter.

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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

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To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

shaking his head and delivering some show of tears

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.

To discover; to show.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.

(label) To admit; to allow to pass.

(Francis Bacon)