Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dolphin.
- In zoology, pertaining to a dolphin, or to the Delphinidæ.
- Pertaining or relating to the Dauphin of France.
- Also delphine, delphinian.
- n. A neutral fat found in the oil of several members of the genus Delphinus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to the dauphin of France
- n. A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also
phocenin .
Examples
“The next moment a giant delphin swept down from the hills, the animal and ferret rider in ancient colors.”
““Remember that old tractor, back of the delphin barn?””
“The chestnut delphin slowed to a stop, Danielle halting alongside on Dusty.”
“Inside the corral, a burly ferret on a powerful delphin shouted and whistled, his mount stamped and snorted not ten paws from the pod of sheep.”
“They were on the way from Side-Hop to Florence for delphin treats, humming around the curve south of the city, they saw it at the same instant.”
“As the delphin, she'd had a whole new world to explore; it had been very hard to leave that form and journey onwards.”
The Elvenbane
“(Grasse, 1874); GALBERT, Saint Honorat et son monastere in Bullet. de l'Acad. delphin.,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“The delphin hath none cares for to here/nor no nose for to smelle/yet it smelleth very well & sharpe.”
“Syracufac, aliarurouc maritimaruni ciuitatum; commcrcionim cnimlu - rifque maricimi libcrtatcm dcnotat delphin incuruatus.”
“Four times she had shifted: into an ice-eagle, a species near as large as the dragons themselves and so at home with the currents of the upper airs that they ate and slept on the wing; into a careless delphin, as at one with the waters as the ice-eagle was in the air, into a mighty cedar, with roots deep in the soil-and now, most difficult of all because it was not living, the fire-stone.”
The Elvenbane
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