See Also: Delicious(medicine)
delicious(dictionary)
delicious(dictionary)
Delicious(tourism)
Delicious Lamb Kabobs(recipes)
Delicious Parsnip Casserole(recipes)
Delicious fried rice(recipes)
Triple Delicious Hot Chocolate(recipes)
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gloaming (iou) and delicious (iou)


gloaming (iou)



gloaming noun.
[Old English glomung from glom twilight, prob. from Germanic base of GLOW verb1.]
Evening twilight. OE.
S. Donaldson Before the gloaming had thickened into darkness. fig.: J. M. Barrie The help..needed in the gloaming of their lives.
Morning twilight. rare. M19.
Comb.: gloaming-shot (a) a shot made in the twilight; (b) the beginning of twilight; gloaming sight (a) an indistinct view; (b) a front gun-sight for use in twilight.
? From LME, chiefly Scot. In General literary use from E19.

delicious (iou)



delicious adjective & noun. ME.
[Old French (mod. delicieux) from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin delicia, pl. deliciae: see DELICE, -OUS.]
A. adjective.
Highly delightful; giving great pleasure or enjoyment; intensely amusing. ME.
C. Kingsley A delicious joke it would have been. Arnold Bennett A delicious wave of joy and of satisfaction animated him.
Highly pleasing to the bodily senses, esp. to those of taste or smell. ME.
V. Woolf These delicious mouthfuls of roast duck. B. Pym The delicious fragrance of shrubs. I. Murdoch He paraded his delicious fiancee in theatre foyers.
Characterized by or addicted to sensuous indulgence. ME-L17.
b. noun. (Also Delicious.) A variety of eating apple of N. American origin. E20.
Golden Delicious: see GOLDEN adjective. Red Delicious: see RED adjective.
deliciously adverb ME.
deliciousness noun LME.