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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



... and truth. The main point of Whistler's "Ten o'clock" is that art is not a social activity. "Listen," he cries, "there never was an artistic period. There never was an art-loving nation. In the beginning man went forth each day—some to battle, some to the chase; others again to dig and to delve in the field—all that they might gain and live or lose and die. Until there was found among them one, differing from the rest, whose pursuits attracted him not, and so he stayed by the tents with the ...
— Essays on Art • A. Clutton-Brock
... back and tried to delve into the past. The first connecting link seemed years ago,—he was running away from something, her hand within his. The girl—yes, he remembered now, but still very indistinctly. But soon with a great influx of joy he recalled that moment at the door when he had realized what she meant to him, ...
— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... be done for those braw fellows. They canna ditch and delve like an Irish peasant. It would be like harnessing ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... mystification. But he understood perfectly, and he bitterly envied the younger man's knowledge and ability that enabled him to delve into the mysteries of nature which had always been so attractive to his own mind. And somehow, he acquired a sudden deep hatred of the coolly confident young man who spoke so positively of accomplishing ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... good deeds must be counted the fostering of the musical ambitions of Arthur Foote, who was for two years the leader of the Glee Club of Harvard University. Though he has by no means been content to delve no deeper into music than glee-club depths, I think the training has been of value, and its peculiar character is patent in his works. He is especially fond of writing for men's voices, and is remarkably at home in their management, ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes


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