2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
DELVE
Delve, v. i.
Defn: 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. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
DELVE
Delve, n. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.]
Defn: 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. Moore.
DELVER
Delv"er, n.
Defn: One who digs, as with a spade.
DEMAGNETIZE
De*mag"net*ize, v. t.
1. To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize. If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. A. Cyc.
2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.
— De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n.
— De*mag"net*i`zer, n.