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Webster 1913 Edition
Delphinus
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Del-phi′nus
,Noun.
[L., a dolphin, fr. Gr.
δελφίς
, δελφίν
.] 2.
(Astron.)
The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.
2.
A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (Δ), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river;
as, the
. delta
of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi