资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Delivery \De*liv"er*y\, n.; pl. {Deliveries}.
   1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release;
      liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his
      dungeon.

   2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of
      the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the
      delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods,
      of letters.

   3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a
      good delivery; a clear delivery.

   4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or
      extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

   5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.

            Neater limbs and freer delivery.      --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.

   6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher
      has a swift delivery.