Definition of Delead

1. to remove lead from [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delead

delayed rectifier channel
delayed reflex
delayed sensation
delayed suture
delayed type hypersensitivity
delayer
delayered
delayering
delayers
delaying
delayingly
delayment
delayments
delays
dele
delead (current term)
deleaded
deleading
deleads
deleave
deleaved
deleaves
deleaving
deleble
delectabilities
delectability
delectable
delectableness
delectables
delectably

Literary usage of Delead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Instructions and Methods of Analysis and Chemical Control by Guilford Lawson Spencer (1916)
"delead a part of the filtrate from the direct polarization by the addition of sodium oxalate. ... Complete delead- ing is neither necessary nor desirable. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"... of reducing sugars, the preserved juice gives results about 10 per cent, too low where sodium oxalate or other normal salts are used to delead. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1832)
"Nelson took the driven on the rocks and totally delead of him, and preserved it to the last; and it is evident that his splendid successes stroyed. ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... but they have taken a course to prevent that, and brought roe hither, because it is impossible I should here delead myself. /.. (.'. /. ..."

5. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"... a slight excess of normal lead acetate, make up to the mark, shake, filter, delead with dry sodium carbonate or sulphate and again filter. ..."

6. The Rule of S. Benet: Latin and Anglo-Saxon Interlinear Versionby Benedict by Benedict (1888)
"... their spelling would make the text absolutely unintelligible to the ordinary reader. No one will for a moment feel doubts as to the meaning of delead, ..."

7. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances by Thomas Percy (1868)
"235, note 5, "and delead." Perhaps so ; but iu old ballads and is sometimes redundant.—D. p. 237, 1. ..."

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