Archaic form of delivered.

simple past tense and past participle of deliver

Alternative form of breech birth

plural of deliveress

(archaic) A female deliverer.

(medicine) An operating theatre or similar room in a hospital or other medical facility, furnished with suitable equipment and staffed by physicians, surgeons, or other medical workers, for the purpose of assisting mothers with the births of their babies.

(uncountable, sometimes hyphenated when used attributively) A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier.

(obsolete) actively; quickly; nimbly

plural of deliverywoman

A woman employed to make deliveries.