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Delve

1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floo (Dryden)

2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. (Shak)

Origin: as. Delfan to dig; akin to os. Bidelban to bury, D. Delven to dig, MHG. Telben, and possibly to E. Dale. Cf. Delf a mine.


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... species was found or genetically engineered you could be certain that people would find a way of proving that they are inferior to us. I love to delve into the philosophies of exactly what "superiority" is. The amount of controversy that goes on with regard to different "races" ...

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Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:57 pm
 
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Re: Problems in the field of Zoology

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Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:36 pm
 
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