Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Deliver

Deliver , transitive verb

[French délivrer, Late Latin deliberare to liberate, give over, from Latin de + liberare to set free. See Liberate.]

1.
To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. — Ezek. xxxiii. 5
Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. — Milton
2.
To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. — Gen. xl. 13
The constables have delivered her over. — Shakespeare
The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. — Pope
3.
To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
Till he these words to him deliver might. — Spenser
Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. — Bacon
4.
To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. — Sidney
An uninstructed bowler... thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. — Sir W. Scott
5.
To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
She was delivered safe and soon. — Gower
Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. — Peacham
6.
To discover; to show. [Poetic]
I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. — Shakespeare
7.
To deliberate. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
8.
To admit; to allow to pass. [Obsolete] — Bacon

Deliver , adjective

[Old French delivre free, unfettered. See Deliver, transitive verb]

Free; nimble; sprightly; active. [Obsolete]
Wonderly deliver and great of strength. — Chaucer