delice

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

delice (plural delices)

1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]

• flower delice

From de- +‎ lice.

• IPA^(key): /diːˈlaɪs/

delice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)

1. (transitive) To rid of lice.

   Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.

• ceiled, cieled, decile

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice),[1][2] from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu),[3] equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) +‎ -ce.

• IPA^(key): /deˈli.d͡ʒe/
• Hyphenation: de‧li‧ce

delice

1. Behaving excessively, a little crazy.

delice

1. insanely, madly

   Synonyms: delicesine, deli gibi, çılgınca

delice (definite accusative deliceyi, plural deliceler)

1. A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
2. An olive tree that is not grafted.
3. (colloquial) A hawk or a sparrow hawk.

• “delice”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “delice”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1139