[del-uh-wair] 
) -ware for 5. | 1. | Baron. De La Warr, 12th Baron. |
| 2. | a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 595,225; 2057 sq. mi. (5330 sq. km). Capital: Dover. Abbreviation: DE (for use with zip code), Del. |
| 3. | a city in central Ohio. 18,780. |
| 4. | a river flowing S from SE New York, along the boundary between Pennsylvania and New Jersey into Delaware Bay. 296 mi. (475 km) long. |
| 5. | a member of a grouping of North American Indian peoples, comprising the Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo, formerly occupying the drainage basin of the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River valley, and the intervening area. |
| 6. | the Eastern Algonquian language of any of the Delaware peoples. |
| 7. | Horticulture.
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| Delaware River A river rising in the Catskill Mountains of southeast New York and flowing about 451 km (280 mi) generally southward along the New York-Pennsylvania border and the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border to northern Delaware, where it enters Delaware Bay. The Dutch explorers named it the South River to distinguish it from the North River, an estuary of the Hudson River. |