DISTRACT 70 DISTRIBUTION ing Most worthy sir, you therein throw away Shak. If he cannot avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a inultiplicity of the object. Sonth. 3. To draw toward different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamour A thousand external details must be left out as ir. relevant and only serving to distract and mislead the observer. Dr. Caird, 4. To disorder the reason of; to derange the regular operations of the intellect of; to render insane: most frequently used in the participle distracted (which see). A poor mad soul, , . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak. Distractt (dis-trakt'), a. Mad. With this she fell distract, Remeinber thee! Shak. state of being mad; madness. that which distracts. Distractful (dis-trakt'fyl), a. Distracting. (Rare.) Distractible (dis-trakt'i-bl), a. Capable of being drawn aside. Distractile (dis-trakt'il), n. In bot. a term invented by Richard to denote a connective which divides into two unequal portions, one of which supports a cell, and the other not, as in the plants of the sage genus. Distraction (dis-trak'shon), n. (L. distrac tio, a pulling asunder, dissension, from distraho. See DISTRACT.] 1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. Uncapable of distraction from him with whom thou wert one.' Bp. Hall.--2. Confusion from multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perplexity; embarrassment. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction, 1 Cor. vii. 35 3. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. Never was known a night of such distraction. Dryden. 4. Madness; a state of disordered reason; frenzy; insanity. “In the distraction of his madding fever. Shak. This savours not much of distraction. Shak. 5. Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity. On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction. Buckminster. 6. Violent mental excitement; extreme perturbation or agony of mind, as from pain or grief; as, this toothache drives me to distraction. This quiet sail is a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction, Byron. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents expiring together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler. 7.Diversity of direction; variety of route. While he was yet in Rome, Shak. Without such a nature, it would render his provi. dence, to human apprehension, laborious and dis. tractious. Cudworth. Distractive (dis-trakt'iv), a. Causing per- done. -SYN. Suffering, pain, agony, misery, plexity; as, distractive cares. calamity, misfortune, adversity. Distrain (dis-tran'), u.t. [0. Fr. destraindre, Distress (ilis-tres), v.t. 1. To afflict greatly; from L. distringere, to hold or draw in to afflict with pain or angnish; to harass; to different directions, to detain, hinder, mo- oppress or crush with calamity; to make lest, and, in L.L., to exercise severity upon miserable. with the view of constraining a person to do Distress not the Moabites. Deut. ii. 2 something by the exaction of a pledge, by We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. fine or imprisonment-dis, asunder, and 2 Cor. iv. B. stringere, to draw tight, to strain. See 2. To compel or constrain by pain or sufferSTRAIN Akin distress, district.] 1. To rend; to tear asunder. Men who can neither be distressed nor won into a That same net so cunningly was wound, sacrifice of duty. Hamilton. That neither force nor guile might it distraine. 3. In law, to seize for debt; to distrain. Spenser. 2. † To seize; to take possession of. SYN. To pain, grieve, afflict, harass, trouble, perplex. Distressed, Distrest (dis-trest), p. and a. 3. In law, to seize for debt; to take a per Suffering great pain or torture: severely sonal chattel from the possession of a wrong afflicted; harassed; oppressed with calamity or misfortune. 'Afflicted or distressed in doer into the possession of the injured party, to satisfy a demand, or compel the perform mind, body, or estate.' Book of Common Prayer. ance of a duty; as, to distrain goods for or all the griefs that harass the distrest. rent or for an amercement. -4. To re Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Johnson. strain to bind; to confine. *Distrained Chaucer. with chains. Distressedness (dis-trest'nes), n. A state of being greatly pained. Distrain (dis-tran), v.i. To make seizure Distressful (dis-tres'ful), a. of goods. "On whom I cannot distrain for 1. Inflicting debt.' Camden. or bringing distress; calamitous; as, a dis. tressful event. A distressful stroke.' Shak. For neglecting to do suit to the lord's court or other personal service, the lord may distrain of com. 2 Indicating distress; proceeding from mon right. Blackstone. pain or anguish; as, distressful cries. Distrainable (dis-tran/a-b1 ), a. That is 3. Attended with poverty or misery; gained liable to be taken for distress. by severe toil. Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body filld and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crainm d with distressful bread. training Shark Distrait (dis-tră), a. (Fr.) Abstracted; Distressfully (dis-tres'fyl-li), adv. In a absent-minded; inattentive. painful manner. Distraught + (dis-trat), p. and a. 1. Drawn Distressing (dis-tres'ing), a. Very afflictapart; separated. ing; affecting with severe pain; as, a disHis greedy throte, therewith in two distraught, tressing sickness. Spenser. Distressingly (dis-tres'ing-li), ady. In a 2. Distracted; perplexed. distressing manner; with great pain. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Distreyne,t v.t. (See DISTRAIN] To conWhich are the most distraught and full of pain. strain. E. B. Browning The holy chirche distreyneth him for to do open Distream (dis-trēm'), v.i. (Prefix dis, asun- penance. Chaucer. der, and stream.) To spread or flow over. Distributable (dis - tri' būt - a - bl), a. (See Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. DISTRIBUTE.) That may be distributed; Shenstone. that may be assigned in portions. Distress (dis-tres), n. (O. Fr. destresse, des Distributary (dis-tri būt-a-ri), a. That distrece, oppression, from destrecer, to oppress, tributes or is distributed; distributive. from the hypothetical L.L. destrictiare, Distribute (dis-tribūt), v.t. pret. & pp. disfrom districtus, pp. of distringo, to draw tributed; ppr. distributing. [L. distribuo, apart, to bind, hinder, molest. See DiS. to divide, distribute-dis, distrib., and triTRAIN.) 1. Extreme pain; anguish of body buo, to give or divide.] 1. To divide among or mind; as, to suffer great distress from the two or more; to deal out; to give or bestow gout, or from the loss of near friends. in parts or portions; as, Moses distributed With sorrow and heart's distress lands to the tribes of Israel; Christ disWearied I fell asleep. Milton. tributed the loaves to his disciples. 2. That which causes suffering; affliction; Walk your dim cloister, and distribute dole. calamity; adversity; misery. Tennyson. On earth distress of nations. Luke xxi. 25. 2. To dispense; to administer; as, to dis3. A state of danger; as, a ship in dis tribute justice. - 3. To divide or separate, as tress, from leaking, loss of spars, or want into classes, orders, genera, and species. --of provisions or water, &c. – 4. In law, 4. In printing, to separate, as types, and place (a) the act of distraining; the taking of any them in their proper boxes or compartpersonal chattel from a wrong-doer to ments in the cases.-5. In logic, to employ answer a demand or procure satisfaction in its full extent, as a term. See DISTRIfor a wrong committed. Distress, in its BUTED. --SYN. To dispense, deal out, appormost simple form, may be stated to be tion, partition, allot, share, assign. the taking of personal chattels out of the Distribute (dis-tribút), v.i. To make dispossession of an alleged defaulter or wrong tribution; to exercise charity. Distributing doer, for the purpose of compelling him, to the necessity of saints.' Rom. xii. 13. through the inconvenience resulting from Distributed (dis-tri'but-ed), p. and a. Di. the withholding of such personal chattels, vided among a number; dealt out; assigned to perform the act in respect of which he is a in portions; separated; bestowed. -- Distridefaulter, or to make compensation for the buted term, in logic, a term employed in wrong which he has committed. Distresses its full extent, so as to comprehend all its may be had for various kinds of injuries, significates, or everything to which it is and as a means of enforcing process, or the applicable. performance of certain acts in various cases, Distributer (dis-tri būt-ér), n. One who but the most usual injury for which a dis or that which divides or deals out in parts; tress may be taken is that of non-payment one who bestows in portions; a dispenser. of rent. The subject of distress is one of Distribution (dis-tri-bü'shon), n. [L disgreat extent, and in the English law in- tributio, a division, distribution, from dixvolves a great number of particular cases. tribuo. See DISTRIBUTE.] 1. The act of Infinite distress, one that has no bounds dividing among a number; allotment in with regard to its quantity, and may be re- parts or portions; as, the distribution of an peated from time to time until the stub. estate among heirs or children.-2. The act bornness of the party is conquered. Such of giving in charity; a bestowing in porare distresses for fealty or suit of court, tions. and for compelling jurors to attend. (6) The Of great riches there is no real use except it be in thing taken by distraining: that which is the distribution, Bacon seized to procure satisfaction. 3. Dispensation; administration to numbers; A distress of household goods shall be impounded a rendering to individuals; as, the distribuunder cover. If the lessor does not find sufficient tion of justice. --4. The act of separating distress on the premises, &c. Blackstone. into distinct parts or classes; classification; (c) In Scots lau, a pledge taken by the sheriff systematic arrangement; as, the distribufrom those who came to fairs, for their good tion of plants into genera and species. -behaviour, which, at the end of the fair or “The regular distribution of power into dismarket, was delivered back if no harm were tinct departments.' Hamilton.-5. In logie. DISTRIBUTIVE 71 DISULPHIDE the distinguishing of an universal whole into Distriction (dis-trik'shon), n. Sudden dis- ment.--2. To move or agitate; to disquiet; its several kinds or species; thus differing play. (Rare.] to throw into confusion or disorder. from division, by which an integral whole is District-judge (dis'trikt-juj), n. In the Preparing to disturb distinguished into its several parts. -6. In United States, the judge of a district-court. With all-confounding war the realıns above. arch. the dividing and disposing of the Districtlyt (dis'trikt-li), adv. In a stringent Couper. several parts of the building according to manner; stringently; rigorously. Fox. 3. To excite uneasiness in the mind of; to some plan, or to the rules of the art.-7. In District-parish (dis'trikt-par-ish), n. In move the passions of; to disquiet; to render rhet. a division and enumeration of the England, an ecclesiastical division of par- uneasy; to ruffle. several qualities of a subject. _8. In printing, ishes for all purposes of worship, and for You groan, sir, ever since the morning light, the taking a forme apart; the separating the celebration of marriages, christenings, As soinething had disturbed your noble sprite. Dryden. of the types, and placing each letter in its churchings, and burials. In Scotland there 4. To move from any regular course, operaproper box or compartment in the cases. are similar divisions of parishes, called tion, or purpose; to interrupt regular order; 9. In steam-engines, the operation by which quoad-sacra parishes. to make irregular; to cause to deviate; as, steam is admitted into and withdrawn from District-school (dis’trikt-sköl), n. In the the approach of a comet may disturb the the cylinder at each stroke of the piston.- United States, a school within a certain motions of the planets. 10. That which is distributed. Our chari. district of a town. And disturb table distributions.' Atterbury. - Distri- Distringas (dis-tring'gas), n. In law, (a) a His inmost counsels from their destined aim, Milton. bution of electricity, a term employed to writ formerly issuing against the goods and signify the densities of the electric fluid in chattels of a defendant who did not appear. 5. To interfere with; to interrupt; to hindifferent bodies placed so as to act electric- (6) A writ after judgment for the plaintiff der; to incommode. ‘Care disturbs study.' ally upon one another; or in different parts in the action of detinue, to compel the de Johnson. of the same body, when the latter has been fendant by repeated distresses of his goods, The utmost which the discontented colonies could subjected to the electrical influence of an Burke. to give up the chattel detained. (c) An old do, was to disturb authority. other body.--Distribution of heat, a term writ, in the Court of Queen's Bench, com- Syn. To disorder, disquiet, agitate, discomexpressive of the several ways by which manding the sheriff to bring in the bodies pose, molest, perplex, trouble, incommode, the rays of heat, as they fall upon the of jurors who did not appear, or to distrain hinder, ruffle, stir, move. surface of a solid or liquid body, may their lands and goods. (d) The process in Disturbt (dis-térb'), n. Confusion; disorder. be disposed of, as by reflection, by ab- equity against a body corporate refusing to Instant without disturb they took alarm, sorption, or by transmission. --Geographical obey the summons and direction of the And onward moved embattled. Milton. distribution, in bot, and zool. that branch of court. (e) An order of the Court of Chan- Disturbance (dis-térb'ans), n. 1. A stirring the respective seiences which treats of the cery, obtained in favour of a party claiming or excitement; any disquiet or interruption distribution of plants and animals over the to be interested in any stock in the Bank of of peace; as, to enter a house without surface of the earth, ascertaining the areas England, by which a notice is served on the making disturbance. --- 2. Interruption of a within which each species is found, investi- bank, desiring them not to permit a trans- settled state of things; violent change; degating the climatic and other conditions fer of any given stock, or not to pay any rangement; as, a disturbance of the electric which determine its occurrence, and in dividend on it. current. --3. Emotion of the mind; agitation; general settling all questions with regard to Distroublet (dis-tru'bl), v.t. To disturb; to excitement of passion; perturbation; as, the the areas occupied by the flora and fauna of trouble greatly. • Passions of dixtroubled merchant received the news of his losses the different countries of the world. - Sta- spright.' Spenser. without apparent disturbance.--4. Disorder tute of distributions, in law, a statute which Distrust (dis-trust'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., of thoughts; confusion. regulates the distribution of the personal and trust.] 1. To doubt or suspect the truth, They can survey a variety of complicated ideas estate of intestates.-SYN. Apportionment, fidelity, firmness, or sincerity of; not to without fatigue or disturbance. Watts. allotment, partition, arrangement, classifi- confide in or rely on; not to give credence 5. Agitation in the body politic; disorder; cation, dispensation, disposal. to; as, to distrust a man's veracity, &c. tumult. Distributive (dis-tribút-iv), a. 1. That dis I am ready to distrust my eyes. Shak, The disturbance was made to support a general tributes; that divides and assigns in por accusation against the province. Bancroft. tions; that deals to each his proper share. 2. To doubt; to suspect not to be real, * Distributive justice.' Swift. -2. In logic, true, sincere, or firm; to question the reality, 6. In law, the hindering or disquieting of a that assigns the various species of a general sufficiency, or goodness of. To distrust the person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyterm.-3. Expressing separation or division; justice of our cause.' Dryden.-3. To sus ment of his right; the interruption of a as, a distributive prefix; specifically, in pect of an evil tendency or of hostility; as, right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of I distrust his intentions. common, of ways, of tenure, of patronage. gram, an epithet applied to certain words which denote the persons or things that make Distrust (dis-trust'), n. 1. Doubt or suspi. Disturbant! (dis-terb'ant), a. Causing disa number, as taken separately and singly, cion of reality or sincerity; want of conti turbance; disturbing; turbulent. or separation and division in general dence, faith, or reliance; as, sycophants Every man is a vast and spacious sea; his passions The distributive pronouns are each, every, should be heard with distrust. -2. Discredit; are the winds that swell him into disturbant waves. distan Feltham. either, neither.-Distributive finding of the loss of credit or confidence. Disturbationt (dis-terb-a'shon), n. Disissue, in law, an issue found by a jury which To me reproach turbance. is in part for the plaintiff and in part for Rather belongs, distrust, and all dispraise. Milton. Since by the way the defendant. 3. Suspicion of evil designs; as, the attitude All future disturbations would desist. Daniel. Distributive (dis-tri'būt-iv), n. In gram. a of Russia is regarded with distrust. Disturbed (dis-térbd'), p. and a. 1. Stirred; word that divides or distributes, as each Your soul's above the baseness of distrust; moved; excited; discomposed; disquieted; and erery, which represent the individuals Nothing but love could make you so unjust. agitated; uneasy; as, a disturbed counteof a collective number as separate. Dryden. nance. --- 2. In geol. thrown out by violence Distributively (dis-tri'būt-iv-li), adv. By Distruster (dis-trust'ér), n. One who dis- from some original place or position; as, distribution; singly; not collectively. trusts. disturbed strata. Distributiveness (dis-tri'būt-iv-nes), n. Distrustful (dis-trust'ful), a. 1. Apt to dis- Disturber (dis-terb'er), n. 1. One who disDesire of distributing; generosity. (Rare.) trust; wanting confidence; suspicious; mis- turbs or disquiets; a violator of peace; one A natural distributiveness of humour, and a desire trustful; apprehensive. who causes tumults or disorders. 'A needto be employed in the relief of every kind of want These men are too distrustful, and much to less disturber of the peace of God's church.' of every person Bp. Fell. Burton. Hooker.-2. He who or that which excites District (dis'trikt), n. (L.L. districtum, a 2. Not confident; diffident; modest; as, dis passion or agitation; he or that which causes district subject to one jurisdiction, from trustful of ourselves. perturbation. My sweet sleep's disturbers.' districtus, pp. of distringo. See DISTRAIN.] Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Shak.-3. In law, one that interrupts or in1. A limited extent of country; a circuit or Pope, commodes another in the peaceable enjoyterritory within which a person may be com- Distrustfully (dis-trust'fyl-li), adv. ment of his right.-4. Eccles, a bishop who pelled to legal appearance, or within which distrustful manner; with doubt or suspi refuses or neglects to examine or admit a power, right, or authority may be exercised, cion. patron's clerk, without reason assigned or and to which it is restrained: a word applic Many are they notice given. able to any portion of land or country, or That of my life distrusefully thus say, Disturbing (dis-térb'ing), p. and a. Causing No help for him in God there lies. Milton. to any part of a city or town, which is disturbance, or calculated to cause disturbdefined by law or agreement. -2. A region; Distrustfulness (dis-trust'fyl-nes), n. The ance; as, a disturbing element. a territory within given lines; as, the dis- state of being distrustful; want of confi- Disturní (dis-térn'), v.t. (Prefix dis, apart, trict of the earth which lies between the dence. and turn.) To turn aside. tropics, or that which is north of a polar Distrusting (dis-trusting), n. Want of con- Glad was to disturne that furious streame circle.-3. A region; a country; a portion of fidence; suspicion. of war on us, that else had swallowed them. Daniel. territory without very definite limits; as, Use him (the physician) temperatelywithout vio. Distutort (dis-tu'tor), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., the districts of Russia covered by forest. lent confidences; and sweetly, without uncivil dis. and tutor.) To divest of the state, office, or SYN. Division, quarter, locality, province, trustings. Jer. Taylor. rank of a tutor. tract, region, country. Distrustingly (dis-trust'ing-li), adv. Suspi. Being found guilty of a strange, singular, and superDistrict (dis'trikt), v.t. To divide into dis- ciously; with distrust. stitious way of dealing with his scholars, he was districts or limited portions of territory; thus, Distrustless (dis-trust'les), a. Free from tutored. A. Wood. in the United States, some states are dis- distrust or suspicion. 'A distrustless reli- Distyle (di'stil), n. (Gr. distylos-di for dis, tricted for the choice of senators, &c.; some ance on God.' Boyle. twice, and stylos, a pillar. ) A portico of towns are districted for the purpose of Distunet (dis-tūn'), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., two columns. It applies rather to a portico establishing and upholding schools, and for and tune.) To put out of tune. with two columns in antis than to the mere other purposes. Disturb (dis-térb), v.t. (L. disturbo, to two-columned porch. Districtt (dis'trikt), a. Stringent; rigorous; separate by violence, to throw into disor- Disulphate (di-sul'fat), n. [Gr. di for dis, severe. der-dis, asunder, and turbo, to confuse, twice, and sulphate.] In chem, a salt conPunishing with the rod of district severity. Fox. from turba, a crowd, tumult, confusion.) taining one equivalent of sulphuric acid and District-court (dis'trikt-kort), n. In the 1. To stir; to move; to discompose; to excite two equivalents of the base. United States, a court which has cognizance from a state of rest or tranquillity; as, the Disulphide (di-sul'fid), 11. [Gr. di for dis, of certain causes within a district defined man is asleep, do not disturb him; do not twice, and sulphide.] In chem. a sulphide move the liquor, you will disturb the sedi- containing two atoms of sulphur. In a о by law. DISUNIFORM 72 DITTY cree. inile. . ولرم ،S Disuniform + (dis-ü'ni-form), a. [Prefix dis, Disyoke (dis-yok'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., | Ditionary (di'shon-a-ri), a. i'nder rule; priv., and uniform.] Not uniform. and yoke.] To unyoke; to free from any subject; tributary. Chapinan. Disunion (clis-ūn'yon), n. (Prefix dis, priv., trammel. Ditionary (di'shon-a-ri), n. A subject; a and union] 1. Separation; disjunction; or Who first had dared tributary. Eilen. a state of not being united. The disunion To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, Ditone (di'ton), n. (Gr. dis, twice, and Disyoke their necks from custom. Tennyson, of these two constituent parts.' Horsley. tonas, tone.) In music, an interval compre2. A breach of concord and its effect, conDitt (dit), n. 1. A ditty.--2. A word; a de hending two tones. The proportion of the tention. A disunion between the two sounds that form the ditone is 4:5, and houses.' Clarendon. – 3. In America, the Dit (dit), v.t. [A. Sax. dyttan, to close ] To that of the semilitone, 5 : 6. separation or withdrawal of any state from close or stop up. (Old English and Scotch.) Ditrichotomous (di-tri-foto-mus), a. (Gr. the federal union of the United States. The Foul sluggish fat dits up your dulled eye. dis, twice, trcis, three, dicha, asunder, and precipice of disunion.' D. Webster. Dr. Il. Vore. temno, to cut.) 1. Divided into twos and Disunionist (lis-ūn'yon-ist), n. An advoDitationt (di-tā'shon), n. [L. dito, to en threes. -- 2. In bot. applied to a leaf or stem cate of disunion. rich, from dis = dices, rich.] The act of mak- continually dividing into double or treble Disunite (dis-ū-nit), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., ing rich. Bp. Hall. ramifications. and unite.] 1. To separate; to disjoin; to Ditch (dich), n. This is merely a softened Ditriglyph (di'tri-glif), n. [Gr. dis, twice, part; as, to disunite particles of matter. form of dike (comp. church and kirk, &c.), and triglyph (which see).] In arch, an inand formerly both were applied to the emThe beast they then divide, and disunite terval between two columns, admitting two The ribs and limbs. Pope. bankment as well as to the ditch. See DIKE 2. To set at variance; to alienate in spirit; and DIG.] 1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining to interrupt the harmony of. 0 nations, never be disunited.' Milton. wet land, or for making a fence to guard inclosures, or for preventing an enemy from Disunite (dis-ū-nit), ri. To part; to fall asunder; to become separate. approaching a town or fortress. In the lat ter sense it is called also a fosse or moat, and The joints of the body politic do separate and dis. is dug round the rampart or wall between Disuniter (dis-ū-nīt'ér), n. the scarp and counterscarp.- 2. Any long, He who or that hollow receptacle of water -- To die in the which disjoins. last ditch, to resist to the last extremity; to Disunity (dis-ū'ni-ti), n. 1. Want of unity; a fight to the bitter end; to die rather than state of separation. yield. (A saying first used by William of Disunity is the natural property of matter, Orange. See extract.] Dr. H. More. 2. The absence of unity of feeling; a want When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruc. tion which hung over the United Provinces, and Ditriglyph. of concord. asked him whether he did not see that the common. Disusage (dis-uz'aj), n. [Prefix dis, priv., wealth was ruined. There is one certain means,' re- triglyphs in the entablature: used in the and usage ] Gradual cessation of use or plied the prince, 'by which I can be sure never to Doric order. custom; neglect of use, exercise, or practice. see any country's ruin-I will die in the last ditch.' Home. Ditrihedria (di-tri-he'dri-a), n. [Gr. di for The rest to be abolished by disusage.' Ditch (dich), v.i. To dig or make a ditch or dis, twice, treis, three, and hedra, a seat, Hooker. ditches. twice three sides.) In mineral, a genus of Disuse (dis-ūs'), n. (Prefix dis, priv., and Ditch (dich), v.t. 1. To dig a ditch or ditches spars with six sides or planes, being formed use.) 1. Cessation of use, practice, or exer in; to drain by a ditch; as, to ditch moist of two trigonal pyramids joined base to cise; as, the limbs lose their strength and land. - 2. To surround with a ditch. 'Ditch'd base, without an intermediate column. pliability by disuse; language is altered by and wall'd with turf.' Shak. Ditrochean (di-tro-kė'an), a. Containing the disuse of words. 2. Cessation of cus Ditch-dog (dich'dog), n. A dead dog thrown two trochees. tom; desuetude. «Church discipline then into a ditch. (But possibly it may be the Ditrochee (di-troke), n. (Gr. di for dix, fell into disuse. Southcy. water vole that is here meant.) twice, and trochee In pros. a double Disuse (dis-ūz'), v.t. 1. To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practise. trochee; a foot made up of two trochees. "Arms long Poor Tom!.., that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-cung for sallets; swal. Dittt (dit), n. A ditty. No song but did disused.' Denham. - 2. To disaccustom: lows the old rat and the ditch-dog. Shak contain a lovely ditt.' Spenser. with from, in, or to; as, disused to toils; Ditcher (dich'er), n. One who digs ditches. Dittander (dit tan’der), n. Pepper-wort, disused from pain. Priam in arus disused.' Ditch-water (dich'wa-ter), n. The stale or Dryden. the popular name of Lepidium latifolium, stagnant water collected in a ditch. a cruciferous herb, found in salt marshes Disused (dis-üzd), a. No longer used; ob Dite (dit), v.t. (See INDITE.) 1. To dictate; as, It has a hot biting taste, and has been used solete; as, disused words. Disvaluation (dis-va'lū-a"shon), n. you write, I'll dite.-2. To write. Chaucer. in lieu of pepper. Dittany (dit'ta-ni), n. [L. dictamnus, from Ditet (dit), v.t. To dight; to make ready; to Gr. diktannos, a plant growing abundantly prepare. on Mount Dicte in Crete.) The popular and value.) To diminish in value; to de With which his hideous club aloft he dites, name of the plants of the genus Dictamnus, preciate. And at his foe with furious rigor sinites. Spenser. a rutaceous herb, found in the Mediterranean Her reputation was disvalued. Shok. Dites, t Dities, t n. pl. Ditties; orders; direc- region. The leaves are pinnate, the large Disvaluet (dis-va'lū), n. Disesteem; disre- tions. Chaucer, Spenser. white or rose-coloured flowers are in tergard. Ditetrahedral (di-tet'ra-he'dral), a. [Gr. minal racemes. The whole plant is covered Cæsar's self is brought in disvalne. B. Jonson. di for dis, twice, and E. tetrahedral.) In with oily glands, and the secreted oil is so Disvantageoust (dis-van-tāj'us), a. Disad- crystal. having the form of a tetrahedral volatile that in hot weather the air round vantageous. Drayton prism with dihedral summits. the plant becomes inflammable. D. FrarDisvelloped (dis-vel'upt), pp. In her a Dithecal (di-thé'kal), a. (Gr. di for dis, inclia and D. albus are found in our garterm used to signify displayed, as an ensign twice, and thčke, a case.) In bot. having dens. The dittany of the United States is or colours when open and flying: two loculaments or cavities in the ovary. Cunila Mariana. The dittany of Crete is Disvelopt (dis-vel'up), v.t. To develop Ditheism (di'the-izm), n. (Gr. di for dis, Orianum Dictamnus, and the bastard ditDisventuret (dis-ven'tūr), n. Disadventure. twice, and theos, a god.) The doctrine of the tany is a species of Marrubium. Skelton. existence of two gods, especially that on Dittay (dit'ta), n. (O. Fr. ditta, dieté, L. Disvoucht (dis-vouch'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., which the old Persian religion was founded, dictatum, something dictated or written, and vouch.) To discredit; to contradict. or the opposition of the two (good and evil) from dictare, freq. of dico, dictum, to say, principles; dualism; Manicheism. See MANI- to tel Every letter he hath writ hath disvouch'd other. See TTY.] In law, a techShak. CHEISM. nical term signifying the matter of charge Diswarnt (dis-warn'), v. t. [Prefix dis, away Ditheist (di'thē-ist), n. One who believes in or ground of indictment against a person from, and warn.] To direct or dissuade by ditheism. accused of a crime; also, the charge itself. previous notice. * Lord Brook diswarning Ditheistic, Ditheistical (di-the-ist'ik, di- Dittied (dit'tid), a. (See DITTY.) Sung; adme from coming to Theobald's this day.' thé-ist'ik-al), a. Pertaining to ditheism. apted to music. Williams. Dithyramb, Dithyrambus (di/thi-ramb, He with his soft pipe and smooth-dittied song, Diswittedt (dis-wit'ed), a. (Prefix dis, priv., di-thi-ramb'us), n. [Gr. dithyrambos.) 1. In Aliiton and willed.) Deprived of wits or under- ancient Greek poetry, a hymn originally in Ditto (dit'to), n. [It. detto, from L. dictum, standing. Drayton. honour of Bacchus, afterwards of other gods, dictus, said. ] That which has been said; Diswontt (dis-wont'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., composed in an elevated style, and sung to aforesaid; the same thing: an abbreviation and wont.) To deprive of wonted usage; to the music of the flute. used to save repetition. disaccustom. bp. Hall. He knows how to lead off the dithyram), the It was a large bare-looking room, the furniture of Disworkmanship+ (dis-werk'man-ship), n. beautiful song of Dionysos, when his inind is inflamed which had no doubt been better when it was newer, [Prefix dis and workmanship.] Bad work with wine. Dickens. manship. In modern poetry, an ode of an impetuWhen I would have taken a particular account of ous and irregular character. Contracted into Do. in accounts, &c. the errata, the printer answered me he would not Dithyrambic (di-thi-ramb'ik), n. 1. A hymn Ditto (clit'to), adv. As before; in the same publish his own disworkmanship. Heywood. in honour of Bacchus or some of the other manner; also, Disworship † (dis-wer'ship), n. (Prefix dis, Greek divinities; a dithyramb. --2. Any poem Dittology (dit-tol'o-ji), n. (Gr. dittologia. priv., and worship. ] A perversion or de- written in wild enthusiastic strains. repetition of words - dittos, twofold, and privation of worship or honour; a disgrace; Pindar, and other writers of dithyrambics. Walsh. lego, to speak.) A twofold reading or intera discredit. *A reproach and disworship.' Dithyrambic (di-thi-ramb'ik), a. Wild; en pretation, as of a Scripture text. Barret. thusiastic. Ditty (dit'ti), n. (O. Fr. dicté, ditté, recitaDisworshipt (dis - wėr'ship), v.t. To dis Even Redi, though he chaunted tion of an adventure, story, poem, &c., from honour in worship; to deprive of worship or Bacchus in the Tuscan valleys, L. dictatum, pp. of dictare, to dictate, freq. clignity. U dall. Never drank the wine he vaunted of dico, to say. See DIGHT, which is from Disworth + (dis-werth), v.t. To diminish In his dithyrambic sallies. Longfellow. the same root.] 1. A saying, especially one the worth of; to degrade. Dition (di'shon), n. (L. ditio, dominion, frequently repeated. There is nothing that disworths a man like cow. power.) Rule; power; government; do- To be dissolved and be with Christ was his dying ardice and a base fear of danger. Feltham. minion. (Rare.) dilty. Sir T. Browne. DITTY 73 DIVERSIFICATION 2. A song; a sonnet; or a little poem to be 6. A book, especially a collection of poems the word diver is in this country restricted sung. by one and the same author; as, the divan to the genus Colymbus. The leading species And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing. of Sadi. are the great northern diver, the red-throated Sandys. Divaporation, Divaporization (di-va'por- diver, and the black-throated diver (C. arctiDitty (dit'ti), v. i. To sing; to warble a little ā"shon, di-va'por-iz-ashon), n. The driving cus) These birds inhabit the Arctic seas tune. out of vapours by heat. of the New and Old Worlds; they are very Diuresis (di-ū-rē'sis), n. [Gr. diourēsis, from Divaricate (di-va'ri-kāt), v.i. [L. divarico, abundant in the Hebrides, Norway, Sweden, dioureó. See DIURETIC.) In med. an exces- divaricatum, to spread asunder and to be and Russia. The great northern diver, loon, sive flow of urine. spread out-di for dis, asunder, and varico, immer, or ember goose (C. glacialis), is about Diuretic (di-ū-retik), a. (Gr. diourētikos, to straddle.) 1. To open; to fork; to part 21 feet long, and is of handsome plumage. from dioureó, to pass into urine-dia, and into two branches.-2. In bot. to diverge at Diverb (di'verb), n. [L diverbium, the oureo, to make water, from ouron, urine.) an obtuse angle; to diverge widely. dialogue of a comedy-di for dis, twice, Having the power to excite the secretion of Divaricate (di-va'ri-kāt), v.t. pret. & pp. and verbum, a word.] A saying in which urine; tending to produce discharges of divaricated; ppr. divaricating. To divide the two members of a sentence are conurine. into two branches; to cause to branch apart. trasted; an antithetical proverb. excites the secretion of urine or increases ing off as from a stem or axis, at or almost Italy a paradise for horses, a hell for women; as the diverb goes. Burton. Diureticalness(di-ū-ret'ik-al-nes),n. Quality an obtuse angle above and an acute angle Diverberation (di-vér ber-ā"shon), 1. [L. of being diuretic. [Rare.) below.-2. In zool. applied to the divisions diverbero, diverberatum, to strike asunder Diurna (di-érn'a), n. pl. (See DIURNAL.) AC- of any part that spread out widely. di for dis, asunder, and verbero, to whip, cording to Latreille, a section of lepidopter- Divarication (di-va'ri-kā"shon), n. 1. A part- beat. See VERBERATE.) A sounding through. ous insects, corresponding with the Linnean ing; a separation into two branches; a fork- Diverge (di-verį), v.i. pret. diverged; ppr. genus Papilio, or butterflies, chiefly char ing. – 2. In bot. and zool. a crossing or in- diverging. [L. di for dis, asunder, and vergo, acterized by having club-shaped antennæ. tersection of fibres at different angles.-3. A to incline. See VERGE.) 1. To tend or They receive this name from the fact that divergence or division in opinion; ambiguity. proceed from a common point in different they show themselves only during day. The To take away all doubt, or any probable divarica directions; to deviate from a given course term is also applied occasionally to such tion, the curse is plainly specified. Sir T. Browne. or line: opposed to converge. insects as do not live more than twenty- Dive (div), v.i. pret. dived, 0. E. and Amer. The rays proceeding from nigh objects do more four hours, as the Ephemera. Diurnal (di-ern'al), a. [L. diurnalis, from dove; pp. dived; ppr. diving. [A. Sax. diverge, and those from distant objects less. Derham dýfan, to dive; Icel, dýfa, to dip, to dive. diurnus (for diesnu8), daily, from dies, a day. Akin deep, dip.] 1. To descend or plunge 2. To differ from a typical form; to vary Journal is the same word, but passed through from a normal state.-3. To vary from the truth. Act of daylight, as distinguished from the night; or if already in the fluid to plunge deeper: Divergement (di-verj'ment), n. diverging to dive for shells. Dove as if he were vérj'en-si), n. A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as, the divergence of lines, or the angle of divergence. Diver- gence of sound.' Sir W. Jones. thoroughly engaged in it. Divergent (di-vérj'ent), a. Separating or I receding from each other, as lines which of the planet about its own axis.-4. In med. Dived in a hoard of tales that dealt with knights. proceed from the same point: opposed to an epithet of diseases whose exacerbations Tennyson. convergent. - Divergent rays, rays which, are in the daytime; as, a diurnal fever. 4. To sink; to penetrate. proceeding from a point of a visible obDiurnal arc, the apparent arc described by Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Shak. ject, continually depart from each other in the heavenly bodies in consequence of the Dive (div), v.t. To explore by diving. (Rare.] proportion as they recede from the object. rotation of the earth. - Diurnal motion of a Concave lenses render the rays of light The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. planet, the number of degrees, minutes, &c., Denham. divergent, and convex ones convergent. which a planet moves in twenty-four hours. Divedapper (div'dap-ér), n. Same as Did- They are opposed to convergent rays. - Diurnal flowers, (a) flowers which open apper (which see). Divergent series, same as Diverging Series. during the day and close during the night. Divel, n. A form of devil. --The divel on See DIVERGING. () Flowers which endure but for a day, as his neck. See extract. Diverging (di-vėrj'ing), p. and a. Receding the flower of Tigridia. Certain strait irons called the divel on his neck from each other as they proceed, as rays. Diurnal (di-érn'al), n. 1. A day-book; a jour- being after an horrible sort devised, straitening and - Diverging series, in math. a series the nal. -2. În zool. (á) a raptorial bird, which winching the neck of a man with his legs together terms of which increase more and more in such sort as the more he stirreth in it the straiter flies by day and has lateral eyes. (b) A lepi the further they are continued. - Diverging it presseth him, so that within three or four hours it dopterous insect which is active only during breaketh and crusheth a man's back and body in rays, same as Divergent Rays. See DIVERthe day. pieces. Foxe. GENT In a diverging manner. Diurnally (di-érn'al-li), adv. Daily; every Divellent (di-vellent), a. [L. divellens, Divers (di'verz), a. (Fr. divers; L. diversus, divellentis, pp. of divello, to pluck or pull from diverto, to turn different ways-di for Diurnalness (di-érn'al-nes), n. The quality asunder - di for dis, asunder, and vello, dis, distrib., and verto, to turn.] 1. Different; of being diurnal. to pull.) Drawing asunder; separating. various. Diurnation (di-ern-ā-shon), n. A term in- Divellicate (di-vel'li-kåt), v.t. To pull in Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. troduced by Dr. Marshall Hall to express pieces. [Obsolete or rare.) the state of some animals, as the bat, dur- Diver (div'ër), n. 1. One who dives; one Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with divers kinds. Lev. xix. 19. ing the day, contrasted with their activity who plunges head first into water; one who at night. 2. Several; sundry; more than one, but not sinks by effort; as, a diver in the pearlDiuturnal (di-ü-térn'al), a. [L. diuturnus.) a great number; as, we have divers examples fishery. -2. One who goes deeply into a Lasting; being of long continuance. (Rare.] of this kind.- Divers, Diverse. Divers imsubject or enters deeply into study.-3. A Things by which the peace between us may be plies difference only; diverse difference with bird remarkable for its habit of diving. The preserved entire and duuurnal. Milton. opposition. Thus the same evangelists nar divers (Colymbidæ) are a family of swimDiuturnity (di-u-térn'i-ti), n. [L. diuturni rate the same events in divers manners, but ming birds (Natatores), characterized by a not in diverse. Trench. tas. See above.] Length of time; long dura- strong, straight, rather compressed pointed Diverse (di-vers' or di'vers), a. [L. diversus. tion. (Rare.] bill about as long as the head; a short and See DIVERS.) 1. Different; differing; unDiv (div). Scotch form of do, auxiliary. like. And div ye think that my man and my sons are to Woman is not undeveloped man gae to the sea in weather líke yestreen and the day, But diverse, Tennyson. and get naething for their fish Sir W. Scott. Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse Divagation (di-va-gā'shon), n. [L. divagor, one from another. Dan. vii. 3. divagatus, to wander about-di for dis, asun 2. † Capable of assuming many forms; varider, and vagor, to wander.) A going astray; ous; multiform. deviation; digression. (Rare.] Eloquence is a diverse thing. B. Jou on. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without - Divers, Diverse. See under DIVERS. further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp Diverse (di-vérs'), adv. In different direcspeeds there. Thackeray. tions. Divan (di-van'), 1. [Per divan, a collection And with tendrils creep diverse. Philips. of writings, register, account-book, custom Diverse, t v.t. To diversify. Chaucer. house,council,council-chamber,raised seat. ) Diverse t (di-vers'), v.i. To turn aside; to 1. Among the Turks and other orientals, turn out of one's way. a court of justice or a council. -2. A coun- Red-throated Diver (Colymous septentrionalis). The red-cross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. cil-chamber; a hall; a court; a state or re Spenser ception room in palaces and the houses of rounded tail; short wings; thin, compressed Diversely, adv. See DIVERSLY. richer citizens.-3. Any council assembled. legs, placed very far back, and the toes com- Diversifiable (di-vérs'i-fi-a-bl), a. That may 4. A kind of coffee-house where smoking pletely webbed. They prey upon fish, which be diversified or varied. Boyle. tobacco is the principal enjoyment.–5. A they pursue under water, making use partly Diversification (di-vers’i-fi-kā"shon), n. [See cushioned seat standing against the wall of of their wings, but chiefly of their legs and DIVERSIFY.] 1. The act of changing forms or a room; a kind of sofa: it has this sense from webbed feet in their subaqueous progression. qualities, or of making various. -2. State of the fact that in the divan, in sense No. 2, Cuvier makes the divers a family consisting diversity or variation; change; alteration. are ranged low sofas covered with rich of three genera— the divers properly so Accents and diversification of voice.' Sir carpets and provided with many cushions.- called, the grebes, and the guillemots—but M. Hale. day. DIVERSIFIED 74 DIVI-DIVI Diversified (di-vers'i-fid), a. Distinguished Divertt (di-vėrt'), v.i. To turn aside; to 6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in by various forms, or by a variety of objects; turn out of one's way; to digress. parts or shares. as, diversified scenery; a diversified land I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces. Evelyn. And he divided unto them his living. Luke xv. 12. scape. Diverter (di-vert'ér), n. One who or that 7. To make a dividend of; as, the bank diDiversiflorous (di-ver-sifflő-rus), a. In which diverts, turns off, or pleases. rides six per cent.-8. To enjoy a share of in bot. a term applied to a plant or inflores Diverticle+ (di-vert'i-kl), n. (L direrticu- common; to have a portion of in common cence bearing flowers of two or more sorts. lum, dererticulum, a by-road, from deverto, with another or others; to share: followed Diversiform (di-vers'i-form), a. (L dirersus, to turn away--de, away, and rerto, to turn.) by with turned in different directions, different, and 1. A turning; a by.way: The direrticles The moon is up, and yet it is not nightforma, shape.) Of a different form; of and blind by-paths which sophistry and de. Sunset divides the sky with her. Byron. various forms. Diversify (di-vers'i-fī), v. t. pret. & pp. diver a blind tube or cæcum branching out of hesitate or different sijied; ppr. diversifying. [Fr. diversifier; course of a longer one, either normally or tives or opinions; as, he was very much L diversus, and facio, to make.) To make as a malformation dirided in his mind. diverse or various in form or qualities; to Diverticulum (di- vėr-tik'ü-lum), n. In give variety or diversity to; to variegate; as, This way and that dividing the swift mind. anat. same as Direrticle. Tennyson to diversify the colours of a fabric; moun Divertimento (de-vär-të-men'to), n. [It. ) 10. In musie, to vary a simple theme or tains, plains, trees, and lakes diversify the In music, a short pleasant composition, melody with a course of notes so connected landscape. vocal or instrumental, written in a light as to form one series. It was easier for Homer to find proper sentiments and familiar style. for Grecian generals than for Milton to diversify his Most heavenly melody infernal council with proper characters. Addison. Diverting (di-vert'ing), a. Pleasing; amus- About the bed sweet music did divide, Spenser. Diversiloquent (di-vers-il'ő-kwent), a. [L. ing; entertaining; as, a diverting scene or 11. To mark graduated divisions on; to graddiversus, different, and loquor, to speak.) Divertingly (di-vert'ing-li), adv. In a mansport. uate; as, to diride a sextant. - To divide the Speaking in different ways. house or meeting, to put to the vote: this ner that diverts. Diversion (di-ver'shon)," n. (Fr., from L. use of the word originates in the fact that The diverto. See DIVERT.] 1. The act of turnDivertingness (di-vert'ing-nes)n. in some meetings, as in the House of Coming aside from any course; as, the dirersion Divertise+ (di-vert'iz), v.t. quality of affording diversion. (Rare ] mons, parties when voting go to different [Fr. dirertir, of a stream from its usual channel; the divertissant parts of the building. --- SYN. To sever, sundirersion of the mind from business or study. See DIVERT.) To divert; to der, cleave, deal out, distribute, share. please; to entertain. 2. That which diverts; the cause by which Divide (di-vid'), v.i. i. To become separated; anything is turned from its proper or na Let orators instruct, let them divertise and let them move us. Dryden. to part; to open; to cleave.--2. To break tural course or tendency; that which turns Divertisement (di-vert'iz-ment), n. friendship. 'Brothers divide.' Shak.-3. To 1. Di. or draws the mind froin care, business, or go into separate places for the purpose of version; amusement; recreation. study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; recording or notifying a vote; to vote by the In these disagreeable divertisements the morning play; pastime; whatever unbends the mind; division of a legislative house into two parts. crept away as it could. Sir H'. Scott. as, the diversions of youth; works of wit and 2. A short ballet or other entertainment be. The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their humour furnish an agreeable diversion to equals. Gitben. the studious. tween the acts of longer pieces. [In this Divide (di-vid'), n. The watershed of a dis. sense pronounced de-ver-tēz-mon, but theFr. Fortunes, honours, friends, trict; the ridge of land dividing the tribuAre mere diversions from love's proper object, divertissement is now generally used instead. ] Which only is itself. taries of one stream from those of another. Sir y Denham. Divertissement (de-ver-tis-mon), n. (Fr.) Eliot. The word diversion means no more than that A short entertainment between the acts of which diverts or turns us aside froin ourselves, and longer pieces. See DIVERTISEMENT, 2. Divided (di-vid'ed). p. and a. 1. Parted; sepain this way helps us to forget ourselves for a little. Divertive (di-vert'iv), a. Tending to divert; rated; disunited; distributed.--2. In boi. a Trench term applied to a leaf which is cut into diviamusing 3. Milit, the act of drawing the attention and * Things of a pleasant and divertive nature.' Rogers. (Rare.) sions by incisions extending nearly to the force of an enemy from the point where the midrib. principal attack is to be made, as by an attack Divest (di-vest'), v.t. (O. Fr. devestir; Fr. or alarm on one wing of an army when the dévêtir, from L. derestio, to undress – de; Dividedly (di-vid'ed-li), adv. Separately. It is the same Dividend (di'vi-dend), n. priv., and vestio, to clothe. other wing or centre is intended for the 1. A sum divided; principal attack; hence generally, any act word as derest, but the latter is appropri a part or share; particularly, the share of ately used as a technical term in law) the interest or profit of stock in trade or intended to draw one's attention away from a point aimed at, or a desired object. --SYN. 1. To strip of, or as of clothes, arms, or equi other employment which belongs to each page; to strip of anything that surrounds or proprietor according to his proportion of Amusement, entertainment, pastime, solace, the stock or capital. recreation, sport, game, play. attends: opposed to invest; to divest one of Diversity (di-vers'i-ti), n. Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, (L. diversitas, his glory; to direst a subject of deceptive An incarnation of fat ditidends. Sørague. contrariety, difference; Fr. diversité, from appearances or false ornaments. 2. In bankruptcy, the share of any inadeL. diversus, from diverto. See DIVERT.] Divesting them for bed. Shak. quate fund realized from the assets or effects 1. Difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness; as, there may be diversity without contrariety. 2. To deprive; as, to divest one of his rights of a bankrupt, and apportioned according or privileges; to divest one of title or pro to the amount of the debt for which a Then is there in this diversity no contrariety Hooker. creditor is ranked upon the estate. – 3. In 2. Multiplicity with difference; variety; as, Divestible (di-vest'i-bl), a. Capable of being arith, the number to be divided - Diridend a diversity of ceremonies in churches. divested or freed from. of stocks, the share or proportion of the inDivestiture, Divesture (di-vest'i-tur, di terest of stocks erected on public funds, Strange and several noises of roaring, shrieking, howling. jingling chains, vestur), n. 1. The act of stripping, putting divided among and paid to the proprietors half-yearly. And more diversity of sounds. Shak. off, or depriving -- 2. In law, the act of sur 1. He who or that 3. Distinctness or separateness of being, as rendering one's effects or any part thereof : Divider (di-vid'ér), n. opposed to identity. The ideas of identity opposed to investiture. which divides; that which separates into Divestment (di-vest'ment), n. The act of and diversity,' Locke.-4. Variegation. parts. -2. A distributor; one who deals out to each his share. divesting. (Rare.) Blushing in bright diversities of day. Pope. Dividable (di-vid'a-bl), a. [See DIVIDE.) Who made me a judge or divider over you? Luke xii. 14. -Diversity of person, in law, a plea by a 1. That may be or capable of being divided. prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that 'Hard and not easily diridable.' Pearce. 3. He who or that which disunites. Money, he is not the same who was attainted. 2. Separate; parted. the great divider of the world.' Swift.Diversely (di-vers'li or di'vers-li), adv. 1. In Peaceful commerce from dividable shores. Shak. 4. A soup-ladle. -5. pl. A pair of small comdiverse or different ways; differently; vari passes, of which the opening is adjusted by Dividantt (di-vid'ant), a. Different; sepaously; as, a passage of Scripture diversely means of a screw and nut, used for dividing rate. interpreted or understood. -2. In different lines, describing circles, &c. Twinn'd brothers of one womb, directions; to different points. That indi. Whose procreation, residence, and birth Dividing (di-vid'ing), p. and a. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Pope. Scarce is dividant, cates separation or difference; as, a dirid. Shirk, ing line. -- Dividing engine, an apparatus Divide (di-vid), v. t. pret. & pp. divided; ppr. Divert (di-vert), v.t. [L. diverto, to turn dividing. (L. divido, to divide-di for dis, for producing the divisions of the scales or different ways, to separate-di for dis, distrib., and verto, to turn; Fr. divertir. ] asunder, and iil, a root signifying to cut or limbs of mathematical and philosophical separate, seen also in Skr. ryadh, to pene instruments. 1. To turn off from any course, direction, or intended application; to turn aside; as, to trate. Hence divisor, divisible, &c.] 1. To Dividingly (di-vid'ing-li), adv. By division. part or separate into pieces; to cut or other Divi-divi (di'vi-di'vi), n. divert a river from its usual channel ; to The native and wise separate into two or more pieces. commercial name of Cæsalpinia Coriaria divert commerce from its usual course; to Divide the living child in two. 1 Ki. iii. 25. divert appropriated money to other objects; to divert a man from his purpose. . That 2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart crude apple that diverted Eve.' Milton. -- by a partition or by an imaginary line or 2. To turn from business or study; hence, to limit; as, a wall divides two houses; the please; to amuse; to entertain; as, children equator divides the earth into two hemiare diverted with sports; men are diverted spheres. with works of wit and humour. 'Divert the Let it (the firmament) divide the waters from the Gen. 1. 6. kingdom by his papers.' Swift.-3. To draw to a different point, as the forces of an ene 3. To make partition of among a number. my.-4. To subvert; to destroy. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54 Divi-divi (Casalpinia Coriaria). Frights, changes, horrors 4. To open; to cleave. Divert and crack, rend and deracinate Thou didst divide the sea. Neh. ix. II. and its pods. These, which are about The unity and married calm of states. Shak. 5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to 2 inches long by | inch broad, and curled Amuse, Divert, Entertain. See under make discordant. in a remarkable manner, are excessively AMUSE. ---SYN. To please, gratify, amuse, There shall be five in one house divided, three astringent, containing a large proportion of entertain, delight. tannic and gallic acid, for which reason against two. Luke xii. 52. waters. |