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Ditty

To sing; to warble a little tune.

Ditty-bag

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

Ditty-box

A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.

Diureide

One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

Diuretic

Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. A medicine with diuretic properties.

Diurna

A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

Divagation

A wandering about or going astray; digression.

Divalent

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

Divan

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.

Divaricate

Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

Divarication

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Divaricator

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

Dive

A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

Divedapper

A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.

Diver

One who, or that which, dives.

Diverb

A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.

Diverge

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Divergency Divergence

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

Divergent

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

Diverging

Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.

Divers

Different in kind or species; diverse.

Diversely

In different ways; differently; variously.

Diversified

Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

Diversify

To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

Diversion

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

diversionary

likely or designed to confuse or deceive; -- of tactics.

Diversity

A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.

Divert

To turn aside; to digress.

Diverter

One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.

Divertissement

A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.

Divertive

Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.

Dives

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the /Rich Man and Lazarus/ (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

Divest

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

Divestiture

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Divi-divi

A small tree of tropical America (C/salpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.

Dividable

Capable of being divided; divisible.

Divide

A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.

Divided

Parted; disunited; distributed.

Dividend

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

Divider

One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

Dividing

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.

Dividual

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.

Divination

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

Divinator

One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

Divine

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

Divinely

In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.

Divineness

The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.

Diviner

One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

Diving

That dives or is used or diving.

Divinity

The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

Divinize

To invest with a divine character; to deify.

Divisibility

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Division

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

Divisional

That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police.

Divisive

Indicating division or distribution.

Divisor

The number by which the dividend is divided.

Divorce

To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

divorced

having a marriage legally terminated and having not remarried.

Divorceless

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

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