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

Devastated; laid waste.

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

A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.

To rend apart.

Drawing asunder.

To pull in pieces.

One who, or that which, dives.

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

To strike or sound through.

A sounding through.

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.

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.

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

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

In a diverging manner.

Different in kind or species; diverse.

To turn aside.

In different ways; differently; variously.

The quality of being diverse.

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.

Capable of being diversified or varied.

The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.

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

One who, or that which, diversifies.

Of a different form; of varied forms.

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

Speaking in different ways.

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.

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

A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.

Desiring different things.

A wayside inn.

To turn aside; to digress.

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

Capable of being diverted.

A turning; a byway; a bypath.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

A light and pleasing composition.

Amusing; entertaining.

To divert; to entertain.

Diversion; amusement; recreation.

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

Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.

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.

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

Capable of being divested.

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

The act of divesting.

Divestiture.

See Divot.

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.

Capable of being divided; divisible.

Different; distinct.

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.

Parted; disunited; distributed.

Separately; in a divided manner.

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.

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

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.

By division.

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

By dividing.

Divided; dividual.

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

One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

Professing, or relating to, divination.

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

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

Divination.

The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.

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

A woman who divines.

That dives or is used or diving.

To render divine; to deify.

That divines; for divining.

In a divining manner.

A diviner.

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

A making divine.

To invest with a divine character; to deify.

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

A divisible substance.

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

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

So as to be divisional.

Divisional.

One who divides or makes division.

Indicating division or distribution.

The number by which the dividend is divided.

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

Capable of being divorced.

having a marriage legally terminated and having not remarried.

A person divorced.

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.

The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.

Divorceable.

Having power to divorce; tending to divorce.

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.

To divulge.

A divulger.

The act of divulging or publishing.

To become publicly known.

Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.

divide up among a group; distribute; -- often followed by up; as, divvy up the proceeds; divvy up the loot.

A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.

a former political party in the US; formed in 1948 by Southern Democrats opposed to the candidacy of Harry S. Truman.

the 11 southern states that seceded from the U. S. in 1861.

To dress; to attire.

To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle.

A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]

In a dizzy manner or state.

Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.

To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.

same as disc jockey.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries. A game played with it.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average.