Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DI'VER
DI'VER, n.
- One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as, a diver in the pearl fishery.
- One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.
- A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.
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