Dictionary: DI-URN'AL-LY – DI-VERG'ING-LY

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DI-URN'AL-LY, adv.

Daily; every day.

DI-U-TURN'AL, a.

Lasting; being of long continuance. – Milton.

DI-U-TURN'I-TY, n. [L. diuturnitas, from diuturnus, of long continuance, from diu, dies.]

Length of time; long duration. – Brown.

DI-VA-GA'TION, n. [L. divagor.]

A going astray. [Not used.]

DI-VAN', n. [Ar. Pers. دِبَوان diwan. The Arabic verb دَانَ dauna is rendered, to be low, mean, vile, contemptible, (qu. down,) and also, to write on a white table. Hence divan is a register or table of names or accounts, and hence it came to signify a court or council assembled, as we use board and exchequer.]

  1. Among the Turks and other Orientals, a court of justice, or a council.
  2. A council-chamber; a hall; a court.
  3. Any council assembled. – Pope. Milton.

DI-VAR'I-CATE, a.

In botany, turning off from any thing irregularly, and almost at a right angle. – Lindley. Turning off so as to form an obtuse angle above, and an acute angle below. – DeCand. Willd.

DI-VAR'I-CATE, v.i. [L. divaricatus; divarico; di, dis, and varico, to straddle.]

To open; to fork; to part into two branches. – Woodward.

DI-VAR'I-CATE, v.t.

To divide into two branches. – Grew.

DI-VAR'I-CA-TED, pp.

Parted into two branches.

DI-VAR'I-CA-TING, ppr.

Parting into two branches.

DI-VAR'I-CA-TION, a.

  1. A parting; a forking; a separation into two branches.
  2. A crossing or intersection of fibers at different angles. – Coxe.

DIVE, v.i. [Sax. dyfan, ge-dufian; Gr. δυπτω; It. tuffare; coinciding with dip, Heb. Ch. טבע. The same word in Syr. and Ar. signifies to stamp, strike, print, impress. Class Db, No. 28. The sense then is, to thrust or drive.]

  1. To descend or plunge into water, as an animal head first; to thrust the body into water or other liquor, or if already in water, to plunge deeper. In the pearl fishery, men are employed to dive for shells.
  2. To go deep into any subject; as, to dive into the nature of things, into arts or science. – Dryden.
  3. To plunge into any business or condition, so as to be thoroughly engaged in it. Shak.
  4. To sink; to penetrate. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. – Shak.

DIVE, v.t.

To explore by diving. [Rare.] The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. – Denham.

DI'VEL, n.

A large cartilaginous fish, with a bifurcated snout; the sea duvvil of Nieuhoff. – Pennant.

DI-VEL'LENT, a. [L. divellens, divello; dis and vello, to pull.]

Drawing asunder; separating.

DI-VEL'LI-CATE, v.t.

To pull in pieces.

DI'VER, n.

  1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as, a diver in the pearl fishery.
  2. One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.
  3. A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.

DI'VERB, n.

A proverb. [Not in use.] – Burton.

DI-VERB-ER-A'TION, n. [L. diverbero, to beat through.]

A sounding through.

DI-VERGE', v.i. [diverj'; L. divergo; di, dis, and vergo, to incline.]

To tend from one point and recede from each other; to shoot, extend or proceed from a point in different directions, or not in parallel lines. Rays of light proceed from the sun and continually diverge. It is opposed to converge.

DI-VERGE'MENT, n.

Act of diverging.

DI-VERG'ENCE, n.

A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as, the divergence of lines, or the angle of divergence. – Gregory.

DI-VERG'ENT, a.

Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the same point; opposed to convergent.

DI-VERG'ING, ppr.

Receding from each other, as they proceed.

DI-VERG'ING-LY, adv.

In a diverging manner.