Ditty (v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
Ditty (v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.
Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
Diureide (n.) 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.
Diuresis (n.) Free excretion of urine.
Diuretic (a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Diuretic (n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.
Diuretical (a.) Diuretic.
Diureticalness (n.) The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
Diurna (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
Diurnal (a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Diurnal (a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
Diurnal (a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
Diurnal (a.) A daybook; a journal.
Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
Diurnal (a.) A diurnal bird or insect.
Diurnalist (n.) A journalist.
Diurnally (adv.) Daily; every day.
Diurnalness (n.) The quality of being diurnal.
Diurnation (n.) Continuance during the day.
Diurnation (n.) The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
Diuturnal (a.) Of long continuance; lasting.
Diuturnity (n.) Long duration; lastingness.
Divagation (n.) A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Divalent (a.) Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.
Divan (n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
Divan (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
Divan (n.) A chief officer of state.
Divan (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.
Divan (n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.
Divan (n.) A coffee and smoking saloon.
Divaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Divaricate
Divaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divaricate
Divaricate (v. i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
Divaricate (v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.
Divaricate (v. t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Divaricate (a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
Divaricate (a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Divaricately (adv.) With divarication.
Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Divarication (n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
Divarication (n.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
Divaricator (n.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
Divast (a.) Devastated; laid waste.
Dived (imp. & p. p.) of Dive
Dove () of Dive
Diving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dive
Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
Dive (v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
Dive (n.) A place of low resort.
Divedapper (n.) A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
Divel (v. t.) To rend apart.
Divellent (a.) Drawing asunder.
Divellicate (v. t.) To pull in pieces.
Diver (n.) One who, or that which, dives.
Diver (n.) Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
Diver (n.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
Diverb (n.) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.
Diverberate (v. t.) To strike or sound through.
Diverberation (n.) A sounding through.
Diverged (imp. & p. p.) of Diverge
Diverging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diverge
Diverge (v. i.) 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.
Diverge (v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
Divergement (n.) Divergence.
Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergency
Divergency (n.) 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.
Divergency (n.) Disagreement; difference.
Divergent (a.) Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Divergent (a.) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
Divergent (a.) Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Divergingly (adv.) In a diverging manner.
Divers (a.) Different in kind or species; diverse.
Divers (a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
Diverse (a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
Diverse (a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.
Diverse (adv.) In different directions; diversely.
Diverse (v. i.) To turn aside.
Diversely (adv.) In different ways; differently; variously.
Diversely (adv.) In different directions; to different points.
Diverseness (n.) The quality of being diverse.
Diversifiability (n.) The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
Diversifiable (a.) Capable of being diversified or varied.
Diversification (n.) The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.
Diversification (n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
Diversified (a.) Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
Diversifier (n.) One who, or that which, diversifies.
Diversiform (a.) Of a different form; of varied forms.
Diversified (imp. & p. p.) of Diversify
Diversifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diversify
Diversify (v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Diversiloquent (a.) Speaking in different ways.
Diversion (n.) 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.
Diversion (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.