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- English Word Divan Definition 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.
- English Word Divan Definition A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.
- English Word Divan Definition A coffee and smoking saloon.
- English Word Divaricate Definition To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
- English Word Divaricate Definition To diverge; to be divaricate.
- English Word Divaricate Definition To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
- English Word Divaricate Definition Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
- English Word Divaricate Definition Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
- English Word Divaricated Definition of Divaricate
- English Word Divaricately Definition With divarication.
- English Word Divaricating Definition of Divaricate
- English Word Divarication Definition A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
- English Word Divarication Definition An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
- English Word Divarication Definition A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
- English Word Divaricator Definition One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
- English Word Divast Definition Devastated; laid waste.
- English Word Dive Definition To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
- English Word Dive Definition Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- English Word Dive Definition To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
- English Word Dive Definition To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- English Word Dive Definition A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
- English Word Dive Definition A place of low resort.
- English Word Dived Definition of Dive
- English Word Divedapper Definition A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
- English Word Divel Definition To rend apart.
- English Word Divellent Definition Drawing asunder.
- English Word Divellicate Definition To pull in pieces.
- English Word Diver Definition One who, or that which, dives.
- English Word Diver Definition Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
- English Word Diver Definition Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.