divaricator (divarikator)

[ Muscles pa .. the wall of the sac. and doubtle act as divaricators of Huxley. dive (div), v.; pret. dived, sometimes dove, pp. dived, ppr. diving. [Early mod. E. also dyve; Provide me (Lord) of Steers-man, Star, and Boat, That through the vast Seas I may safely float: Or rather teach me dyue , that I may view Deep vnder water all the Scaly crew. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. dive Straight into the river Kwasind Plunged as if he were an otter, Dived [in early editions dove ) as if he were a beaver. Long fellow , Hiawatha, vii. Hence-2. To make a plunge in any way; plunge suddenly downward or forward, especially so as to disappear: as, to dive down a precipice or into a forest. She stood for a moment, then dove into the dense fog G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 23. which had floated in from the river, and disappeared. 3. To plunge or enter deeply into something that engro es the attention; engage deeply in anything: as, to dive to the bottom of a subject; to dive into the whirl of busine . How can they pretend to dive into the secrets of the human heart? Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, lvii. IMG:content-2921.png:[blocks in formation] dive (div), n. [ There are 150 gambling dives , the approaches to which are generally so barricaded as to defy police detection. N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 33. They [the New York police] have been well backed up in closing the more iniquitous dives and disreputable resorts. Contemporary Rev. , LIII. 227. divedappert, divedoppert (div'dap"èr, -dop"ér), n. [See didapper .] 1. Same as didapper . Certaine diue - doppers or water-foules. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 59. IMG:content-2922.png:[blocks in formation]