diversion cut

A channel to divert past a reservoir a stream of impure or turbid water which would otherwise flow into the reservoir; a by-wash. di-vers-1-ty, *di-vers-i-tee, *dy-vers-i-te, *dy-vers-te, s. [Fr. divers ité; from Lat. divers it as, from divers us different, diverse; Sp. divers i dad; Ital. divers ità; Port. diversidade.] 1. Difference, unlikene , di imilitude, variance. "By the dyuersite of heuene is dyuersite of coloures of face." -Trevis a, i. 267. 2. A variety; a multiplicity with difference. "When Babel was confounded, and the great Confederacy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity of tongues." Cowper: Task, v. 193-95. 3. Distinctne or non-identity of being. "We form the ideas of identity and diversity ."-Locke. 4. Variegation, variety. "A waving glow the bloomy beds display, Blushing in bright diversities of day. Pope: Moral E ays, iv. 83, 84. *5. Di ension, disagreement, want of accord. "But for there is diuersitce Within himselfe, he ruaie not laste." Gower: C. A. (Prol.) [Lat. divers us -differ For the difference between diversity and differ ence, see DIFFERENCE. *di-ver-siv-o-lent, a. ent, diverse, and volens wishing, pr. par. of volo = to wish.] Wishing for, or fond of, differences or strife. "This debauched and divers i voe'nt woman."- Webster : White Devil, act iii. di-vers-lý, adv. [DIVERSELY.] "Fortunes course diversly is dre id." Lydgate: Minor Poems, p. 119. *di-ver-sõr-ý, a . [Eng. divers ( e ); -ory .] 1. Serving or tending to divert; diverting. 2. Discriminating, distinguishing. "The first two kinds were called diversory ."-Raleigh: Hist . World , bk. ii., ch. xvi., § 2. *di-ver-sõr-ỹ, s. [Lat. diversorium, deversorium.] A wayside inn.