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Divested or deprived of the helm or helmet.

In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly (Math.), to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of two dependent quantities with regard to each other.…

Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate. [Obs.] Milton.

To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.

To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. [R.] Cudworth.

To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.

To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. [R.] Swift.

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.

To divest of scales; to remove scales from. [An eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.

To divest of solemnity.

To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire. Swift.

A divesting of substantiality.

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.

To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [R.] Fuller.

One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver. [R.] Ray.

Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. The essences of things are conceived not capable of any such variation. Locke.

Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery. -- Va"ried*ly, adv. The varied fields of science, ever new. Cowper.