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A directress. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.

In a dire manner. Drayton.

Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.

A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak.

The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.

Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc. Dict.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

Not directed; aimless. [Obs.]

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.

The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican.

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.