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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.

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.

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

One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

To misdirect; to mislead. [Obs.] who make false fires to undirect seamen in a tempest. Fuller.

Not directed; not guided; left without direction.

Indirectly. Strype.

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.