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To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

ifference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]

To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton.

One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.

Capable of being diverted.

A diverticulum.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

) A light and pleasing composition.

Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.

To divert; to entertain. [Obs.] Dryden.

Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]

A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.

A small water bird. See Dabchick.

The dabchick.