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fferent; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

The quality of being diverse.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.

coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

In an obverse manner.

Beyond the sea; foreign.

Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.

To search all over.

To season too highly.

e too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.] The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.

One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

The office of an overseer.

To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl.

or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. The only righteous in a word perverse. Milton.

Turned aside. [Obs.]