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Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.

s suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. Burns.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. Divers of Antonio's creditors. Shak.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

r instruction or warning. [Obs.] They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. Sir W. Raleigh.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. Totten.

ependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

ch in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dunglison.

Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.

e of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.

A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

p. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.

One who gathers eggs; an eggler.

One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.