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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.

An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence. Greenleaf. Ld. Abinger.

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.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

ment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

ed, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify. Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. viii. 5.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.