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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.

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

Capable of being divested.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

The act of divesting. [R.]

Divestiture. [Obs.]

See Divot.

A small water bird. See Dabchick.

ia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial. -- n. (Lat. Gram.)

In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.

The dabchick.

Not to be diverted or turned aside. [R.] Lamb.

A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall. [Formerly written also sandever.]

To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

To spring upward; to rise. [R.] Davies (Microcosmos).