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That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air…

To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

hich they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in…

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.

ey, kernels of barley, ground so as to form small, round grains. -- Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters. -- Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to be sewed on lace. -- Pearl eye, cataract. [R.] -- Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate b…

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. [Local, U.S.]

a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.

To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. There the snake throws her enameled skin. Shak.

To divest of clothing; to strip. [Obs.] Donne.

To divest of attire; to undress.

To divest of the traits of a boy. [R.] Clarendon.

To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.

To divest of flesh.

To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.

Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron.