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A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.]

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

Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24. Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott.

To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.]

attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by the United States.

One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.

ected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A burial place. [Obs.] Ayliffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. Evelyn.

e of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve. -- Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. -- Double pica. See under Pica. -- Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. -- Double plea (Law)…

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

ke a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw…

An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

re it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

e of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. Milton.

inary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

xious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.

d man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. South.