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One who, or that which, diversifies.

Of a different form; of varied forms.

To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

ference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]

te, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor.

Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of. A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality. Geddes.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. [Obs.]

Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.

Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.