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ing, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. I do commit his youth To your direction. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

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.

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.

Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

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.

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

Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. [Archaic] He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave…

From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly a…

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.

The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.