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ply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.

To rend apart. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Drawing asunder. [R.]

To pull in pieces. [Obs. or R.]

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

d; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.] Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton.

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

A sounding through.

n aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Divergence.

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines. Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.

Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.

Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent. Diverging series (Math.), a series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is extended indefinitely; -- opposed to a converging series.…

In a diverging manner.

Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.] Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9.

Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

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

The quality of being diverse.

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.