v. t. 1. To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To explore by diving; to plunge into. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of low resort. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dived colloq. Dove a relic of the AS. strong forms deáf, dofen; p. pr. & vb. n. Diving. ] [ OE. diven, duven, AS. d&unr_;fan to sink, v. t., fr. d&unr_;fan, v. i.; akin to Icel. d&unr_;fa, G. taufen, E. dip, deep, and perh. to dove, n. Cf. Dip. ] 1. To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form. [ 1913 Webster ]

All [ the walruses ] dove down with a tremendous splash. Dr. Hayes. [ 1913 Webster ]

When closely pressed it [ the loon ] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. J. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dive, Didapper. ] (Zool.) A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. divellere; dit- = dis- + vellere to pluck. ] To rend apart. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. divellens, p. pr. ] Drawing asunder. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. di- = vellicatus, p. p. of vellicare to pluck, fr. vellere to pull. ] To pull in pieces. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, dives. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. “A diver into causes.” Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diverbium the colloquial part of a comedy, dialogue; di- = dis- + verbum word. ] A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. diverberatus, p. p. of diverberare to strike asunder; di- = dis- + verberare. See Verberate. ] To strike or sound through. [ R. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]