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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

One who, or that which, dives.

Divers

and fishers for pearls.

Woodward.

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.

“A diver into causes.”

Sir H. Wotton.

(Zool.)

Any bird of certain genera, as

Urinator

(formerly

Colymbus

), or the allied genus

Colymbus

, or

Podiceps

, remarkable for their agility in diving.

☞ The northern diver (

Urinator imber

) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (

Oidemia fusca

) is a sea duck. See

, and

Noun.

One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a diver in the pearl fishery.

One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study.

A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.