Part 3146

<blockquote>The next points to which I will <b>direct</b> your attention. <i>Lubbock.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; <as>as, to <ex>direct</ex> the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I will <b>direct</b> their work in truth. <i>Is. lxi. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; <as>as, he <ex>directed</ex> them to go</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I 'll first <b>direct</b> my men what they shall do. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; <as>as, to <ex>direct</ex> a letter</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To guide; lead; conduct; dispose; manage; regulate; order; instruct; command.</syn>

<h1>Direct</h1> <Xpage=416>

<hw>Di*rect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.</def>

<blockquote>Wisdom is profitable to <b>direct</b>. <i>Eccl. x. 10.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Direct</h1> <Xpage=416>

<hw>Di*rect"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A character, thus [<?/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.</def>

<i>Moore (Encyc. of Music).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Direct-acting</h1> <Xpage=416>

<hw>Di*rect"-act`ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.</def>

<cs><col>Direct-acting steam engine</col>, <cd>one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called <i>direct-action steam engine<i>.</cd> -- <col>Direct-acting steam pump</col>, <cd>one in which the steam piston rod is directly connected with the pump rod; -- also called <i>direct-action steam pump<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Directer</h1> <Xpage=416>

<hw>Di*rect"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who directs; a director.</def>

<cs><col>Directer plane</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.</cd></cs>

<h1>Direction</h1> <Xpage=416>

<hw>Di*rec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>directio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>direction</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; <as>as, the <ex>direction</ex> o<?/ public affairs or of a bank</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I do commit his youth To your <b>direction</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>All nature is but art, unknown to thee;< ll chance, <b>direction</b>, which thou canst not see. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; <as>as, he grave <ex>directions</ex> to the servants</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The princes digged the well . . . by the <b>direction</b> of the law giver. <i>Numb. xxi. 18.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; <as>as, the <ex>direction</ex> of a letter</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; <as>as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly <ex>direction</ex></as>.</def>