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<p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; <as>as, the <ex>Directory</ex> used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; <as>as, a business <ex>directory</ex></as>.</def> <-- as, a telephone directory. -->

<p><b>3.</b> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>directoire</ets>.]</ety> <def>A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Direction; guide.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Whitlock.</i>

<h1>Directress</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*rect"ress</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who directs.</def>

<i>Bp. Hurd.</i>

<h1>Directrix</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*rect"rix</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Directrixes</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, L. <er>Directrices</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>.

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A directress.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.</def>

<h1>Direful</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dire"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dire</ets> + <ets>-ful</ets>.]</ety> <def>Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; <as>as, a <ex>direful</ex> fiend; a <ex>direful</ex> day.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Dire"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dire"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Direly</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dire"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dire manner.</def>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<h1>Dirempt</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*rempt"</hw> <tt>(?; 215)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>diremptus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dirimere</ets> to take apart, separate; <ets>di- = dis-</ets> + <ets>emere</ets> to buy, orig., to take.]</ety> <def>Divided; separated.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Stow.</i>

<h1>Dirempt</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*rempt"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To separate by force; to tear apart.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holinshed.</i>

<h1>Diremption</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*remp"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>diremptio</ets>.]</ety> <def>A tearing apart; violent separation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Direness</h1> <Xpage=417>