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   Diver (?), n.
   1. One who, or that which, dives.
   
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   Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.
   
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   2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. “A diver into causes.”  Sir H. Wotton.
   
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   3. (Zool.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
   
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   ☞ The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter.
   
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