Definition of dire

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Dire (superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

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Broadcast :: Broadcast (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state..
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
Countertrippant :: Countertrippant (a.) Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.
Leading :: Leading (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example..
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
Scalar :: Scalar (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction..
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..
Indirected :: Indirected (a.) Not directed; aimless.
Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Edgelong :: Edgelong (adv.) In the direction of the edge.
Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull..
Course :: Course (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance..
Lineal :: Lineal (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude..
Countercurrent :: Countercurrent (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
Trachymedusae :: Trachymedusae (n. pl.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae..
Feldspath :: Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish..
Front :: Front (v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east..
Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To direct, guide, or lead..
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