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Webster 1913 Edition
Diving
Div′ing
,Adj.
That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle
(Zool.)
, any beetle of the family
– Dytiscidæ
, which habitually lives under water; – called also water tiger
. Diving bell
, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
– Diving dress
. See
– Submarine armor
, under Submarine
. Diving stone
, a kind of jasper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Diving
DIVING
,ppr.
1.
Plunging or sinking into water or other liquid; applied to animals only.2.
Going deep into a subject.