is now a rating in H.M. ships; he may be of any rank of seaman, but he
receives L1, 10_s._ 5_d._ per annum additional pay--one penny a-day for
risking life! Also, a common web-footed sea-bird of the genus
_Colymbus_.

DIVERGENT. A stream flowing laterally out of a river,
contradistinguished from convergent.

DIVERSION. A man[oe]uvre to attract, wholly or partially, the enemy's
attention away from some other part of the operations.

DIVIE-GOO. A northern term for the _Larus marinus_ or black-backed gull.

DIVINE SERVICE. Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on
a Sunday will allow of it.

DIVING-APPARATUS. Supplied to the flag-ship, and also a man with the
title of diver, to examine defects below water.

DIVING-BELL. Used in under-water operations for recovering treasure,
raising ships, anchors, &c.

DIVING-DRESS. India-rubber habiliments, the head-piece is of light metal
fitted with strong glass eyes, and an attached pliable pipe to maintain
a supply of air. The shoes are weighted.

DIVISION. A select number of ships in a fleet or squadron of men-of-war,
distinguished by a particular flag, pendant, or vane. A squadron may be
ranged into two or three divisions, the commanding officer of which is
always stationed in the centre. In a fleet the admiral divides it into
three squadrons, each of which is commanded by an admiral, and is again
divided into divisions; each squadron had its proper colours (now
distinguishing mark) according to the rank of the admiral who commanded
it, and each division its proper mast. The private ships carried
pendants of the same colour with their respective squadrons at the masts
of their particular divisions, so that the ships in the last division of
the blue squadron carried a blue pendant at their main topgallant-mast
head, the vane at the mizen. All these are superseded by the abolition
of the Red and Blue. The St. George's white ensign flag and pendant
alone are used.

DIVISIONS. The sub-classification of a ship's company under the
lieutenants. Also, a muster of the crew. Also, of an army, a force
generally complete in itself, commanded by a major-general, of an
average strength of eight or ten thousand men: it is itself composed of
several brigades, each of which again is composed of several battalions,
besides the complement of artillery, transport-corps, and generally also
of cavalry, for the whole. Of a battalion, a term sometimes used in
exercise, when the c