5. A turning away from. “Adhesion to vice and aversion to goodness.”
6. To turn away or aside. “Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.”
7. Diverse ways are different ways—they turn apart.
8. The act of turning aside from a course; as the diversion of the mind from study.
9. A judgment or decree dissolving marriage, and thus turning husband and wife apart from each other.
10. To turn into another position; as, upside down, inside out, end for end, etc.
11. A perverse inclination is one thoroughly wrong or turned from the right.
12. To turn back; as to reverse an engine.
13. A transverse beam is one turned across others.
14. Capable of moving or turning around; as a versatile spindle; turning with ease from one thing to another; many sided; as, a versatile writer.