the act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.-that which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.-the name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.-the line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.-the body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.-the pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. the direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.