·noun Direction; guide.
II. Directory ·adj Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
III. Directory ·noun A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
IV. Directory ·noun A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
V. Directory ·noun A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; ·esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.