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Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2..

Spitchcock :: Spitchcock (v. t.) To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat..

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..

Chip :: Chip (n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets..

Rift :: Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds..

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..

Laminable :: Laminable (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip..

Septicidal :: Septicidal (a.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Splitter :: Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck.

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical..

Frowey :: Frowey (a.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber..

Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (n.) The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

Schizocarp :: Schizocarp (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

Split-tail :: Splitfeet (n. pl.) The Fissipedia.

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose)..

Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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