Definition of split

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Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

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Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (a.) Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
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..
Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite..
Paddlewood :: Paddlewood (n.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks..
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)..
Sheepsplit :: Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
Hairsplitter :: Hairsplitter (n.) One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh..
Slive :: Slive (v. t.) To cut; to split; to separate.
Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
Froe :: Froe (n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
Spelding :: Spelding (n.) A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
Split :: Split (v. i.) To separate into parties or factions.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
Frowey :: Frowey (a.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber..
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Diffission :: Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.
Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..
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