Definition of divide

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Divide (n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

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Bistoury :: Bistoury (n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface..
Average :: Average (v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss..
Apportion :: Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments..
Fork :: Fork (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks..
Sixth :: Sixth (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
Pool :: Pool (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners..
Cleavable :: Cleavable (a.) Capable of cleaving or being divided.
Saltirewise :: Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center..
Bipartible :: Bipartible (a.) Capable of being divided into two parts.
Twin :: Twin (v. t.) To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob..
Sever :: Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg..
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Duodecimfid :: Duodecimfid (a.) Divided into twelve parts.
Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..
Spicknel :: Spicknel (n.) An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort..
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question..
Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
Third :: Third (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish..
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
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