Divide

·vi To break friendship; to fall out.

II. Divide ·vt To subject to arithmetical division.

III. Divide ·vi To have a share; to Partake.

IV. Divide ·vt To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

V. Divide ·vi To cause separation; to Disunite.

VI. Divide ·vt To separate into species;

— said of a genus or generic term.

VII. Divide ·noun A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

VIII. Divide ·vt To mark divisions on; to Graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

IX. Divide ·vt To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

X. Divide ·vi To be separated; to Part; to Open; to go asunder.

XI. Divide ·vt To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to Sunder; to separate into parts.

XII. Divide ·vt 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.

XIII. Divide ·vt To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.

XIV. Divide ·vt To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to Distribute; to mete out; to Share.

XV. Divide ·vi To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.