divide

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1. 1.2. 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. Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i.
2. 2.3. 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. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii.
3. 3.4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii.
4. 4.Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.(Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
7. 7.(Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
8. 8.(Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
9. 9.(Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] Spenser.
10. 10.To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile.
11. 11.To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.
12. 12.To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.
13. 13.To have a share; to partake. Shak.
14. 14.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. The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon.
15. 15.A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 2. 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. Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i called?
• What is 4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii called?
• What is every family became now divided within itself. Prescott called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to subject to arithmetical division called?
• What is to separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term called?
• What is to mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant called?
• What is to play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] Spenser called?
• What is to be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile called?
• What is to cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft called?
• What is a dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed called?