SPLIT

To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle.

To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.] South.

To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.

To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.

To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits on the rock. Shak.

To separate into parties or factions. [Colloq.]

To burst with laughter. [Colloq.] Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope.

To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] Thackeray. To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

A crack, or longitudinl fissure.

A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. [Colloq.]

A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

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

Divided; cleft.

Divided deeply; cleft. Split pease, hulled pease split for making soup, etc. -- Split pin (Mach.), a pin with one end split so that it may be spread open to secure it in its place. -- Split pulley, a parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it. -- Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]