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one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.

tters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke.

ision, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

rc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. Sixteenth note (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.

Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided. Sixty-fourth note (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.

Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.

lations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.

l zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

y; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties. Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their husband as over their love. Chaucer.

ofuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious. I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelessness and care. Pope.

An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort. [Written also spignel.]

Covered with minute spiculæ, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.

One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

Divided; cleft.