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A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

d an infamous peace before a most just war. Knolles. Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; -- called also preference stock and preferential stock.

.), a factor which is a prime number. -- Prime figure (Geom.), a figure which can not be divided into any other figure more simple than itself, as a triangle, a pyramid, etc. -- Prime meridian (Astron.), the meridian from which longitude is reckoned, as the meridian of Greenwich or Washington. -- Prime minister, the…

mmand of a captured vessel. -- Prize medal, a medal given as a prize. -- Prize money, a dividend from the proceeds of a captured vessel, etc., paid to the captors. -- Prize ring, the ring or inclosure for a prize fight; the system and practice of prize fighting. -- To make prize of, to capture. Hawthorne.…

of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the…

garithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale. -- Proportional scales, compasses, dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately. [U.S.]

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata. [U.S.]

ice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

cess (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.

The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart. -- Py*lan"gi*al, a.

r, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.

A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coördinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

Divided into four parts.

e restitution; a quadruple alliance. Quadruple time (Mus.), that in which each measure is divided into four equal parts.