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The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

tal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.

A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

re-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun. Forelock bolt, a bolt retained by a key, gib, or cotter passing through a slot. -- Forelock hook (Rope Making), a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight.…

e than four feet across the outspread wings. See Fruit bat. -- Fox bolt, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. -- Fox brush (Zoöl.), the tail of a fox. -- Fox evil, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. -- Fox grape (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape (Vi…

An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]

gar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).

By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. Knight.

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.] Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]

Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable. Ure.…

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.