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Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe.

An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.

The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. Slaty cleavage (Min.), cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which the planes of cleavage are not parallel to the p…

To cut; to split; to separate. [Obs.] Holland.

Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A knife used in splitting codfish. [Written also spalding knife.]

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron. [Scot.]

To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

] Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

A piece split off; a splinter.

To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

re the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. -- Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.