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Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.

Of or pertaining to distribution. Huxley.

A distributer. [R.] Dickens.

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Quality of being distributive.

A machine for distributing type.

With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.

A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]

A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.

See Hagbut.

weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [Written also holibut.]

See Hagbut.

See Halibut.

An imbuing. [Obs.]

Incapable of being rebutted. Coleridge.