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The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

ts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

eudal nobles of Japan.daimyo The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes. Am. Cyc.

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two success…

To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. Is not to deal thy bread to the hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathe…

The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

ent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt.

To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend. What they have defaulted towards him as no king. Milton.

, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

To deal; to divide; to distribute. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.

To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.

rance, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.