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To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.] The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. Bp. Hall.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.

Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.

Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.

To divide; to cleave in two. [Obs.] Spenser.

To part; to divide. [Obs.] Boyle.

tinued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24. -- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to continued quantity, as duration, or extension.

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.

One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller.

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.

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

To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

Divided into twos or threes.

To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.