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Capable of being divided; divisible.

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

Divided; dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the…

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.

That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

One who divides or makes division. [Obs.] Sheldon.

The number by which the dividend is divided. Common divisor. (Math.) See under Common, a.

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

eces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played Hoyle.

Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.

The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

Divided into twelve parts.

To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.

tch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. -- Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into th…

The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.

The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.