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Parted; disunited; distributed.

Separately; in a divided manner.

Undivided. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

f arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

hesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

Same as Amalgam. They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics. Burke.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

on; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

ion or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

eight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.