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One who deals out to each his share. Who made me a judge or a divider over you Luke xii. 14.

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draugh…

scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.

ion; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive. Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist. M. Arnold. The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction. Earle.

upport on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of pair of compasses or dividers.

garithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale. -- Proportional scales, compasses, dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.

To make a mark. With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer.

One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.