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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.

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One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.

Dividing into two parts. -- n.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

ive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

made the covatry, and man made the town. Cowper. Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

ng in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the exe…

line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.