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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Split

Split, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SPLIT (SPLITTED, rare); p. pr. & vb. n. SPLITTING.] [L. Ger. splitten, splitten, spletten, O. D. splitten, spletten, N. D. splijten, Dan. splitte, Icel. splita, N. H. Ger. spleizen, O. H. Ger. splizan.]

Sense 1. To divide longitudinally or lengthwise; to separate from end to end by force; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber; to split a board.

Sense 2. To tear asunder by violence; to burst; to rend.

Cold winter splits the rocks in twain. Dryden.

Sense 3. To divide or break into parts, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties.

Split pease, husked pease split for making soup, &c.

Split, v. i.

verbintransitive
  1. To part asunder; to suffer disruption; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
  2. To burst with laughter.

Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope. 3. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits upon a rock. Shak. 4. To lay open or divulge a secret; to betray confidence. [Low.] Where a gentleman acts like a gentleman, I'm not the man to go and split upon him for a word. De Quincey. To split on a rock, to fail; to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

Split, n.

noun

n. 1. A crack, rent, or longitudinal fissure.

  1. A breach or separation, as in a political party. [Colloq.]
  2. A splinter; a fragment. [Obs.] “Be crushed to splits.” Ford.
  3. (Weaving.) One thread in plain work.

Splĭt, p. a.

participial adjective

p. a. 1. Divided; fractured.

Sense 2. (Bot.) Divided deeply, and into a determinate number of segments; cleft. Lindley.

Split in two, split in three, &c., (Bot.), cleft into two, three, &c., parts respectively: bifid, trifid, &c.