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t. [F. diverti -, stem of certain parts of divertir, divert: see divert.] To divert; amuse; entertain. But how shall we divertise ourselves till Supper be Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, i. 1. My haste, perhaps, is not so great but it might dispense with such a divertisement as I promise myself in your company. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 226. Brahma, the poem which so mystified the readers of O. W. Holmes, Emerson, p. 397. IMG:content-2929.png:[blocks in formation] 2 Sam. i. 23. Calamity, that severs worldly friendships, Could ne'er divide us. Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. 1. 3. In math .: (a) To perform the operation of [ divert i vet (di-vér'tiv), a. Tending to divert; diverting. For if the subject's of a serious kind, Her thoughts are manly, and her sense ref in'd; But if divertive , her expre ions fit, wo divide 22 by 7, the quotient will be 3 and the remain der 1. See division, 2. (6) To be a divisor of, with out leaving a remainder: as, “7 divides 21.” — 4. To cause to be separate; part by any means of disjunction, real or imaginary; make or keep distinct: as, the equator dirides the earth into two hemispheres. Let it [the firmament] divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6. Behold his goodly feet, Where one great cleft Devides two toes pointed with iron claws. to be divestible of that Boyle , Works, I. 248. The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 9. 6. To mark off into parts; make divisions on; graduate: as, to divide a sextant, a rule, etc. - 7. To disunite or cause to disagree in opinion or interest; make discordant. There shall be five in one house divided , three against two. Luke xii. 52. The learned World is very much divided upon Milton as to this Point. Add is on, Spectator, No. 285. tate or fluctuate between different motives or opinions. This way and that dividing the swift mind. Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 9. In music , to perform, as a melody, especially with variations or divisions. About the bed sweet musicke did divide. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 17. 10. In logic : (a) To separate (in thought or speech) ch) into parts any of the kinds of whole recognized by logic: as, to divide a conception into its elements (species into genus and dif- ference), an e ential whole into matter and form, or an integral whole into its integrate parts. The Law of Moses is divided into three parts, for either it is morall, judiciall, or cere mon i all. IMG:content-2930.png:[blocks in formation] Edging-and-dividing bench. See bench. To divide =Syn. 2. To sever, sunder, bar apart, divorce.-5. To allot, apportion, deal out, parcel out. II. in trans. 1. To become separated into parts; come or go apart; be disunited. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide . Shak ., Lear, i. 2. She seem'd to divide in a dream from a band of the blest. Tennyson, Maud, xxviii. 1. 2. To vote by division. See division , 1 (c). The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon . When the bill has been read a third time, the Speaker puts the question as to whether it shall pa . The House then divides ; those in favour of the bill pa out into one lobby, and those against it into another. The two divi- sions are counted by the "tellers." A. Buck land , Nat. Institutions, p. 28. divider nut, used for dividing lines, describing circles, etc.; compa es in general. See compa , 8.5. An attachment to a harvester for separating the swath of grain on the point of being cut from the portion left standing.-6. pl. In mining, same as buntons. - Bisecting dividers, dividers having the legs pivoted in such a way that the distance between one set points shall always be half of the distance between another set of points. Propor tional dividers, dividers with a sliding pivot, so that the opening between the legs at one end bears any desired proportion to that at the other. dividing-engine (di-vi'ding-enjin), n. An apparatus for producing the divisions of the scales or limbs of mathematical and philosophical instruments. Also called dividing - machine and graduation-engine. dividingly (di-vi'ding-li), adv. By division. dividing-machine (di-vi' ding-ma-shēn"), n. Same as dividing - engine.