div I dend, divident

& a. [Lat. divi dendum =that which may or is to be divided or shared; gerund of divi do =to divide; Fr. dividende; Ital. dividendo.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: *1. A share, a portion distributed or allotted. "Shall I set there So deepe a share, (Dear wounds) and only now In sorrow draw no dividend with you?" Crashaw: Char it as Nimia . 2. In the same sense as II. 3. II. Technically: 1. Arith .: A number which has to be divided by another: thus, if we have to divide 20 by 4, 20 is the dividend , and 4 the divisor . 2. Bankruptcy : The fractional part of the a ets of a bankrupt which is paid to the creditor in proportion to the amount of the debt which he has proved against the estate of the debtor. 3. Comm.: The sum periodically payable as interest on loans, debentures, ., or that periodically distributed as profit on the capital of a railway or other company. The sum to be divided is broken up into as many portions as there are bondholders or shareholders to claim them, and the fractional part falling to each holder bears the same proportion to the whole dividend as the amount of stock or shares he holds bears to the whole capital from which the dividend is derived. Bondholders are said to receive their dividends, and the proce of paying them is called, in banks and other offices, the payment of dividends. ( Bithell .) B. As adj .: Bearing or yielding a dividend. "As regards dividend stocks, the yield per cent. at the present prices is based upon the dividend of the past year."-London Daily Chronicle.