A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed
water.
Boyle.
3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to
separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
[Colloq.] South.
4. (Chem.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with
up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
Split, v. i. 1. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels
split by the freezing of water in them.