Hate is of all things the mightiest divider.
Milton.
Money, the great divider of the world.
Swift.
4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
Di*vid"ing (?), a. 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.
Di*vid"ing*ly (?), adv. By division.
||Di"vi-di"vi (?), n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A small tree of tropical America (Cæsalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
Di*vid"u*al (?; 135), a. [See Dividuous.] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.