a word used technically as a noun in America and the British colonies for any high ridge between two valleys, forming a water-parting; a dividing range. For special senses of the verb "to divide" (Lat. di-videre, the latter part of the ward coming from a root seen in Lat. vidua, Eng. "widow"), meaning generally to split up in two or more parts, see Division. In a parliamentary sense, to divide (involving a separation into two sides, Aye and No) is to take the sense of the House by voting on the subject before it.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Divide'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/d/divide.html. 1910.

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