To cleave or rend lengthwise; separate or part in two from end to end forcibly or by cutting; rive; cleave.To tear asunder by violence; burst; rend: as, to split a rock or a sail.To divide; break into parts.To cause division or disunion in; separate or cause to separate into parts or parties, as by discord.In leather manufacturing, to divide (a skin) parallel with one of its surfaces. See splitting-machine.In coal-mining, to divide (a current of air passing through any part of a mine) so that various districts, as required, shall be supplied.= Syn. 1–3. Tear, Cleave, etc. See rend.To break or part lengthwise; suffer longitudinal division; become divided or cleft: as, timber that splits easily.To part asunder; suffer disruption; burst; break in pieces: as, the sails split in the gale.Figuratively, to burst with laughter.To differ; separate; disagree.To divulge secrets; inform upon one's accomplices; betray confidence.To vote for candidates of opposite parties. See to split one's votes, under I.To run or walk with long strides.n. A splinter; a fragment; a sliver.n. One of a number of short flat strips of steel, cane, etc., placed in vertical parallel order at small distances from one another in a frame to form the reed of a loom. The threads of the web are passed through the splits, which beat up the weft to compact the fabric.n. An osier, or willow twig, split so as to have one side flat, used in basket-making in certain parts of the work.n. A lath-like strip of bog-fir used in the rural districts of Ireland as a candle or torch.n. plural In leather manufacturing, skins which have been separated into two layers by the cutting-machine.n. A crack, rent, or longitudinal fissure.n. A division or separation, as in a political party; a schism; a breach: as, there is a split in the cabinet.n. Same as split stroke. See split, p. a.n. In printing, a small spindle placed below the carriage of a printing-press, about which leather belts wind in opposite directions and lead to opposite ends of the carriage. By turning this spindle by a crank attached, the carriage is moved in or out.n. plural Among acrobats, the feat of going down on the ground with each leg extended laterally: as, to do the splits.n. An occasion for splitting or dividing that which could otherwise be claimed by one person: thus, in faro, a split occurs when two cards of the same value appear together, and the better loses half of his stake.n. A split fish: as, Nova Scotia splits: a trade-name.n. A division of the air-current in a coalmine.n. A small or half bottle of aërated water; also, a half glass of brandy or the like.Divided; separated; rent; fractured.In botany, deeply divided into segments; cleft.Opened, dressed, and cured, as fish: opposed to round.In agriculture, same as cleave, 4.In faro, to divide (a bet). When two cards of the same denomination come out of the box on the same turn, the banker splits all bets on that card, taking half the amount for himself.n. In glass-cutting, an acute-angled cut made by a mitered wheel.In whist, noting a hand which contains four trumps and three of each of the plain suits.In glass manufacturing, said of a cut made by a mitered wheel and showing an acute angle.
