SPLIT, v.t. pret. and pp. split. [G. See Spalt.]

1. To burst; to part asunder; to suffer disruption; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them. Glass vessels often split when heated too suddenly.
2. To burst with laughter. Each had a gravity would make you split. – Pope.
3. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. We were driven upon a rock, and the ship immediately split. – Swift. To split on a rock, to fail; to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated. – Spectator.

1. To divide longitudinally or lengthwise; to separate a thing from end to end by force; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber; to split a board. It differs from crack. To crack is to open or partially separate; to split is to separate entirely.
2. To rend; to tear asunder by violence; to burst; as, to split a rock or a sail. Cold winter splits the rocks in twain. – Dryden.
3. To divide; to part; as, to split a hair. The phrases, to split the heart, to split a ray of light, are now inelegant and obsolete, especially the former. The phrase, to split the earth, is not strictly correct.
4. To dash and break on a rock; as, a ship stranded and split. – Mar. Dict.
5. To divide; to break into discord; as, a people split into parties.
6. To strain and pain with laughter; as, to split the sides.

1. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
   
   

   Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

2. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
3. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
   
   
   [Colloq.]
4. Divided; cleft.
5. Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl.
   
   
   (b) (Weaving)
6. Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc.
   
   
   (b)
7. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
   
   

   A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle.

8. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
   
   

   The ship splits on the rock. Shak.

9. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
10. Divided deeply; cleft.
    
    

    Split pease, hulled pease split for making soup, etc. -- Split pin (Mach.), a pin with one end split so that it may be spread open to secure it in its place. -- Split pulley, a parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it. -- Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]

11. Short for Split shot or stroke.
12. 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.
13. To separate into parties or factions.
    
    
    [Colloq.]
14. Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
15. The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind.
    
    
    [Cant or Slang]
16. 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.

17. To burst with laughter.
    
    
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    Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope.

18. A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
19. A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass.
    
    
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20. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
    
    
    [Slang] Thackeray.
21. the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
22. to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
    
    

    To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

23. the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.