DIVIDE  , 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 word 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 .