A woman entered a fruit store and said to the clerk, "I want to purchase some fruit for my sick husband."
"We have some very nice sweet cherries on sale for a dollar a box," said the clerk.
She looked them over and decided to take a box. Handing them to the clerk she added, "Have they been sprayed with poison?"
Replied the clerk, "No ma’am. You will have to purchase that at the drug store."
—v. (-ding) 1 (often foll. By in, into) separate into parts; break up; split.
- (often foll. By out) distribute; deal; share.
- a separate (one thing) from another. B classify into parts or groups.
- cause to disagree.
- a find how many times (a number) contains or is contained in another (divide 20 by 4; divide 4 into 20). B (of a number) be contained in (a number) without remainder (4 divides into 20).
- parl. Vote (by members entering either of two lobbies) (the house divided). —n. - dividing line.
- watershed. [latin divido -vis-]
DIVINE
—adj. (diviner, divinest) 1 a of, from, or like god or a god. B sacred.
- colloq. Excellent; delightful. —v. (-ning) 1 discover by intuition or guessing.
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