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noun

Share n.

1.

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

2.

The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed.

Share n.

1.

A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.

2.

Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. "My share of fame."

3.

Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.

4.

The pubes; the sharebone. (Obs.)

To go shares, to partake; to be equally concerned.

Share and share alike, in equal shares.

verb

Share v. t. (past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)

1.

To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide. "Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger."

2.

To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another. "While avarice and rapine share the land."

3.

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. (Obs.) "The shared visage hangs on equal sides."

Share v. i. To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others. "A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father."

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"Share" Quotes from Famous Books

... add that the poor old cat which we had brought home had always a liberal share of our good things; and so well was it looked after, especially by Peterkin, that it recovered much of its former strength, and seemed to improve in sight as well ...

— The Coral Island • R.M. Ballantyne

... British possession on the model of India or Ceylon, but rather in that of an enlarged cosmopolitanism, which, whilst discarding all the obstructive fetters of the cumbersome old international system, will tend to amalgamate all the inhabitants of the Nile Valley and enable them all alike to share in the government of their native ...

— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... same cause in riper years. They are more disinterested and sincere. They come with the spring of life, root deep into the heart, and cling with irradicable tenacity through life. We find in mature life dear friends, friends who will share the all they have with you, who will for you hazard even life, and you love them—but not as you love the boys who were at school with you, who ran with you wild through the woods, when you hunted the squirrel and trapped the quail. When fortuitous time forces your separation, and long intervening ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... abundant crops; and since they completely enclose the polar area they are necessarily served first. The great emissaries for carrying off the surplus of their aqueous riches, would then appear to be superfluous constructions, nor is it likely that the share in those riches due to the canals and oases, intricately dividing up the wide, dry, continental plains, ...

— Is Mars Habitable? • Alfred Russel Wallace

... but there is just so much that I can stand—and you have passed the limit. There is hardly a man in this class who hasn't written at least one theme on the glory that is Sanford. As you know, I am a Sanford man myself, and I have my share of affection for the college, but you have reached an ecstasy of chauvinism that makes Chauvin's affection for Napoleon seem ...

— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

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