Defn: To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.
SUNDER
Sun"der, v. i.
Defn: To part; to separate. [R.] Shak.
SUNDER
Sun"der, n. Etym: [See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder.]
Defn: A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." Ps. xlvi. 9.
SUNDER
Sun"der, v. t.
Defn: To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
SUNDEW
Sun"dew`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
SUNDIAL
Sun"di`al, n.