bisect

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Next you shall make the letter C in its own square thus: Bisect the square a. b. c. d. by the horizontal line e. f. and in it let i. be the middle point.

From Of the Just Shaping of Letters by D?rer, Albrecht

Bisect these distances, and these again, till you have a very close row of tacks, as in Fig.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by Elverson, James

Bisect this base, and from the middle point draw a line at right angles to the base and towards the German lines.

From Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Bisect, bī-sekt′, v.t. to cut into two equal parts.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Bisect this line in O, and with O as a center and AO as radius, describe the semi-circle ADB.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John