Answer:
What is often returned but is never borrowed?
A dragons tooth in a mortals hand, I kill, I maim, I divide the land.
Though easy to spot, when allowed to plume, It is hard to see, when held in a room.
The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring.
Soldiers line up spaced with pride. Two long rows lined side by side. One sole unit can decide, if the rows will unite or divide.
I am the kind of an ant that's good at math. What am I?