A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.
A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. "Cells or dependent priories." Milman.
Any small cavity, or hollow place.
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
Same as Cella.
A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.
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