CELL

n. v.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. "Cells or dependent priories." Milman.

3.
n.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

4.
n.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

5.
n.

Same as Cella.

6.
n.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

7.
n.

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

8.
v.

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.


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