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The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

A part, portion, or subdivision.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc. -- In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.

with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of diale…

A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariæ, but this word is not in general use.

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.] The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. Bp. Hall.

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.