Search the Dictionary

Division into laminæ, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. -- Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. -…

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.…

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

Secretly; darkly. [Obs.] A wondrous vision which did close imply The course of all her fortune and posterity. Spenser.

o be in disfavor. -- In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

h individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. [Obs.] There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university. Mede. But say from whence this new combustion springs. Dryden.

cheering; as, a comfortable hope. "Kind words and comfortable." Cowper. A comfortable provision made for their subsistence. Dryden.

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. A leader and commander to the people. Is. lv. 4.

), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.

A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

A making ready; provision. [Obs.]

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.