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The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

e of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

An annulling; cancellation. [R.] Ayliffe.

A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

age, 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. -- Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. -- Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. -- Egg clavage. (Biol.) See…

the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

s. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

uster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected togethe…

One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

Coelenterata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.

Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. John Hall (1646).

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The column…

The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. "A comb of honey." Wyclif. When the bee doth leave her comb. Shak.