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Divided into many parts; having several parts.

Divided into many branches.

Divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

ng apparatus which endows animals with sensation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the sympathetic. See Brain, Nerve, Spinal cord, under Spinal, and Sympathetic system, under Sympathetic, and Illust. in…

(Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. -- New style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Easte…

Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.

Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. Hook.

One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coördinate planes.

zoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcæ, Odontotormæ, and Saururæ.

Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. The church is therefore one, though the members may be many. Bp. Pearson

onors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

t genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.

Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.