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Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.

Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.

An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance…

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a divisi…

Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. [R.] "Lodged in a small partition." Milton.

to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.

A composite plant (Anacyclus Pyrethrum) of the Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers. The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used as an irritant and sialogogue. Called also bertram, and pellitory of Spain.

me forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

Divided or cleft into five parts.

Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.

-- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster, formerly divided into eight reals. -- To give a piece of one's mind to, to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usual…

Divided into pieces.

th small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.

Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.

Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnæ.

One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.