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A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.

A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra.

A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

To tear asunder; to break in pieces. The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces. Burke.

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped`, a.

A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." Shak.

One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.

A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.

g to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written also heptarch.]

An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach. New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak. After the st…

A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii. -- He*ro`di*o"nine, a.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.