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; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.

A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.

The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. [Written also ileon, and ilium.]

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility. Holland.

A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. That individuals die,…

Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable.

Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings. -- Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. -- Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate whic…

To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect- eating bats.

o which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.

Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit. Divisions hinder the common interest and public good. Sir W. Temple. When interest calls of all her sneaking train. Pope.

pon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x. Inverse figures (Geom.), two figures, such that each point of either figure is inv…