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The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart…

en armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

ich a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining const…

A subdivision of a department. [France]

A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.