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A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.

A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd).

A part, portion, or subdivision.

ll size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc. -- In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.

es, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

ed region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of di…

Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.

Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter.

Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits. -- n.

nder the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.

iary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

l families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics. Farrow. Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the p…

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.