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and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

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

- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

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 defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.

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

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.

n 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 stud…

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.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

To hawk or peddle provisions.

The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.