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Covered with minute spiculæ, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.

One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

tallic lead brought to a spongy form by reduction of lead salts, or by compressing finely divided lead; -- used in secondary batteries and otherwise. -- Sponge tree (Bot.), a tropical leguminous tree (Acacia Farnesiana), with deliciously fragrant flowers, which are used in perfumery. -- Toilet sponge, a very fine and…

spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.

Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.

of (a mast) in its step; to erect. To step off, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.

A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. Dryden.

evelopment succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ, or young medusæ.

The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.

Having dorsal vertebræ with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.

earing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.

The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day. Bacon.

, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

imp. & p. p. of Sink. Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

More than decompound; divided many times.

rse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.